Sisters of Notre Dame in Mexico
Our mission work started here in 1985

Our American Sister, Janet Grim SND, has accompanied the people of Guadalajara, in the state Jalisco, Mexico for 15 years.  After having fallen in love with Guadalajara and its people during a9-week summer session with the SND collaborative program titled "Spanish Education for Women,"  (founded in 1985 by Srs. Nancy Haines, Denise Curry, and Ms. Debbie Polhamus) Sr. Janet took up residency in Guadalajara in 1988.

Sr. Janet funds her mission by teaching English as a second language at ITESO Instituo Technologico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, the Jesuit University founded by concerned parents of Jesuit high school students in 1955.  She lives with a Mexican family and volunteers in pastoral work with the Comunidades Eclesiales de Base in a poor section of the city called Cerro del Cuatro in a small chapel community called San Ambrosio. 

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For the past 20 years, Sr. Denise Curry has traveled from the mid-Atlantic area of the United States to Mexico, where she has spent each summer in a program of education for women, which she helped design. She is photographed here with Jorge Barajas, a son of the Mexican family with whom she has stayed for years. She met Jorge when he was 15 years old. He is now married with a small child and works in a Jesuit labor-rights organization.
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Ministries in Mexico:

• Education
• Social Service
• Pastoral Service

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