The CLT is happy to announce the new leadership teams for Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Ireland and England.

The TOIR International Renewal Programme is designed to energise people to respond sensitively to the needs of our world in the spirit of Nano Nagle & Edmund Rice. Applications for TOIR 2009 should be submitted by 20 December 2008.

During May 2008 the Central Leadership Team organised meetings in Dublin, Ballygriffin and Mount St. Anne’s, Portarlington to which friends of Nano from the three Irish provinces were invited. For photos, click here.

On 5 May 2008, Prema Antony pbvm made a presentation at a side event of the Commission on Sustainable Development of the United Nations. The presentation related to the feature story above.

Messages to Prema.

It was fitting that Nano's anniversary was chosen to witness the First Profession of three women, Josephine Shanthi, Flora and Sheeba who find it meaningful to continue the work of Nano, in Pratishtha Niketan, Bhopal.

Sr. Sharon Altendorf has just completed a term of eight years as the IPA NGO Representative at the United Nations. She is replaced by Sr. Fatima Rodrigo who leaves India on 28 June 2008 to take up her new role.

Messages to Sharon and Fatima

On 30th May 2008, the trustee files of the voluntary secondary schools of the Northern Province in Ireland were handed over to CEIST. The ceremony included a prayer service which honoured the contribution of Presentation Sisters and their colleagues to education. The trusteeship of the schools of all three Irish provinces is now exercised by CEIST, which is a new joint venture between five Irish congregations.

A new reflection has been added to mark the occasion.

'Making a Difference' was the theme of this year's Annual gathering of Associates and Sisters from all over the English Province. The group met in a Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Mackworth which is near Derby - a central point for the Province.