Below is a list of the current projects through-out the world being run under the umbrella of Good Shepherd Economic Justice Ministries International
To find out more about any of the projects listed below, click on the project title link.
Alay Kapwa
The Gawang Kamay Cooperative began in the 1980s in Leveriza, one of Manila's slum areas. It developed out of the Alay Kapwa Christian Community, initiated by the Good Shepherd Sisters...
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Asociacion de Mujeres Desplazadas
Most of the women involved in the Association are originally from the rural communities of Huancavelica, Ayacucho and the High Andean regions of the Valley of Mataro-Junin...
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Centre Fihavanana, Antananarivo
Fihavanana means Family Parenting to achieve harmonious relationships. Centre Fihavanana has been in existence since 1985 and hosts a number of programs, many of which have an economic justice focus...
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Diriya Kantha Hamuwa
The Good Shepherd Sisters in Nuwara Eliya work with women in the villages and assist them to find markets for the products they make.
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Euphrasia Training Centre
The challenge that defined the apostolate in Nairobi was: “What is the Church prepared to do for these women in prostitution and what happens when the children start imitating their mothers?”
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Fatima Self-Help Centre
The Fatima Centre has for 25 years served the needs of women living in the surrounding slums or low-rental flats in Din Daeng, Bangkok.
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Good Shepherd Micro-Credit
A small project in Port Elizabeth offers small loans to members, using money donated from Germany.
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Handcrafting Justice
Handcrafting Justice was formerly known as Global Women's Exchange. It is a project of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, established in New York, U.S.A. in 1997 and acting in partnership with women working at income generating craft projects in developing countries.
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Isan Crafts
A small non-profit trading company ISAN Crafts run entirely by volunteers sells products made in the income generating projects of the Good Sisters in Thailand...
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Isan Pottery
Isan Pottery is located 7kms south of Nongkhai, Thailand, in the grounds of the Village Vocational Training Centre. The project began in response to the needs of village youth...
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Isan Weaving and Regina Centres
The north-east of Thailand, around Nong Khai, is often drought stricken and the soil is generally of poor quality. This - and the loss of land to "development" - has made the future of the villagers of the region insecure...
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Kanisa, Bantul
Bantul is 9.5 kms from Yogyakarta in Central Java. The Good Shepherd Sisters there work with women in the surrounding villages who have skills in block batik printing.
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Likas Lunas Card and Herbal Project
This project began about 16 years ago in response to the needs of young people living in the area around the Good Shepherd Sisters complex in Quezon City, Manila…
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Maria Droste Centre
The Maria Droste Centre on the outskirts of Jakarta offers employment to about 200 women.
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Navodhini
Navodhini means "Towards a new Awakening". The project offers skills training and employment to women from the slums surrounding St Michael's Good Shepherd Convent in Bangalore...
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Pinatubo Ash Art Ware
After the Mt Pinatubo volcanic eruption destroyed their homes and fields, a group of creative men and women began turning the ash and mud (lahar)into art ware.
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Sharing Fair Europe
A central office for Good Shepherd economic justice projects has been established
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Sharing Fair, Canada
Sharing Fair began in 1993 and is a project of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Canada.
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Sharing Fair, Great Britain
Sharing Fair, Britain's practical expression of its commitment to economic justice for women, is based in Newcastle-on-Tyne in the North-East of the country...
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St Agnes Convent Workroom
The workroom at St Agnes Convent was started in order to help young women from the surrounding villages with no other source of income to learn the skills of needlework and to earn some of the money they need through the sale of their work.
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Teko Joja Kuña Rembiapope
Teko Joja Kuña Rembiapope and the Cooperative of the Weavers of Ñanduti were established by the Good Shepherd Sisters in Asuncion, Paraguay, to assist poor craftswomen to earn a fair price for their work...
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The Trading Circle
The Trading Circle is a not-for profit company established by the Good Shepherd Sisters in Australia and New Zealand. We are committed to fair trade and solidarity with women and their families who struggle within the global economic structures to find a way out of poverty...
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Unidos Para Renacer
Argentina has a high level of unemployment especially in the north east. As a result, families may lack even basic life necessities...
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