To mark the 200th Anniversary of the founding of our Congregation we invited the schools connected with the Sisters of Charity to take part in a ‘Mary Aikenhead Care for the Earth Project’. The project will run throughout the calendar year 2015. Each school was invited to nominate either a project in which they were already engaged or a new project as their entry.
Sixteen schools responded positively to our invitation, eleven from Ireland, three from Nigeria and two from Zambia. The congregation supported the schools with a modest grant to part fund their projects.
A great variety of projects have been undertaken by the schools in areas of food production, bio-diversity, waste management, global citizenship, gardening and green fingers. It is very heartening that there is already a great awareness of the need to be responsible for and care for Earth among the school populations.
Click on a link to read what is being done in the following schools:
Scoil Muire na nAingeal, Clonmel, Ireland
Nazareth Primary School, Festac Town, Lagos, Nigeria
St Patrick’s Special Needs School, Kells Road, Kilkenny, Ireland
New Cross College, Cappagh, Dublin, Ireland
Our Lady of the Waters Nursery/Primary School, Bomadi, Nigeria
