The OLA Sisters opened their most recent mission in Botswana in 2008. This small community witnesses to the internationality of the OLA Congregation with Sisters Bernadette Mc Carthy & Doris Gyan from Ghana, Cynthia Nwadike from Nigeria and Marie Colette Soubeiga from Burkina Faso the OLA pioneers in opening this mission.

Botswana is a vast country in Southern Africa with a relatively small population of approx 2 million inhabitants. The Kalahari desert makes up about 70% of its land mass.

While Botswana has remained a very peaceful country since independence in 1966 and had made good progress in relation to economic development, it is a country ravaged by the effects of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. THE OLA Sisters responded to the call to come to Botswana and continue their mission of evangelization today by helping the people of Botswana to fight this HIV and AIDS crisis.

The Sisters live in Maun in Ngamiland in the North of the country. To learn more about the work of the OLAs in Botswana, click here