Justice and solidarity
Children in distress and… celebration!
In the town of Maroua, capital of Cameroon's Far North region, the number of children living on the streets is rising sharply. There are several reasons for this. In addition to difficult family situations - children fleeing violence and ill-treatment by their...
Echoes of visits…
Nancy, Mercedes, Rosita, María, Violeta, Lucy… : these are names that are always in our emotions and our memories of a shared life of welcome, meeting and joy; names we repeat and repetitions that unite us. Because of forced absences for health or other reasons, as...
The CHASKA Institution and its activities
CHASKA is a community education centre that trains parents and young people in a number of areas: animal husbandry, agriculture and life skills. CHASKA also provides educational support for children. This year, we were visited by young volunteers from France who, with...
World Disability Day
3 December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This year, 2024, a celebration was held for us on that day at St Mary's Rehabilitation and Development Centre in Ipetumodu, Nigeria, under the leadership of the owner of the noble institution, Bishop...
The ballad of words…
A look at the friendly Secours Catholique group in Flers - a French town in the Normandy region where I am involved - which decided to change its activity: instead of ‘reupholstering furniture’, it wanted to do theatre! It took us the whole year... The group is Eric,...
To each his own… My share has come!
Closing the end of the year full of hope and expectation: that was both the feeling and the conviction we felt when we received the sewing machines on 3 July 2024! These gifts from Codas-Caritas of the Diocese of Maroua-Mokolo in Cameroon are a concrete expression of...
Promotion of young women
Friday 31 May 2024 was a day of celebration at the Centre de Promotion de la Jeune Fille (CPJF) in Touloum, a town in Cameroon's Far North region: we were delighted to celebrate the completion of several girls' training by holding a ceremony to award them their...
Recognition and gratitude
As part of the jubilee year marking 70 years of the presence of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in Cameroon, a pilgrimage and a Mass of thanksgiving were organised on Thursday 30 May in honour of Sister Anne-Marie VOLANT and of all the missionary Daughters of the...
A special day with children
Cameroon. On 25 May 2024, together with other people of goodwill, we organised a day of friendship with disabled children, nursery school children and children from Group II primary school in Touloum -Touloum is a commune in Cameroon's Far North region-. The theme of...
Prison: a place of rebirth
On Sunday 28 April 2024, we, the novices of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, went to visit the inmates of the central prison in the town of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. Knowing their difficult living...
Our projects
DHS Solidarity Projects
What we cannot do alone, we are able to do together. Thank you for being there.
CAMEROON
Dormitory equipment project at the Catholic Mission’s Vocational Training Center for Youth and Women in Touroua. The Center for the professional formation of Youth and Women in Sainte Monique parish, Touroua, was created in 2001. It is a vocational establishment....
BURKINA FASO
Project to help internally displaced people. Over the years, Burkina Faso has been plagued by insecurity, with armed groups appearing throughout the country, especially in the East and North. These groups sow terror, attacking villages and burning everything in sight:...
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KENYA, day of Mazingira
In KENYA, we, Daughters of the Holy Spirit, encourage environmental protection and we are delighted to take advantage of every opportunity: on October 10, 2025, the day of Mazingira* provided us with one of those beautiful opportunities! We had left to plant trees...
« Welcome Days 2025 »
Called to come from Cameroon to France for the service at the general commissary, I had the grace to participate in the session "Welcome Days 2025", a meeting organized each year by the CORREF (Conference of Religious and Sisters of France) to allow foreign...
Laudato Si’ – UNITED STATES
Happy Birthday Laudato Si “Praise be.” This is how St. Francis of Assisi began his Canticle of the Creatures 800 years ago and also how Pope Francis began his encyclical 10 years ago on the Care for Earth, our “common home”. St. Francis' canticle was groundbreaking in...
On the way… for loss to turn into gain
"The path of FEDEAR* is part of our lives" said the president, Marie-Lise MILHE in her welcome message for this last Congress. We were 137 gathered at the "Bon Pasteur" of Angers -France-, coming from all regions and 38 religious congregations. The host was...
‘Laudato Si’ – Asamblea CAMERÚN
«Mejor tomar el cambio por la mano antes de que nos tome por la garganta», decía Winston Churchill Del 3 al 4 de octubre de 2025, las Hijas del Espíritu Santo y los asociados de la Viceprovincia de Camerún se reunieron en el centro de acogida 'Renée Burel' en...
Laudato Si’ – CAMEROON
"Better take change by the hand before it takes us by the throat." said Winston Churchill From October 3 to 4, 2025, the Daughters of the Holy Spirit and the associates of the Vice Province of Cameroon met at the ‘Renée Burel” reception center in Maroua-Galdima, to...
Laudato Si’- ENGLAND and IRELAND
The DHS Family of England and Ireland “Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si’” The Feast of St Francis of Assisi, Saturday 4th October 2025, Olney On 4th October 2025, a blustery but dry day, Sisters and Associates met in the Church...
Laudato Si’ – BURKINA FASO
Caring for the earth means caring for ourselves, future generations, and our relationship with God. It was with this conviction of Pope Francis, of venerable memory, that we spent a day of prayer, reflection, sharing and awareness-raising as we celebrated the 10th...
Laudato Si‘ – NIGERIA
On 3 October 2025, activists from the Daughters of the Holy Spirit's Laudato Si campaign organised an awareness-raising tour in the village of Ilogbo, in Ogun State, to mark the 10th anniversary of the project launched by His Holiness Pope Francis in 2015. This...
Laudato Si’ – FRANCE-BELGIUM
Invited on 4 October 2024 to travel to Ile Blanche to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si, some 120 members of the DHS spiritual family arrive there.A very warm welcome awaits us, thanks to the long and meticulous preparation of the day by the ‘Laudato Si’...