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St. Michael’s Africa Project has been on-going since 2009. The parish is w orking 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 School Sisters of Notre Dame 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 Notre Dame 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 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 not only St Michael Parish which continues to oversee the project, but also the St. Jerome’s University Community, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Waterloo, and St. Anne’s Parish, Kitchener.