Each year, from March 8-14th, Misean Cara celebrates Catholic Sisters Week by recognising and celebrating the contributions that Missionary Sisters have made, and continue to make, around the world. Through long-term commitment to communities in need – sometimes over decades- Missionary Sisters work for the common good and dignity of all people with development projects …
Misean Cara joins UNESCO in celebrating International Women’s Day 2024 (March 8th), under the theme Invest in women: Accelerate progress. Throughout our 20-year history, Misean Cara has supported the projects of Irish missionary congregations, many of them with education and jobs training for women and girls at the centre of the efforts. The Power of …
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By Misean Cara Project Officer for Human Rights and Advocacy, Éamonn Casey Tuesday 30th January brought the launch by Talitha Kum, the global inter-congregational network of more than 6,000 religious sisters working against human trafficking, of its new ‘Walking in Dignity’ app to promote peer to peer awareness, mobilisation, and protection among young people. Young …
For the 2024 International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Misean Cara Project Officer for Education, Tom Carroll, writes about the progress being made by Misean Cara’s members to advance access to STEM education and careers for women and girls in developing countries, and the potential this has to change individual lives and whole …
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Human Rights Day marks the annual challenge to build towards dignity, freedom and justice By Eamonn Casey, Misean Cara Human Rights & Advocacy Project Officer Human Rights Day is celebrated on December 10th each year to help make people aware of the rights and freedoms inherent to them as human beings – regardless of race, …
Pope Francis’s new initiative for the planet, the papal letter Laudate Deum released on Wednesday 4th October, is another Call to Action, following on from the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ – since, as the Holy Father said, “our responses have not been adequate”. Laudate Deum is another, more urgent call to Catholics, faith leaders and …
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Read our guest blog on the website of the Irish Forum for Global Education! Click here to read about the contributions of missionaries to global education and the unique ways they enable access to quality, inclusive and equitable education to the furthest behind, a critical pathway to empowering people in developing countries to achieve a …
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“Because I can read, I can take care of myself now. After being in the literacy programme, I live in a world of light, because I can see and recognise letters and words!”-Maria de Jesus, Brazil Maria de Jesus – Brazil Project: Literacy project for young people, adults and the elderly Misean Cara Member: Religious …
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Prepared by Éamonn Casey, Misean Cara Human Rights and Advocacy Officer, and Cédric Chatelanat, Institutional Development Manager for the Franciscans International, the blog ‘Where Trees Fall, Communities Rise’ highlights the environmental and human rights impact of foreign logging operations in the Solomon Islands and the research, community outreach, and international advocacy spearheaded by the Franciscans …
Today, on International Women’s Day, meet some of the women and girls participating in Misean Cara member projects who are empowering themselves through new job skills and improved livelihoods; returning to or completing their formal education; or overcoming the injustice of Gender Based Violence to become community advocates for other women. Misean Cara and its members …