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St. Michael’s Africa Project has been on-going since 2009. The parish is
working to support the School Sisters of Notre Dame in their ministry to the
needy children in Nyalieng’a Parish, Diocese of Homa Bay, Kenya. The
SSND are currently working with over 200 children, many of them orphans
because of HIV/AIDS. Their outreach program is called Notre Dame
Children Outreach because for the most part the children are still living on
their own land – there is no orphanage.
In 2013, St. Michael’s initiated a Child Sponsorship Program. For about a
dollar per day, sponsors enable the SSND to provide education, health
care, food security, agricultural training and emotional and social support
to the children. This year, more than 100 children are benefiting from this
program. Renewals and new memberships are processed in early
November each year.
St. Michael’s parish schools – St. David’s High School, Sir Edgar Bauer
Elementary School and St. Nicholas Elementary School – have also
generously supported the NDCO.
Support in Waterloo Region has grown to include: St. Jerome’s University
Community, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, and St. Anne’s Parish.