Ministry in the Amazon region: helping those with many needs
In
1971, the Passo Fundo province began a mission
in the Northwest of Brazil—in
the state of Acre, in the Amazon Region—to help people in their social,
cultural and spiritual needs. The exploitation of the poor by the land owners,
the poor health care system, the large number of children dying from ordinary
diseases and malnutrition, the large number of children not attending formal
education as well as many illiterate adults and abandoned elderly, were among
the reasons for establishing this mission.
The sisters’ ministry in Acre consists in preventive and curative health
care and alternative medicine; helping and instructing pregnant women; organizing
Christian communities; coordinating leaders of parishes and dioceses; training
pastoral ministers for catechesis, liturgy, youth groups and ministers of
the Eucharist; pastoral care of children, pastoral work with families; education
of children and adults and care of the elderly.
