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Charitas in Humilitate: Working with the Canossian Sisters in East Timor

Charitas in Humilitate: Working with the Canossian Sisters in East Timor. East Timor or Timor-Leste ?. from CIA World Factbook…. Slightly larger than Connecticut Arable land: 8.2% 1.1 million people 40% illiteracy Official languages: Tetum, Portugese.

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Charitas in Humilitate: Working with the Canossian Sisters in East Timor

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  1. Charitas in Humilitate:Working with the Canossian Sisters in East Timor

  2. East Timor or Timor-Leste?

  3. from CIA World Factbook… • Slightly larger than Connecticut • Arable land: 8.2% • 1.1 million people • 40% illiteracy • Official languages: Tetum, Portugese

  4. from CIA World Factbook… • 70% of infrastructure destroyed in 1999 • Annual income: $2400 per capita • 20% unemploymenturban youth: 40% • Economy: subsistence farming, coffee, oil, sandalwood • Poorest country in Asia

  5. 18 98.2 East Timor 8.6 9.1 7.5 6.1 7.0 8.4 9.1 8.7 7.0 8.8 8.7 9.2 158 35.3 United States 3.1 3.2 3.4 1.1 5.4 4.0 2.5 2.5 3.7 1.6 3.3 1.5 http://www.fundforpeace.org

  6. Canossian Daughters of Charity • Nearly 200 years old, 3000 sisters world-wide • Foundress: St. Magdalene (1774-1835) • St. Bakhita of Sudan, a former slave • Community, Spirituality, Formation, Service

  7. Mission began in 1879…

  8. “Above all, make Jesus known and loved.” - Canossian motto

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