Another fabulous International Project--"Kopanang"

 

 

Jo Karaolis invites us all to St Lucy’s, Cleveland St Wahroonga, on Kopanang Night, August 26th  for “a night of simple pleasures so we can align ourselves with the women of Kopanang and their fight to change the future for their children.”

 

 Sister Sheila Flynn will speak and show a video and we will have enormous fun with games and competitions and opportunities for our Rotary brilliance to shine.

 

Kopanang is an impoverished settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg where a Dominican sister, Sister Sheila, is working to better the lives of a community of women, mostly single women. They have been trying to stay alive by prostitution in a community battling AIDs and poverty,

Jo said she first met Sister Sheila when Jo was principal of St Lucy’s. Sheila said when she first visited us she wanted to thank us “on behalf of our mothers, our grandmothers, our children of Kopanang” for giving people hope. 

The women make and try to sell wonderful wall hangings, and a co-operative that the sisters there have formed now trains them in design – and in running a production, learning how to run a photocopier.