HEAL Blog
Welcome! Here we will post news and highlight the faces, needs, and services of HEAL.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...
BOMCA Needs Help Overcoming Adverse Conditions
A new fuel tax in Nigeria has spiked the cost of transportation for working people, who expressed their disfavor to our new media partner, CCPM-TV. Combined with the arguably draconian measures now in effect to stop the spread of COVID-19, this tax forms a double dose...
Blessing discharged from hospital, recovering from surgery!
I met Blessing during my last visit to Umuagwu, when I saw her dancing with a severe limp and learned she had been suffering from “polio induced clubbed foot” for almost all of her short life. Deacon Leo and I consulted with physicians, who recommended she undergo a...
Nurse Agatha: “I see them all as my children!”
I recently wrote about the partial reopening of schools in Nigeria in the continuing battle against COVID-19 and our need for medical supplies to ensure best health practices are followed. Proper use of medical supplies and implementation of official health directives...
Students Eagerly Return to School After Missing Two Trimesters!
Since the COVID-19 virus hit Nigeria, efforts began to stop the spread. As it has around the globe, the education of children has been greatly disrupted. The Masters at BOCMA and MENPS have missed half of the 2nd and all of the 3rd trimester of the 2019-2020 school...
Every Job Counts in HEAL’s Mission!
Forming the Masters into Servant Leaders (Mt 20:26) requires various forms of work contributing to the same objective. Not all of this work can be done by the MOJ Sisters and teachers tasked with the intellectual and spiritual development of BOMCA and MENPS students. ...
MOJ Sisters Feed the Hungry During Pandemic!
Today everyone is worried about catching a virus. In Nigeria, however, everyone is worried about catching their next meal. Efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 have had drastic “side effects”, pardon the medical metaphor. Increased checkpoints, quarantines, and a...