This series contains material from the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario's involvement in Nicaragua. It primarily includes the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch and Sister Marie Celine Janisse, Sister Janet Zadorsky, and Sister Teresa Ryan's work assisting refugees near Managua, Nicaragua from December 1998 to January 1999, with another visit in 2000. There is correspondence, news clippings, and a disassembled scrapbook. There are also photographs from Sister Theresa Carmel Slavik and Sister Patricia Hogan's visit to Nicaragua in 1983.
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada (London, Ont.)This file contains the pages of a scrapbook created by Sister Marie Celine Janisse about her time in Central America. It includes the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua and Sister Marie Celine Janisse, Sister Janet Zadorsky, and Sister Teresa Ryan's work assisting refugees near Managua, Nicaragua. The scrapbook includes photographs, photocopies of photographs, post cards, news clippings, newsletters, correspondence, and pamphlets. Content warning: contains graphic imagery of environmental destruction, injured people, and the bodies of the deceased in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch.
This file contains correspondence from Sister Teresa Ryan about her time in Nicaragua in 2000.
This file contains correspondence and news clippings about the Sisters work in Nicaragua.
This file contains photographs from Sister Theresa Carmel Slavik and Sister Patricia Hogan’s visit to Nicaragua. These photographs primarily depict damaged buildings, billboards, patients and medical facilities, medical staff, children, the painting of a mural, and a library.