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The sisters of Saint
Elisabeth Convent have been rendering spiritual, social and financial
assistance to the sick and the suffering, who stay at the National Psychiatric
Clinic, the boarding home for children with special needs, the boarding home
for mentally challenged adults, the rehabilitation center for mentally
challenged children, the municipal hospital No.2, and a TB clinic for more than fifteen years.
There are over 2,000 patients in the 37 units of the National
Psychiatric Clinic. Our sisters regularly visit these hospital units acknowledging the
importance of giving these people spiritual support and consolation.
There are 125 young patients in the boarding home for children with
special needs who require constant care. Our Sisterhood helps them
with medicines, hygiene kits, wheelchairs, computers and foodstuffs. Our
sisters make embroidery and handicrafts, draw pictures together with the
children and takes care of bedridden patients.
There is a charity shelter founded on the farmstead of
the Convent for people who were led astray by the
rough and tumble of life (the homeless, drug or alcohol addicts, ex-prisoners
and the less able). Over 170 residents
live here today. The Sisterhood itself provides the needy with
comprehensive help: accommodation, meals and necessary medicines, arranges
medical examinations for them, helps to reinstate their identification papers.
Rehabilitation through labor at the farmstead consists of agricultural work in
the fields, greenhouses and gardens, at a cattle and poultry farm as well as at
construction sites and crafts workshops.
A female rehabilitation facility was established in 2012. Women released from jail,
the homeless and the mentally challenged women stay there. The authorities
allocated a plot of land (formerly a military base with only rundown houses
remaining) for our Sisterhood ten miles from Minsk. Today there are 20 women and one toddler at this farmstead. They
perform various tasks depending on the strength and ability of each woman: they
work in the kitchen, in the field, take care of domestic animals and make
handicrafts.
Today you can become part of the ministry. With every purchase that you make through the Catalogue of St.Elisabeth Convent website you can help hundreds of less fortunate.
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