“Each one is different but each one has received an invitation from Jesus”.
When I was 12 years of age I was travelling with my mother and my two sisters and two brothers in a train from Durban to Pietermaritzburg (Natal, South Africa). A thought or a voice came to me “When I pass here again I will be a nun”. I was quiet for a time and then I forgot about it.
South Africa: Working with Children with HIV and AIDS
The impact of HIV and AIDS on children, extended families and communities is devastating.
Sister Francis Krige is part of a team, working with the South African Bishops' Conference, which tries to bring about change in the lives of children whose parents have died.
The team has piloted an "After School Care Programme" in four places.
In this section of the website - Real Life
Encounter - we would like to introduce you to some of the communities
that make up our congregation. At different times we will focus on a particular
community or on a particular sister and hope to offer some insight into who we
are, how we live and what we do.