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Welcome! Here we will post news and highlight the faces, needs, and services of HEAL.Students win quiz competition, advance to debate finals!
Carpe Diem means “seize the day”, and that’s just what the vice-principal of BOMCA Academy did on behalf of her students. The BOMCA Debate Squad Recently, a trio of men arrived in Akpim village and informed Nanim Nidiamaka of a debate competition for students in the...
The Masters Trained in Singing the Psalms
Waking up in the middle of the night in a convent in a tiny village in Cameroon, I walked down a dark hallway with hands stretched out to feel for any invisible hard edges. I made it to the chapel door, entered, and knelt in a pew seeing nothing except a flickering...
New Postulants Try Out the MOJ Sisters
In the movie Field of Dreams, a farmer walking in his cornfield hears a mysterious voice whisper, “If you build it, he will come.” He obeys the voice by building a baseball field on his farm, which draws the spirits of historic players who appear on the field to play...
WAEC Exam Next Up for the Masters!
2020 has been an incredibly difficult year for youth. In the name of stopping COVID-19 spread, young people in Nigeria like everywhere were shut out of school, sports, and social life to an extent never before seen! HEAL has been assiduously helping our youth get...
Give $10/month to Help Sr. Dorothy’s Mission!
In yesterday’s Gospel (Mk 3:7-12), Our Lord boards a boat off shore of the Sea of Galilee to avoid being crushed by a great crowd pressing upon him. In the crowd, people with various diseases wanted to touch him and be healed. Sr. Dorothy processing up the aisle...
Help Us Complete Exam Hall for Our Students
This Christmas season, Christians prepare for the 2nd Coming of Christ by reflecting back upon His first coming at His birth. This 2021 academic year in Nigeria, after 6 months of school closings due to the C-19 pandemic, HEAL prepares the Masters for their...
School Reopening Requires COVID Compliance
Back in grade school, if there was a snow storm, I would check on radio or TV to find out if school would be closed. Of course, if weather ever caused school to close for a day or two, it was always a joyful occasion. What grade school kid wouldn’t want a few days...
Masters Immersed in Ethos of Self-Emptying
I felt sick while praying in the BOMCA Academy chapel with the Masters one evening. As we walked out of the chapel, I mentioned how I wasn’t feeling well. The children quickly gathered around and offered to pray for me. Sr. Racheal prays with children in chapel. The...
Teachers and Students Ready to Make Up Lost Time
As a pampered child in America, I always dreaded going back to school after a fun filled summer. Like most youngsters, I hated school. But, I’m not surprised Nigerian students are eager to end their COVID-19 quarantine and begin learning again. Upon hearing Nigerian...
New Farm Will Foster Food Independence
I walked into the Messengers of Justice (MOJ) vegetable garden, where Sr. Ann Onyedieke, MOJ taught me how to plant a pumpkin seed. “Plant the seed with the head facing down so that when it opens the tap root sprouts up through the soil”, she said while demonstrating...