6 AUGUST, 2024. Maria Ehikioya SSL is the coordinator of the Samaritan Project at the Lagos State Government Rehabilitation Centre in Majidun, Lagos. A team of Samaritan Project volunteers provides food, clothing, medicine and toiletries to the approximately 1,500 men, women and children from all over Nigeria and neighbouring countries at the centre, many of whom are homeless, have physical or mental disabilities or addictions. Last May, Maria secured freedom for Lukmon Alani, who had been homeless 20 years ago when he was picked up state scouts for vagrancy and placed in the Lagos State Government Rehabilitation Centre. After 20 years of living in the Centre, Sr Maria was able to trace his family and reunite them.

6 AUGUST, 2024. Patricia Ojo SSL and Ann Concannon SSL from the Central Leadership Team went on visitation to Ethiopia earlier this year, where they met the two sisters based in Ethiopia Maureen Long’ep SSL and Perpetua Apo SSL, and discussed their realities and the challenges for the Mission in Dawhan given the ongoing security issues in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

6 AUGUST, 2024. We are delighted for you to meet the six sisters from the provincialate community. Two of the Provincial Leadership are based here (Christiana Kure SSL and Adefunke Babalola SSL), three of the sisters are involved in provincial administration (Grace Abaukaka SSL, Juliana Ajayi SSL, Fidelia Amoko SSL) and one student sister lives in the provincialate (Philomena William SSL).

6 AUGUST, 2024. The AAVE Group and the AIDS Ministry team attended the annual Oxen Parade in Trindade, Goiás last month, to encourage the faithful to take an HIV/AIDS test, aiming to reduce infection rates and break the stigma and prejudice of HIV/AIDS.

27 JUNE, 2024. The four remaining sisters in the English Mission - Mary Moran SSL, Margaret Healy SSL, Philomena Morris SSL, and Blathnaid McCauley SSL – recently gathered at the Church of Our Lady and St Etheldreda in Newmarket, for a Thanksgiving and Remembrance Mass, ahead of their final departure from England and relocation to Ireland later this year. They were joined by Patricia Ojo SSL and Ann Concannon SSL from the Central Leadership team and parishioners, friends and associates.

27 JUNE, 2024. Congratulations to the St Louis School of Midwifery, Zonkwa, Nigeria, who have recently been upgraded to a College of Nursing Sciences, after many years of hard work to get it to the standard required for upgrading. The school hopes to commence the training programme for the National Diploma/Higher Diploma in Nursing in October 2024.