In February 2022, Abigail travelled to Sierra Leone to visit the Girls Empowerment
project and the team in the West Africa Mission Development Office.
The Fe y Alegría project assists over 1,400 primary and secondary school students with academic and psycho-social support in the San Juan de Lurigacho neighbourhood, which is an area of high poverty in Lima. This is one of many stories of how this project impacts the community.
In October 2022, Abigail headed off to Latin America to visit the Fe y Alegría and Reaching New Horizons projects in Peru, the Centro Hermano Manolo project in Bolivia, and the Latin
America Mission Office.
In November 2022, Naidi travelled to Cebu City and Bato, Leyte to visit the projects of the Edmund Rice Ministries Foundation Philippines, which are supported by ERD.
The Edmund Rice Eldoret Empowerment project facilitated the ‘End Rape Culture’ campaign in July to advocate for change and to raise awareness on Sexual and Gender Based Violence.
Edmund Rice International (ERI) hosted a diverse group of members of the Edmund Rice network from across the world. Nine participants brought diverse perspectives to the training program held in Geneva from November 6th to the 21st.
'This was my first visit back to East Africa since before the pandemic and it was great to be back! The visit was planned in collaboration with Edmund Rice Foundation Australia so I was delighted to be joined by ERFA’s CEO Bren Arkinstall.'
The capacity development project picked up momentum in the second half of the year. This A...
'The reason I decided to travel to Perú and Bolivia during my summer vacation in Paraguay is quite simple: to encounter the real situation in the Edmund Rice Development Projects in Latin America.'