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THE MSOLA LEADERSHIP
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THE GENERAL COUNCIL IN ROME
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THE PROVINCIAL TEAMS African Province (Nairobi, Kenya) |
Sr. Maria del Pilar (Piluca) Benavente Serrano from Spain(second left) |
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The superior general, Sr. Piluca Benavente Serrano Born in Spain (Alcañiz - Teruel) in 1948, she is the eldest of nine children. Her ability for music, and her studies of nursing that she made in Spain, have been an asset all through her missionary life. She made her apostolic experience in Burkina Faso and her novitiate in Toulouse, France. She made her first vows in March 1976. She speaks several languages: Spanish, French, English, Italian and literary Arabic, which she learned during her two years of studies in the PISAI (Pontifical Institute of Arabic Studies) in 1977-78. When she arrived in Maghreb Province in 1978, Piluca first spent four years in Mauritania, resuming her nursing career in the clinic at Nouakchott. Then she returned to Toulouse in 1983 to help in the formation of postulants. It was there that she made her final commitment in October 1983. In 1987 she went back to Maghreb, to Algeria this time. She was in charge of the pastoral care of the African students in the Algiers area. She took part in the 1993 Chapter, where she was elected an Assistant General, an appointment that was renewed at the 1999 Chapter. At the Chapter of 2005, she was elected as Superior General. Sr. Hélène Mbuyamba Mujinga, General Assistant Born in 1953, Congolese (from eastern Kasai), Hélène entered the Congregation in September 1986, with a qualification to teach French and applied African Linguistics. She made her postulate in Toulouse (France) and the noviciate in Lyon (France). She made her first vows in September 1990. In between these two periods, she was sent to Burkina Faso for her apostolic experience. She returned later to the same country. She already spoke several languages - French, Lingala, Ciluba and Swahili - and added Bambara, which she learned in Burkina Faso. In 1996-97, she learned English and studied for a year in Ireland to equip herself to become a formator. Very shortly after her final commitment in Bobo Dioulasso in September 1997, she was appointed mistress of novices. She participated in the 1999 Chapter, and was elected Assistant General at the 2005 Chapter. Sr. Marie-Alice Terrettaz, General Assistant Marie-Alice was born in 1963 and comes from Switzerland. When she entered the Congregation in January 1987, Marie-Alice was equipped with a dual training in business and secretarial work and in nursing. She had had a year's nursing experience after gaining her nursing diploma. Her religious formation began in Toulouse, France, then in Butare in Rwanda. In between, she had the two-year apostolic experience in a clinic and maternity unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After her first vows in September 1991 in Butare, Marie-Alice was sent to Burundi to a new community concentrating on social welfare and preventive medicine. After that, she returned to France for a year of doctrinal studies in Paris, followed by another year of "training for religious formators". She was in charge of the initial formation, first in Bukavu and then in the postulate in Goma, both in DR Congo. It was from there that she came to the 2005 Chapter - having also attended the 1999 one - which elected her an Assistant General. Sr. Chantal Vankalck, General Assistant From 1989 to 1991, Chantal worked in Uganda as nurse and midwife. In 1993, she arrived in Maghreb, first in Algeria and then in Tunisia. After two years studying Arabic at the Pontifical Institute of Arabic Studies (PISAI) at Rome, in 1991, she became responsible for a library for secondary school pupils in Tunisia. She was very actively involved with newly arrived religious and priests, whom she introduced to the country. She was sent as delegate to the 2005 Chapter, where she was elected General Assistant .
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 Sr. Piluca Benavente Serrano |
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 Sr. Marie-Alice Terrettaz |
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 Sr. Chantal Vankalck |
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(Belgium, France/Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom) The Provincial Superior is Sr. Helga Franke, from Germany. On the picture from left to right: United Kingdom. The regional is Sr. Catherine Booth, from England. She has worked in Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya. Belgium: The regional is Sr Lucienne Reynders, she has worked in DR Congo. Spain: The regional is Sr. Carmen Garcia Sedeño. She has worked in Burkina Faso. France-Switzerland: The regional is Sr Marie Josée Blain. She has worked in Burkina Faso. The Netherlands' regional is Sr. Jeanne Simons. She has worked in Tanzania. Germany: The regional is Sr Elisabeth Biela. She has worked in Ghana.
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