{"id":15708,"date":"2025-08-08T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/?p=15708"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:52:06","slug":"labor-humanitaria-y-samaritana-de-la-congregacion-san-juan-bautista-de-nampula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/2025\/08\/08\/labor-humanitaria-y-samaritana-de-la-congregacion-san-juan-bautista-de-nampula\/","title":{"rendered":"HUMANITARIAN AND SAMARITAN WORK OF THE CONGREGATION OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST OF NAMPULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">During the visit to Mozambique last July by the International Coordinator and Secretary, Lorena Rodr\u00edguez and Purificaci\u00f3n Vilar, they had the opportunity to spend time with the Congregation of St. John the Baptist in Nampula, as several of its sisters are Prayer and Life Workshop Guides. They also visited the school and daycare center founded by one of these Guides, Sister Asunci\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">One of the Congregation&#8217;s tasks is to support children from very poor families who need help attending daycare or school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">They give them a meal (sometimes it&#8217;s their only meal of the day), buy medicine when they are sick, and buy clothes and shoes so they don&#8217;t walk around in rags and barefoot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">They currently help 680 schoolchildren and 120 daycare children. They also monitor these children&#8217;s progress as they grow so they can continue their studies at university or in technical courses. Thanks to this support, 17 young people are currently attending university and 5 are taking technical courses in nursing, physical education, and agricultural technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">When they began this work in 1998, many children never attended school, and some were dying due to lack of medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">The Congregation manages the support received from benefactors who wish to help one of these children with a small annual fee to support their education and other needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">The International Coordination congratulated them for this important humanitarian and Samaritan work they are carrying out, and they have been able to see the fruits of this initiative through the well-being and joy of these children.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the visit to Mozambique last July by the International Coordinator and Secretary, Lorena Rodr\u00edguez and Purificaci\u00f3n Vilar, they had the opportunity to spend time with the Congregation of St. John the Baptist in Nampula<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15712,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions\/15712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}