This is Frances Pennell from the Newfoundland Congregation (Canada) ministering in Dominica, West Indies. Presentation Sisters have been involved there as full-time volunteers since 1992. The sisters' primary focus is not in the Catholic schools of the island but in the government schools all over the island where the needs are greater. They assist teachers and students primarily in reading. Presently there are two sisters in Dominica. They love it and the people respond warmly to their presence.

Giant corporations are clearcutting the forests of East Tennessee to feed the increasing number of chip mills being located in the area. (Chip mills grind the potential saw timber into tiny one-inch chips for use in the paper mill industry.)

Through Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM), local residents are working to stop the destruction of their mountains. In the picture, Anne Hablas of the Fargo Congregation, a SOCM member, looks over a devastated area near her home in Campbell County. With other members of SOCM Anne is working to get state regulation of corporate clearcutting. Currently Tennessee has no laws that regulate the practice.

Part of being a Social Service Minister with Sacred Heart Southern Missions in Mississippi is to visit folks, hear their stories and assist as needed. Here Maris Stella Korb of the Fargo Congregation is listening to a woman who needs only that... someone to listen!

Presentation Sisters from Aberdeen SD attended "BREAD DAYS” sponsored by Bread for the World of South Dakota. The issue addressed was the impact the increased tax on food will have on the poor. Pictured is Presentation Sister Pegge Boehm (second from right) and friends.

Pictured here is Joanna Bruno of the San Francisco Congregation visiting the mother of four small children who had been very sick. The Sisters had been able to help her and she recovered well. Joanna co-directs a medical clinic in Santa Clara la Laguna, Guatemala.

Eileen Boyle of the Staten Island Congregation (second from left) is pictured here at a meeting of the social justice group in St Clare's Parish. The group were making plans for the year regarding the targeting of the Debt Cancellation and the increase of the minimum wage. These issues were brought to the attention of the parishioners who then became involved by writing letters and signing petitions.