The Sister Who Made a Difference
What made this nun and her amazing work known and appreciated all over the world is the Opus Prize she won in 2019. The award, worth one million dollars, is one of the world’s most prestigious recognitions of faith-based initiatives that seek to address grave social problems.
Sr Catherine Mutindi, who won the Opus Prize for the year 2019, was born in Kenya, became a Good Shepherd Sister, and worked there till 2012. In 2012 a bishop in the Democratic Republic of Congo invited her to come to the city of Kolwezi and work for widows and orphans. Before beginning her work, she decided to talk to the local people and listen to them keenly in order to understand their plight. She realized very soon that the problems of not merely widows and orphans but children, adolescents and a vast majority of the poor people were related to cobalt mining in the city.
Fr M A Joe Antony SJ
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