Sr. Dr. Lucy Hometowu, Superior General of Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church (SMMC), Ho, in Ghana’s Volta Region has paid a visit to Holy Rosary School at Asikasu, Donkorkrom in the Afram Plains.
She made a stop-over on May 23, 2024 during her pastoral visit to the SMMC community at Kwaekese in the Apostolic Vicariate of Donkorkrom.
Sr. Hometowu was accompanied by two other SMMC Sisters including Sr. Cecilia Afari, the Vicar General of the Congregation, who is also presently the Coordinator of the Sister Communicators project in Ghana.
The purpose of the visit was to greet the Sisters and to see how they were faring as far as the education ministry in the Afram Plains is concerned, as the SMMC also runs a School- Mater Ecclesia at Kwaekese.
Sr. Hometowu, and her team were very impressed with the significant development of the Holy Rosary School.
She expressed admiration for the beautiful scenery, the structures, the Child Protection Statement inscribed on the wall of the Administrative Block, the JP tanks for rain harvesting, among others.
She encouraged the Missionary Sisters of Holy Rosary, who are managing the School to keep up the good work. She, however, solicited the support and team spirit of the Holy Rosary Sisters with the SMMC Sisters working in the school at Kwaekese.
“Sisters, work together to move Donkorkrom to another level,” she said.
The SMMC Superior was received in the school by Sr. Sylvie Lum Cho, one of the Holy Rosary Sisters managing the school, and who also recently participated in the Media and Communication Training for Sister Communicators, at Kumasi, Ghana.
The nine-day training was coordinated by the Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church (SMMC).
Sr. Cho was grateful for the visit and on behalf of the headmistress, Sr. Stella Nwosu, MSHR and of the entire school community, expressed gratitude for the thoughtful visit of the Sisters.
The pupils were not left out in the excitement as one could see some of them rushing to hug the Sisters as they do habitually when they meet Sisters, especially. The visit was also timely as it was almost closing time, so with that, the Sisters had the opportunity to see more children outside as they either raced to board the school buses or to mount their motorbikes. The school staff were equally excited to see another group of Sisters, wearing another type of ‘uniform’, different from what they have been used to seeing.
Holy Rosary School at Asikasu in the Donkorkrom Vicariate is a Religious Private School owned and managed by the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (MSHR).
MSHR is an international Congregation of Catholic Religious Missionary Sisters who are called to go beyond their own cultures and countries, to find, nurture and share the Good News with people in every kind of need especially the poor and the underprivileged.
The Holy Rosary Sisters, who this year marked their Centenary were founded on the March 7, 1924 in Killeshandra, Ireland by an Irish born Holy Ghost Bishop, Joseph Ignatius Shanahan.
Today, the Holy Rosary Sisters work in 13 countries of the world which include: Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Liberia, Zambia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Brazil, United Kingdom, USA and Ireland.
By Sr. Sylvie Lum Cho, MSHR (DEPSOCOM, Donkorkrom Apostolic Vicariate)
