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The sisters entered health care in 1879 when St. Joseph's
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The sisters are active in a variety of ministries. The congregation is a participating supporter of the Sister Water
Project, a program of the Sisters of St. Francis of Dubuque, Iowa which has completed/restored over 140 well projects in Tanzania and 20 water systems in Honduras, providing a clean
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Sisters of the Humility of Mary work in education, healthcare and social service primarily in the diocese of Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh. Through the Catholic Migrant Farmworkers Network they raise awareness about human trafficking. There is also a member working in Haiti. The
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The "blue nuns" went to farmhouses to protect children from contagious disease and cared for injured railroad workers in a small clinic at their motherhouse. They undertook the care of orphans and the work to which they had pledged themselves, and were soon able to enlarge the buildings (1869 and
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Cleveland not only gave his approval, but invited the whole community to settle in his diocese. The sisters, accompanied by Begel, set sail 30 May 1864, and on their arrival took possession of a farm of 250 acres (1.0 km) near
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crippled children. Two more Ohio hospitals came under the direction of the sisters - St. Joseph Health Center in Warren in 1924 and St. Joseph in Lorain in 1927. By 2011,
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