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BROTHER CHRIS SWEENEY, S.C. is part of a team of four brothers and many dedicated laypeople who have revived a Catholic school in Mozambique, a country where only eight percent of children go to high school and over half live in poverty.
Starting over from scratch Text by Carol Schuck Scheiber Photos courtesy of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart with special thanks to Brother Chris Sweeney, S.C.
Carol Schuck Scheiber is VISION’s content editor and publications editor for the National Religious Vocation Conference.
Moving from New Orleans to Mozambique was dramatic enough. But for Brother Chris Sweeney, S.C. rebuilding an abandoned school out of the ashes of civil war has made life really interesting.
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ROTHER CHRIS SWEENEY, S.C. arrived in Amatongas, Mozambique in 2011 fresh from New Orleans, Louisiana and ready to tackle a formidable job. He and three other brothers were given the assignment of reestablishing a Catholic boarding school that needed just about everything: money, desks, equipment, gardens for feeding the boys who lived there, and animals for food, among other essentials. Refounding a school is a big job anywhere, but in a place ravaged by war and beset by extreme poverty, the Amatongas school has been a particularly daunting task—but one Sweeney loves.
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