FEDERATION MARITIME PROJECT FOCUSES ON ADVOCACY

The Sisters of Charity Federation Maritime Project committee met June 8 near Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.  The project focuses on advocacy for women and children in areas of housing and social assistance in the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.  It also includes advocacy for and with working persons living in poverty.  The Maritime Project is mandated by leadership teams of the four Canadian-based Federation congregations. 

The recent meeting was hosted by Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception.  The committee also represents les Religieuses de Notre-Dame-du-Sacre-Coeur based in Moncton, N.B.; Sisters of Charity of Halifax, N.S. and Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish, N.S.  Left to right:  Sisters Roma De Robertis, SCIC of Saint John; Helen Danahy, SC of Halifax; Aurea Cormier, NDSC of Moncton and Franklyn Ferguson, CSM of Sydney, N.S.   (Photo:  Sister Monica Plante, SCIC)