Friday, 23 November 2012

Sisters of charity




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Sisters walk along the grounds of the Phyar Phyu Home in Taunggyi, Burma. The home br is an orphanage and care center for the elderly and disabled.A blind woman keeps a sort of vigil over a young mentally disabled girl at Phyar Phyu br Home in Taunggyi, Burma.Residents at the Nuang Kan Leper Colony wait for their food rations in Kengtung, Burma.A sister presides over a group of young children at an orphanage in Kengtung, Burma.The Nuang Kan Leper Colony in Kengtung, eastern Shan state, Burma.A portrait of a resident at her home at the Nuang Kan Leper Colony in Kengtung, Burma. The colony is run by the Sisters of Charity.A portrait of an elderly blind woman at the Nuang Kan Leper Colony in Kengtung, Burma.Young orphan girls crowd around a sister at the Phyar Phyu Home in Taunggyi, Burma.Two mentally disabled men look out of their room window at the Phyar Phyu Home in br Taunggyi, Burma.A catholic cemetery overlooking the vast mountains in Kengtung, Burma.



By Aaron Joel Santos


These photographs represent the beginning sketches in an ongoing work on the Sisters of Charity organisation, and on faith and duty in an unforgiving landscape. Within Shan state, the Sisters of Charity run numerous orphanages and care centers for the elderly and handicapped, as well as a leper colony on the outskirts of Kengtung. With little to no official government assistance, the organisation relies on donors and various fundings to survive. The sisters themselves have all taken vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty, and have dedicated their lives to serving others. In a way, their faith has isolated them in the same way that the diseases have isolated those they now help. They are at once close and distant to those around them, teaching their faith to the once faithless, their hearts working tirelessly amidst lands most have long since forgotten.






Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2012/11/23/sisters-of-charity-2/
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