SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR COMMITMENT TO THE SDGs

SNDdeN  have a long tradition of engagement in addressing poverty (SDG 1), health (SDG 3)   education (SDG 4), and More recently they have developed a project aimed at SDG 6 (access to potable water) and SDG 7 (renewable energy) through mobilizing a global north-south project of collaboration (SDG 17) to bring water and electricity to parts of rural Africa.  The photo-voltaic project called “The Power of the SUN”, was piloted first at the Cuvilly Arts and Earth Center in Ipswich, MA (USA) before being installed in communities in both the DR Congo and Nigeria providing electricity, technology for communications, water purification and sanitation. The project serves the SNDdeN communities as well as their health and educational institutions, other convents and the population.

Additionally, today a “pure water project” of the SNDdeN in the Ohio Province, with the help of their Mission Partners, now provides clean water for Notre Dame sites in Zimbabwe and Kenya, as well as Brazil and Peru. 

In these ways, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur are partnering with others (SDG 17) to expand the reach of the SDGs.