A boy sells water packets on the shoreline just outside the Cape Coast Castle Museum of Cape Coast, Ghana, 2010.. The museum is devoted to the history of the slave trade. Established as a fortress for the trade of gold and other valuable resources, the castle was a dungeon for holding slaves before their transfer to the Americas. It is estimated that around 1 million slaves were transported from what is now Ghana to the Americas between the 1600s and the middle of the 19th century. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

"Adding an indigenous dimension to the sisters’ ministry will, I believe, enable social transformation in ways compatible with peoples’ experience: When people are enabled to seek social change, that change will be lasting and sustainable. How? By fostering less competition and more encouragement of cooperative learning as well as buttressing associational relationships. For example, in an almost forgotten past, young people went from farm to farm lending their help to farmers and learning from them. We need to renew this spirit, the spirit of 'I am, because we are.' Doing this, African sisters will become even better agents of social transformation."

- Sr. Eucharia Madueke, from Women working with women: African Catholic nuns transform their communities, published on GSR Oct. 21, 2014