July 17, 2015

Girls at Homes of Hope orphanage in Secunderbad, India. Homes of Hope works in collaboration with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, who administer the orphanage. (Paul Wilkes)

" . . . a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor."

- Pope Francis, from "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" (Chapter 1, Section 5, Paragraph 49), referred to in Lauato Si' - A story of right relationships by Patricia Siemen, published on Global Sisters Report July 7, 2015on.

Read more about the pictured orphanage, which earned a LEED Silver designation for its environmental design, here.

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