Sister Kathleen Keck:  

For some 50 plus years I have had a remarkable life, as a Franciscan Sister (Catholic Nun) and have had the joy of living and serving Gods people. Twenty three of those years were spent in the Rain Forest in Bolivia, the last 8 years in the Amazon of Bolivia. Were the joy of teaching adults to read,write and get their elementary, junior high and high school education. Many were teachers who were teaching in three grades schools. While they themselves had only a third grade education. Now that program is continuing on being funded by the Bolivian Government. We lived (two of us a Sister Nurse and my self) for 7 of the last 8 years in a building that had been built to store Brazil nuts, instead two Franciscan nuts lived there. No running water, or electricity. It was a real challenge and a great Joy. Now due to health I am not able to return although my heart is there. The years not in Bolivia I taught mostly first and second grades together in very small black schools as integration was still not a part of life here in our southern states. Other years in Miami at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church I was a parish minister visiting homes, running the youth program and other...Expand for more