Due to the current pandemic, our regular meeting room was closed the day before the March meeting of Adelante Mujer Board of Directors. Our gathering had to be cancelled. Voting on important issues was conducted by email responses and business pretty much continued as usual. Then, before the Annual Meeting scheduled in July, it was agreed that an in-person, half day session was less than feasible and, besides, the facility for the meeting was still closed to outsiders. This time a 3-hour meeting by Zoom was scheduled and, gratefully, it proceeded without a hitch. The important ministry of Adelante Mujer goes on without an office to work in and without a meeting room for nine devoted women to discuss business in our familiar space. Continue reading “And the Board Works On”
How Students Apply Their Learning
Semester One of 2020 will soon be history for Adelante Mujer students in the Intercultural Medicine program of URACCAN University in northeast Nicaragua. In addition to attending classes, doing assignments, and helping at the hospital, our students often do volunteer work by providing health care to 
family, neighbors, and needy people in the area. Below are ventures of our sixth-year students. Continue reading “How Students Apply Their Learning”
Adelante Mujer’s Secretary
My name is Marie Trebec and I was hired two years ago to serve as part-time secretary at the “international office” of Adelante Mujer, Inc. in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Sister Diane, now the Executive Director, asked me to tell my story as to how this came about and what interests me about the organization. Continue reading “Adelante Mujer’s Secretary”
The “Advance Woman” Woman
The accomplishments and successes of most people are often unrecognized during their lifetime. However, on February 20, 2020 the contrary happened. Sister Ann McKean, CSA, the foundress of Adelante Mujer, was featured by the Illuminating Women Project at the beautiful Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.