Naomi Nkrumah

Naomi Nkrumah

Naomi Nkrumah is a member of the Institute of the Sisters of St Louis from Ghana, West Africa. With a passion for working with children and young people, Naomi pursued a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Education, Winneba. She enjoys reading, gardening. listening to national events and sports. She volunteered in Ethiopia, specifically in Tigray and Dawhan, but due to the civil war, she returned to Ghana where she continues to teach and serves as a safeguarding and vulnerable adult coordinator for her institute.

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Zoom training session

Pandemic challenges open door to new training format

The COVID-19 pandemic limited traveling. But through online sessions, many more sisters can now benefit from educational programs than the few who were chosen to travel in the past.

An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, carries her child near the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border Nov. 22, 2020. (CNS/Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

Sisters work to help war victims in Tigray, Ethiopia

A woman named Roasa Ammuel shared her terrible story with St. Louis Sr. Naomi Nkrumah to let the world know what is happening to women and children amid the war in the Tigray region in Ethiopia.

An 8-year-old girl receives treatment at Ethiopia's Dubti Referral Hospital Feb. 24. The girl lost her left hand from explosives left near her house.

The tragedy of the hidden war in Ethiopia's Tigray region

My heart is breaking for what is going on in Tigray, Ethiopia, where I served on a missionary team for the Sisters of St. Louis. The civil war there has killed thousands of people and internally displaced millions.

The landscape of Dawhan, Ethiopia, is seen beyond the Catholic kindergarten in 2016. (GSR photo/Melanie Lidman)

Missionary work, war, COVID-19 and climate change in Ethiopia

Living in Ethiopia has convinced me that we have been called to take part in healing the suffering of Mother Earth and to realize that God is doing something new in our lives, particularly regarding climate.

Woman in a Kindergarten room surrounded by children

The troubles in the Tigray region of Ethiopia

Tension between the Tigray region and the federal government of Ethiopia has been ongoing since I first arrived in Dawhan in 2019.