Maryknoll Lay Missioners

MAP

Where the Compassion of the Faithful Transforms Lives

MKLM Missioner Provides School Supplies and Tuition Funds for Bolivian Student

Luisa desperately wanted to attend school, but knew her family could not afford the tuition. Luisa and her mother turned to the Centro Vicente Canas community center (CVC) for help. MKLM missioner Lauren Vater runs the educational scholarship program at CVC and saw to it that Luisa received the funds she needed.

Now, Luisa is a student of hotel and restaurant management at the local polytechnic school.

Thank you for keeping Lauren in service to the people of Bolivia. With your continued support, she could provide even more kids with the means for an education.

MKLM missioner Kathy, left, works with Penha to develop community intervention plans that address domestic violence. As a student of Kathy’s prevention courses, Penha was able to break the cycle of abuse. With continued support from MKLM donors, more women victims could be saved.

Abuse Victim Becomes Trained Advocate
Missioner teaches Brazilian woman to end violence to herself and to others

Daily beatings...a horror no one should suffer. In partnership with an MKLM missioner, one Brazilian woman has escaped her ugly past and created a promising future for herself and for other women.

Penha Ferreira used to suffer from domestic violence at the hands of her husband.

Now, she is a community leader and municipal social worker trained to help other women.

With your support, MKLM could continue to train more community leaders in anti-domestic violence advocacy.

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