Eucharia Madueke

Eucharia Madueke is a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from Nigeria. With an academic background in education, religion, development and public policy, she has taught on the secondary and university levels in Nigeria and the United States. She has led many workshops in Africa in grassroots organizing and advocacy centered around Catholic social teaching. She served as provincial of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Nigerian Province. Currently, she is the women's empowerment project coordinator for the Africa Faith and Justice Network, a religious nonprofit organization that focuses on U.S.-Africa relations.

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Sr. Teresa Anyabuike, a member of the African Faith and Justice Network, bottom middle, poses with students after a seminar about child abuse and human trafficking in Abuja, Nigeria. Sr. Eucharia Madueke writes that GSR has made the AFJN's Women Empowerment Project credible to the public and inspired sisters within and outside Africa. (CNS/Courtesy of Sr. Eucharia Madueke)

GSR amplifies voices and activities of African sisters beyond the continent

Global Sisters Report, with its global outreach and trusted reputation, has been a real gift to African sisters and to me, in my capacity as the coordinator of Africa Faith and Justice Network's Women Empowerment Project.

A sister participates in a community engagement session run by the Africa Faith and Justice/Ghana Network. The program aims to educate people about the harms of early or child marriage and find ways to end this longstanding tradition. (Courtesy of Eucharia Madueke)

Through Africa Faith and Justice Network, sisters fight early marriage in Ghana

A Conrad Hilton Sisters Initiative program in Ghana is helping communities recognize the physical, economic, social and emotional harm that early marriage brings to individuals, families and communities.

 

Sr. Bibiana Emenaha of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul speaks to students in February 2019 at a rural school in Edo, Nigeria, on the dangers of trafficking. (CNS/Courtesy of the Committee for the Support of Dignity of Women)

Communities see anti-trafficking successes in Nigeria's Edo state

Since 2017, when the Africa Faith and Justice Network trained and mobilized Catholic sisters to tackle the menace of human trafficking, grassroots engagement has empowered local communities make change.

Sisters from across Zambia attended a workshop in November 2021 in Makeni, Lusaka, on advocacy against human trafficking. The sisters stand with the signs they made as part of their awareness-raising efforts. (Sr. Eucharia Madueke)

Breaking the silence of human trafficking: Catholic sisters in Zambia speak out

A workshop helped sisters from across Zambia mobilize against human trafficking. Sisters raised awareness via radio and TV, advocated for government action, and pledged to continue work in their communities.

Advocating for porters in Ghana

Sisters confront Nigeria trafficking

The power of African Catholic nuns needs to be unleashed

A dream coming true: Mobilizing African sisters for systemic change

That they may be one: Diversity within the communities of Catholic sisters in Nigeria

Human trafficking in Nigeria: Sisters provide services, seek greater justice for all

Teaching Africa’s reality: Challenges, joys and hope for the future

Women working with women: African Catholic nuns transform their communities

Equality or complementarity: Gender relations seen through African eyes