BREVARD — “Don’t worry about numbers. Help one person at a time.”
Two parishes, Sacred Heart Church in Brevard and St. Leo the Great Church in Winston-Salem, recently put this quote from St. Teresa of Calcutta into action by collecting approximately $6,000 to support the college education of two women in Kenya.
The program, University Initiative-Kenya, is administered by the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate.
Founded in Kenya, this order helps the poorest men and women in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania get vocational training or university-level educational opportunities. Without the help provided by these churches, college and a way out of poverty would remain only a dream for them.
— Dorice Narins, correspondent