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A Woman for Her Time
By Stan and Moya Mac Eoin
The authors, husband and wife, are retired teachers who live in Kinvara, County Galway, Ireland, on the southern side of the famed Galway Bay. Stan has been a lifelong friend of your editor since they became classmates in O’Connell Schools, Dublin, in Grade Three. One of the schools in Dublin that sends students to help in Kolkata, Stanhope Street, is where your editor spent four years in the Boys’ Kindergarten.
‘SISTERS, YOUR GOD IS GREAT!’
By Sister Bernardisa Pacis SSpS
Sister Bernardisa, from Bacarra, Ilocos Norte, went to
When I objected to a 200 kilowatt generator shed being built in the corner just below my bedroom window in Nihon Apartments, my complaints fell on deaf ears. For two years we put up with vibrations, air pollution and deafening noise every time the generator was turned on during ‘brown-outs.’ I finally met with the Apartments committee members. The response? ‘No way out. To transfer the generator to another place would prove very expensive.’
And then, I saw the whole world
By Sister Concepcion Madduma ICM
Over two decades ago, Sr Ching Madduma got a scholarship to the University of the Philippines to pioneer studies for people with mental disabilities. Little did she realize that she was entering the world of people who lived in shadows. And that became her mission.
I, Kamal, Am Free
By: Sr. Ching Madduma, ICM
It is hard to believe that there are 200 million “Untouchables” in the subcontinent of India, people treated as less than human beings. There is also another group even less visible who are often retarded as even worse off-the seriously handicapped and mentally retarded. Sr. Ching has worked to bring these people out of what she calls ‘the valley of shadow.’ Here she brings us up to date on the story of her little friend, Kamal.
I, Kamal, Am Free
By: Sr. Ching Madduma, ICM
It is hard to believe that there are 200 million “Untouchables” in the subcontinent of India, people treated as less than human beings. There is also another group even less visible who are often retarded as even worse off-the seriously handicapped and mentally retarded. Sr. Ching has worked to bring these people out of what she calls ‘the valley of shadow.’ Here she brings us up to date on the story of her little friend, Kamal.
Free from Chains
I, Kamal am free! How I wish he could have spoken these words! Nonetheless, I was touched when our little 12 year old boy from the local unit for children with mental retardation came to our convent compound and grinned broadly as he gestured awkwardly to show that his chains of oppression were gone.
Tuning In
Tuning In
By Sr. Nihita Maria, SSpSAP
A group of Pink Sisters from the Philippines Sr. Nihita Maria, Sr. Maria Cecilia, pink describe their habit not their politics- started a House of Adoration in Bangalore, India. But before they got there, while still in Bombay, they set up a unique friendship with a Hindu Brahmin Professor.
Now Read on:
His name was Sri Phadnis…
We had apprehensions concerning our future relationship with the Hindu Brahmin Professor who taught us Hindu and Sanskrit. But our fears were quickly dispelled at our first meeting.
Kamal means Lotus
By Sr. Ching Madduma, ICM
Sr. Ching, a Filipino missionary in India, continues her beautiful story about bringing handicapped people out of the land of shadows. She discovered Kamal, when he was four years old, chained up and almost abandoned. Slowly She began to work with him – removed his chains and introduced him to the wonders of water. Read on:
First Unit
In the same year I met Kamal, I opened the first unit for persons with mental handicaps, at Sarnath Normal School compound. Kamal was enrolled in this unit.
With other Children
It was different environment and a great adjustment for him to be with other children. Each day he insisted on coming first to our compound, so that I would take him along to the unit.
