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Chacachacare rich with history
ANJANI GANASE looks at one of TT’s tiny islands,
Chacachacare
The most westerly and possibly the farthest isle away from Tobago in the same country is Chacachacare. It lies in the Bocas, the body of water that separates the northwest peninsula of Trinidad from Venezuela.
This island is a reflection of our human history from colonisation, slavery, revolutions, agriculture, war and disease.
Today, Chacachacare is visited by boaters and hikers who take the half-hour trek west to the island to swim in calm sheltered bays and wander the overgrown roads that lead to the lighthouse in the north, and to the famous salt pond in the south, on paths that have been trodden for hundreds of years.
Chicago Journalist, Author Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk, Explores How Dominican Literary Center Taught Immigrant Women Freedom, Confidence Through English Lessons
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Since 1993, the Dominican Literacy Center in Aurora has been a trusted resource offering one-to-one tutoring to immigrants wanting to learn English and to help them become citizens in their new homeland. Led by the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, the center has become a place offering inspiration, hope, confidence, comfort and safety for those escaping the many stressful and dangerous situations that many immigrants, especially women, face.
Chicago-based author and journalist Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk debuts her new book “We Are Eagles: Inspiring Stories of Immigrant Women Who Took Bold Steps in Life Through Literacy.”
In his encyclical
Laudato si he says the current ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion .
Marie-Hélène Lafage, an urban planner in the French city of Lyon, says the pope is right to call Christians to an ecological conversion.
A leader in the Boys Scouts and Girl Guides of France, she is also local policy consultant on ecological transition and vice president of Altercathos , an association of lay Catholics in Lyon who are committed to promoting the Church s social teaching.
Lafage recently traveled throughout France to see the various ecological initiatives that have sprung up within the Church.