Located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bottomley Home provides a safe place for 130 girls to grow up. According to Orphan Trust, these girls would "otherwise be living in the streets, battling for survival." Instead, they grow up in the safety and protection offered by the Associates of Mary, Queen of Apostles (SMRA), a women's religious order that operates the orphanage and runs the associated school. Bottomley was originally a school, but at the end of World War II, it also became an orphanage to serve the many children whose parents were killed. The sisters continue the important mission of raising, forming, and educating young women to this day. Many of the girls go on to hold careers as teachers or nurses.
PROJECT UPDATES
Nursing Patients & Dreams
Summer 2022
Your selfless giving has supported ten nursing students enrolled at Sr. Mary's Catholic Nursing Institute in Bangladesh to be able to continue their studies! This nursing school, along with the St Mary's Mother and Child Care Hospital, is run by the SMRA Sisters in Tumilia, Gazipur area. These first-year students are abundantly grateful for your contributions toward their education and are
eager to aid their surrounding community and pave the path out of poverty!
Christmas Cheer
December 2017
After visiting Bangladesh and Bottomley Home last December, our Executive Director, Deacon Rick Medina, made sure to include these amazing girls in our yearly Christmas Miracle program. For the last several years, this program has provided food for children in the Indian subcontinent.
Thanks to your generous support of this program, we were able to provide meat and eggs for a special Christmas meal, as Nell as beautiful new dresses for the girls to wear.
Thank you for making Christmas 2017 truly Christmas to remember for the orphans and sisters.
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