GHR Foundation
  • Domains of Work
    • Global >
      • Children in Families
      • Prepare The Future
    • Local >
      • Catholic Education
      • Twin Cities Racial Equity (TCRE)
    • Biomedical >
      • Alzheimer's Initiative
  • News
  • About Us
    • The Foundation
    • History & Legacy
    • Team >
      • Staff
      • Committees
      • Board
    • Programs in Transition >
      • BridgeBuilder >
        • Overview
        • 2017 Top Ideas >
          • Peace Direct
          • BioCarbon Engineering
          • LIFT Chicago
          • Local Youth Corner Cameroon
          • NaTakallam
        • 2018 Top Ideas >
          • This is My Backyard
          • Found in Translation
          • Producers Direct
          • War Child Canada
          • My Choices Foundation
        • 2019 Top Ideas >
          • Top Manta
          • Five One Labs
          • SAMA for All
          • Talent Beyond Boundaries
          • FaithAction
      • Inter-Religious Action
      • Sister Support
      • COVID-19 Response
    • FAQs
    • Grants & Financials
  • Contact

Global Sisters Report: International gathering will address reforming care for children

11/23/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
A nun is pictured in a file photo embracing a child in a nursery school at a shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel. The International Union of Superiors General in 2020 launched the global initiative Catholic Care for Children International to support family- and community-based care for children. (CNS/Debbie Hill)
In late November 2022, Catholic sisters representing Catholic Care for Children in six countries will gather in Rome to further their efforts to see all children growing up in safe, nurturing families.  

From Global Sisters Report: 

“Millions of children worldwide live in institutions. Catholic Care for Children (CCCI) officials say 80 percent of them have a parent or close relative, but are placed there because of poverty.
‘No child should live in an institution because the family is poor or overwhelmed by the difficulty of accessing basic health services, social protection, or education for their child,”' says Sister Niluka Perera, CCCI coordinator.  Perera made comments in a statement announcing CCCI's new website, adding that the site will enable sisters and religious institutes to easily share resources with each other, the public, and the variety of organizations involved in the global care movement. 

According to the website, the initiative involves 116 communities of women religious who have already transitioned 2544 children living in institutions to family or family-like environments."

Read more on GHR partner Catholic Care for Children International, a global initiative to reform the way women and men religious care for children who are outside of family care. 

Through our Children in Families (CIF) initiative, GHR supports Catholic sisters and other key faith actors who are championing care reform. Learn more about our work.
0 Comments

    Categories

    All
    A4
    Alzheimer's
    Alzheimer's Association
    BridgeBuilder
    C2N
    Catholic Schools
    Children In Families
    COVID 19
    COVID-19
    Develop Diagnostics
    DIAN Primary Prevention
    DIAN-TU
    Education
    Global Development
    Higher Education
    Inter-Religious Action
    La Jolla Institute
    Mayo Clinic
    Mayo Clinic Study Of Aging
    NIH-NIA
    Observational Studies
    Prepare The Future
    Prevention Trials
    Safeguarding
    Sister Support
    Twin Cities Racial Equity

    RSS Feed

CONNECT WITH US

NEWS  |  JOBS  | ​ CONTACT  
Privacy Policy  |  Terms of Use
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
©2023 GHR FOUNDATION
All Rights Reserved.