WaterSisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

Corporate Stand

‘Water is a sacred gift that connects all life’

UN Commission on SustainableDevelopment, May 2010

UN photo

Phyllis Douillard, Dorothy Guha

Claudette Bastien, Sally Duffy

UNANIMA INTERNATIONAL

Cadillac Street, Montreal, Canada

Mission Sector North

Lise

Julie

Claudette

Mission Sector North• Concern for Haiti after the January 2010

earthquake

• Dany Lafferière, Haitian, Canadian writer: “The majority of the people in Port-au-Prince slept

outdoors that night, under the stars. [. . .] As we were lying on the ground, we could feel every tremor of the earth in our deepest being. We were one body with the Earth.”

cnn.com

Comité Eau Secours International

• Claudette serves with the Coalition Eau Secours to protect the waters of Québec

Mission Sector South

Agnes participated in planning the annual walk to the reservoir in Sao Paulo,

Brazil to promote action to protect water for all

Marjorie, Agnes Hoy, Aparacida

Brazil

Mission Sector South

Monique above with children in the landless movement alerts people about water issues

Monique Fortier and Françoise Bernard (inset)

work with impoverished women in Maceió.

Brazil

Mission Sector South

• SNJMs urge soft drink companies to improve water use practices

• SNJMs boycott Coca Cola products

Peru

Sisters and

Associates

BrigidMarjorie

Lesotho

• Sustainability project for AIDS orphans 2010• Raise chickens• Problems with drainage system affecting health of orphans and chickens

Lesotho

January 2011

Maryland Clinic

Spokane Mission Centre• Thanked local ‘Champions of Water’

during Earth Water Day• Joined Episcopal Diocese and

Interfaith Council hosting Candlelight Vigil to observe Earth Hour, March 24

• Held ‘Celebrate

the Sacred Earth’

workshopSt. John Evangelist Cathedral

California Mission Centres

• Water-Sacred Gift and Source of Life (blog developed by HelenGarvey)• Post your comment!

• Water issues in California• Delta area northeast of San

Francisco supplies water to most of California

Water Issues in

California

Marylhurst Mission Centre

• ‘Water: A Human Right?’• Marylhurst Homecoming 2009• Cecilia A. Ranger, SNJM, PhD

Marylhurst tower

Seattle Mission Centre• St. Anthony’s Grade School in

Renton, WA studied ‘Care for All Creation’ booklets from IPJC

St. Anthony’s students

Seattle Mission Centre• Mimi Maloney showed DVD ‘Flow’ to

ecumenical groups in Olympia, WA• Seniors in Contemporary Problems, Holy

Names Academy, Seattle, WA discussed protecting access to safe water for all

Seattle Mission Centre

Global Solidarity Week ‘09

SNJM Youth Justice Forum in Winnipeg challenged HNA students to “Water is a right for life for all”

Avery Haller

Katie Welch

Maddie Braman

Natalie Izzo

Sr Charlyne

Sr Josephine

An oil-stained pelican leaves its nest as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills in Barataria Bay just inside the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Water Committee 2010 challenge

Advocate to protect trans-boundary waters globally

as an essential right for all life

SNJM Action 2010-2011