MANILA, June 29, 2004 (asianews.it): AsiaNews reports on changing times for the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines – For the past 68 years, the sisters of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul have been running the private-owned White Cross Orphanage in San Juan, Metro Manila. “But we will be handing-over the orphanage to the board of directors by tomorrow, June 30,” Sr. Teresita Montañano told AsiaNews.
Seventeen sisters used to work here. But under Sr. Montañano’s leadership, they have cut down on their personnel with only 5 sisters for the 91 resident children. Included in their work is the day-care centre which caters to the children of the poor families in the community. Though there are more than 500 sisters in the congregation, the majority of them are elderly, says Sr. Montañano, who works as para-legal at the Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People at the Bishops’ Conference. “And there are less vocations. And even among the young sisters, many of them are sickly. The others do not have a strong constitution. They easily get tired.” The congregations administer about 50 private institutions, hospitals and schools nationwide. “We have to give up most of the institutions which we were tasked to administer.” Where they used to have several officers in each province, this is also being centralized, with only one group of officers for each province.
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Thanks to TIm Williams for spotting this.
