Peace through Justice Stories
We collaborate with groups sharing the same goal as well as other groups and organizations working for social and economic justice, peace-building, and sustainable human and environmental development throughout the world. Some of our stories appear below:
Clean Water for Families in El Salvador
One of the pediatricians on a PazSalud health care mission to El Salvador noticed that in family after family the baby at breast was round and rosy, but the children who were no longer nursing were thin, pale and listless. She diagnosed likely cases of parasites or water-born bacteria. Sister Susan Dewitt, CSJP decided to investigate water filtration systems and with the help of donors is bringing clean water to communities in El Salvador.
CSJPs work to end Human Trafficking
Sister Margaret Healy, CSJP has been very active in the United Kingdom with efforts to rescue and restore victims of human trafficking.
Sisters and Associates in Seattle, Washington are collaborating with other women religious and community groups to stop the demand for human trafficking.
Lukelesia’s Well
Early in 2006 one of the Congregation Small Groups, the Ladybugs, learned about Lukelesia Saiti, a Kenyan woman whose daughter is now a member of the Seattle Carmelite community. Lukelesia's village had no well, so she and other women had to walk for miles every day to get muddy, contaminated water for their family.
Collaborating with CAFOD
Sister Mary Teresa Sheridan, CSJP writes, “Our house in Rearsby, England has the CAFOD office on the premises. All the Overseas Development Campaigns come to us very quickly. Recently, Sisters Bridgetta, Eleanor, Margaret Healy and Mary Teresa travelled to London on December 5, 2009 to take part in the “Wave” as a prelude to Copenhagen. They met up with Sisters Joan and Hilda and then marched through Central London to Parliament with 40,000 others to emphasise the need for Climate Justice.”
School of the Americas Watch
Every year thousands of people travel to Fort Benning, Indiana to call attention to the . Many CSJPs join in this commitment. Sister Miriam Spencer, CSJP who served a six-month federal prison sentence for her protests against the SOA, has long been a passionate advocate for the closing of the SOA which has trained many of those responsible for assassinations and atrocities in Central and South America.