In 1973, Sister Mary Lillian of the Associates of Mary Queen of the Apostles co-founded CORR-The Jute Works, which trains women artisans, ensuring trade justice, market access and improved living standards.
Sr. Mary Rina Magdeline Cruze of the Associates of Mary Queen of the Apostles is principal of the Hindu-founded Kumudini Nursing College, where she educates nurses for Bangladesh and spreads the values of Jesus Christ.
After seeing the work of the nuns at the Catholic Church's 80 health care facilities across Bangladesh, many girls from remote areas now show interest in becoming nurses, which was unimaginable 20 years ago.
Sr. Mary Mitali of the Associates of Mary Queen of the Apostles, seated, talks to participants during a workshop offered by the Episcopal Commission for the Laity in Bangladesh (Courtesy of Mary Mitali)
Dhaka, Bangladesh Sr. Mary Mitali, a member of the Associates of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, has helped transform thousands of laypeople s lives in her six years providing training through her job as office secretary and trainer with the Episcopal Commission for the Laity.
Before attending training, there was a distance between laypeople and religious priests and nuns, but now, laypeople and religious work closely together, Mitali said. The commission also helps laypeople to be a witness of Christ in this Muslim-majority country, where Christians make up less than 1% of the population of 165 million.