Nairobi, 11 July, 2023 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Hundreds of Catholic Nuns from some 40 Religious Orders in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia are having their approach to Congregational initiatives “transformed” thanks to a partnership with Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
In an interview with ACI Africa ahead of the visit of the CNHF President to Kenya, the Grant Manager of the Sisters’ Blended Value Project (SBVP), the initiative that CNHF facilitated at the Kenya-based Strathmore University in partnership with Congregations of Catholic Nuns in four African countries, spoke about the capacity building project that has so far benefited 300 Catholic Nuns.
Hilton Foundation provided US$3.2 million grant to Strathmore University for the SBVP in December 2021 after the Nairobi-based Opus Dei institution of higher learning conducted a baseline study that sought “to understand the challenges that Catholic Sisters face when implementing their projects in their Congregations or their social ministries,” Anne Njoroge said during the Tuesday, July 11 interview.
“The grant has gone a long way to support us, to ensure that Sisters’ lives are transformed,” Ms. Njoroge further said, adding that the partnership with Hilton Foundation “has helped us to be able to implement those interventions we came up with during the baseline (study).”
The baseline study, the SBVP Grant Manager said, established that Catholic face financial literacy challenges in the running of their Congregational projects.