“I know God is healing me.”

“I know God is healing me.”

Andrea Chávez, 16, is serving a sentence of nine years and ten months in a Detention Centre for Minors in Guatemala. Andrea was eight when her mother died and the family disintegrated. At 11 she was sexually abused, began using drugs and joined a criminal gang. A time...
Hope in the darkest places

Hope in the darkest places

The women who pass through the doors of the Vanier Centre for Women have usually been victims of tremendous abuse and untreated mental health issues. The women also are criminals, often multiple times. Within the Centre, the specific program I run is for women who are...