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Dear Sisters and Friends,
This Christmas, would you like to give a Christmas Gift that makes a difference?
The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions Christmas Catalogue provides you with a range of gifts for this Christmas Season. When you choose one of these gifts for your family and friends, your contribution helps the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions to assist some of the less fortunate, neglected and marginalised people of our world. Just imagine their joy when they recognise and experience that
your gift will make such a difference in their lives.
By purchasing a Gift That Makes a Difference from the Christmas Catalogue, you will be entering into partnership with the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in these life-changing and empowering projects.
From the enclosed catalogue, you will see how your gift will enhance and be a catalyst for change in the lives of deprived children, people and families in ways that many of us take for granted.
The four gifts are:
Education for tribal children, India Central; Support to physically challenged persons, India South;
Provision of water harvesting tanks, Philippines; Nutrition for mothers and babies, Senegal.
Once you complete the attached Order Form and return it to the address indicated, you would receive a Gift Voucher and a Christmas Card which you can then personalise for your loved ones.
Thank you for your generosity in giving a Gift That Makes a Difference!
Christmas blessings of peace and joy to you and your family.
The RNDM mission in Odisha serves the marginalized and tribal children and women of Kuchinda district. The Sisters engage themselves in the ministries of education and social development. They run nine Supplementary Education Centers in Kuchinda, for over 200 children from remote villages who attend these classes. Our main focus is to impart basic quality education to the children who are deprived of good educational opportunities. Through these centers, they gain literacy and are empowered to join formal school. Women are also given capacity building training and attend awareness programs to become leaders and claim the rights of their children from the government schemes.
RNDM Sisters in Almel have been working for physically challenged children and supporting their families. This project will provide them with basic needs, medicines and nutritious food that helps them to live a healthy and dignified life. The support will reduce the burden on the poor parents, who are daily wage labourers, struggling to survive. Due to the parents’ low economic conditions, many families consider that the children with disabilities are burdensome and therefore, are often neglected. Many such children suffer from malnutrition and succumb to other illnesses leading to early deaths.
The Menubo Dulangan is an indigenous tribal community in Kulaman, living at a subsistence level depending on good weather conditions for their farm-based livelihood. Most of these families have been displaced to the interior parts of the land and they live with less access to education, health and other facilities. There is no electricity and ground water in most villages, they depend on rain water for sanitation and hygiene. The project supports the Sisters’ initiative to install home rainwater harvesting tanks for these families in remote villages.
RNDM Sisters work in different villages in Ndondol, to fight against malnutrition. This project supports mothers and babies to improve their health. Selected women’s groups prepare nutritious food with local cereals and enriched flour. Mothers bring their children with severe malnutrition to the centre where they are given the prepared food, milk and vitamins necessary to boost their health until the children get back to their normal weight. Some women will be trained to check the record of the babies’ monthly weight, to see their improvement. The project will also include the purchase of basic furniture and weighing machines for the smooth running of the center.