Reading the signs of the times

     In apostolic service, the congregation runs regular and special schools, hospitals and rural health centres, home craft centres, early childhood learning schools, and other projects aimed at increasing people’s accessibility to services that underpin integral human development.

     Further, the congregation has actively been involved in pastoral work and various aspects of evangelisation at parish and diocesan levels. Through this and other social activities, sisters understand challenges that people face at grass root level.

     According to the historical sketch of the congregation of Sisters of the Child Jesus (2001), renewal in an ongoing process. The formation of the Handbook prepared in 1989 – 1991 shows the sincere desire and effort to keep abreast of developments, evaluating where the congregation has been, where it is and where it intends to go. This realisation and the inspiration tapped from the call to read the signs of the times and taking cognisance of some of the challenges that the congregation has faced over the years, strategic planning has become indispensable.