Working Miracles In Swaziland

NICOLE OSUCH NAO722@CABRINI EDU MANAGING EDITOR

CHRISTINE GRAF ACG724@CABRINI EDU ASST NEWS EDITOR

“We are in the epicenter of a world crisis,” said Sister Barbara Staley, MSC in an interview with The Loquitur.

Three-fourths of HIV and AIDS victims live in sub-Saharan Africa. Thirteen million African children are orphans because of the loss of one or both their parents from AIDS, according to Cabrini Ministries.

Since 1971, The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - the Cabrini sisters - have been serving at St. Philip’s Mission in Swaziland, South Africa. Today they provide healthcare to HIV and AIDS patients, care for orphans and vulnerable children, supply the elderly and HIV patients with food and food supplements and provide education and skills training for children in homesteads.

Recently Sister Barbara and

Sister Diane Dalle Molle, MSC invited President Antoinette Iadarola and the Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Mission Margaret Fox-Tully to visit the Cabrini sisters and witness their work first hand.

“I came away from the visit with a great deal of respect, admiration and awe for the work that the Sisters do,” Iadarola said.

The Cabrini Sisters along with a staff of 15 look after 141 orphans, nine of whom are HIV positive. Seven of the nine are receiving antiretroviral drugs. “The children have been exposed to great loss and abandoned in a world that most of us cannot even begin

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