Cameroon

At the CERRA-Africa Global Research Network Symposium in Nairobi, Kenya, HESA alumnae and ASEC staff presented impactful research, highlighting the vital yet often-overlooked contributions of Catholic sisters to sustainable development across Africa and beyond.

Sr. Vera Bi Kiekiseeh Otia, HHCJ, principal of SPICOTEC in Cameroon, leverages her ASEC education to expand access to technical and vocational training, empowering youth to become entrepreneurs and job creators.

African Sisters: Leaders In Action (ASLA) investment in alumnae projects has allowed ASEC Alumnae Sr. Caroline Nanyi Acha, SST, Sr. Sophia Agnes Asiimwe, MSMMC, and Sr. Mathabo Jacintha Sefali, SCIM to make an impact in their communities.

Sr. Cordelia Uche Anikwem uses the skills she learned in SLDI to write a grant proposal to provide necessary medical support to pregnant women to help reduce maternal and neonatal morbidities and mortality.

We measure the impact of education through qualitative data by interviewing ASEC sisters, both those current students and alumnae. Through learning their stories, we can connect the dots between education and transformation, both within the sisters and their communities.

From helping Cameroonian refugees to securing grants to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Sr. Virgilia has helped many with the skills she acquired through ASEC.

Catholic sisters in Africa see how using their education to help just one person can have an exponential positive effect on their communities.

Catholic sisters in Africa are using their education to dream up creative human development projects that help their local communities.

Catholic sisters in Africa are using crop and animal farming to sustainably support their local communities.

Sr. Leonarda has incorporated what she’s learned about leadership, finances and accountability into her ministry work to better serve the disabled and marginalized.

How Catholic nuns translate computer and tech skills into enhanced social services for Africa’s poor and vulnerable.

Catholic nuns in Cameroon, Africa are using their financial and leadership training to help those displaced by war and violence.

Catholic sisters have become a critical component of emergency response among local African communities in crisis.

4 Catholic sisters whose service work is helping to prevent and reduce sexual and gender-based violence in Africa.

African nuns are reaching major academic achievements while amplifying their influence on some of the biggest challenges facing African society.

Catholic nuns from ASEC programs are using their educational training to support people with disabilities at facilities throughout Africa.

Sr. Caroline uses her ASEC education to provide quality education for children and economic opportunities for marginalized women in rural Cameroon.

Catholic Sisters in Africa are using education to empower women and work toward gender equality.

In Africa, severe food insecurity and undernourishment is on the rise. But, educated Nuns are changing that reality for the communities they serve.

SLDI and HESA alumnae are at the forefront of social change and the promotion of justice, as they address injustice in their communities.

Sisters are dedicated to solving the serious environmental issues facing Africa today, leaving the world in better condition than how they received it.

African Sisters are practicing sustainable agriculture and farming to solve problems like malnutrition and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.

Sr. Louisa is using skills learned in ASEC’s SLDI program to bring holiday cheer to displaced children in war-torn Cameroon.

ASEC educates religious women who are renewing hope in Africa for poor and marginalized communities. Catholic Sisters provide hope in Africa many people living who are afraid to begin life anew due to disease, poverty and lack of resources.

Sr. Yvette’s closed loop recycling project increases food production, manages waste and lifts the economic burden from her school during times of crisis in Cameroon.

The sustainable farming / biogas project pays a portion of primary school teacher salaries, fights climate change and cuts down cost of living for the community.

Several participants of SLDI workshops are using their education to help their congregations and communities.

Sr. Veronica is using the skills she learned from the SLDI program to turn one village’s reality into a possibility.

Sr. Gwen has made it her mission in life to ensure that inmates in Cameroonian prisons are given second chances.

Sr. Vanaja and her organization identify Cameroonian trafficking victims in the Middle East and bring them home. On June 27, 2017, SLDI alumna Sr. Vanaja received an award in recognition of her unrelenting efforts to combat modern slavery.

Good customer service learned in alumnae meeting produced increased turnout at St. Martin de Porres hospital Njinikom, Cameroon.