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  From the Ghardaïa community   On February 22, we welcomed a grandmother over 80 years old, Oumelkher Chamkha, a former student of the White Sisters in the 1960s and a friend of today’s Ghardaïa community. She had come simply to spend the day with us, as she was keen to see the house again, the works of the White Sisters and the materials used for weaving, crocheting, etc., during her studies at the time. Her first impression on arriving in our courtyard was to see that there’s a big wall around the house and, above all, a gate that she found closed. She exclaimed, “At the sisters’ house, the gate is now closed! She was astonished, because in her day, there were no walls or gates. “At the sisters’, you could come and go at any time.” We had the joy of listening to her and spending the day…

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Here’s a nice little video in French featuring our sister Monique Vien, interviewed by one of Quebec’s most popular artists, Mariana Mazza, who is also known for her legendary fieriness! The young comedian, actress and author Mariana has quite a life story! Born in Quebec to a Lebanese mother and Uruguayan father, she also has Italian and Brazilian grandparents and a Quebec father-in-law. A multicultural environment that echoes our congregation, with sisters of 30 different nationalities!   Monique Vien, 50 years older than Mariana, and with experience accumulated in her apostolate in Zambia, Malawi and Algeria (among others), stands up to her in a humorous interview that is also full of truth and tenderness.    

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