Opus Dei

Macheo ("sunrise" in Swahili) is an after-school support program for students from one of Africa's largest slums, Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is organized and staffed by students and teachers from Strathmore University, a corporate work of Opus Dei.

In this new video in the series on the works of mercy, various people talk about their struggle to forgive others, and the peace that doing so brings into their life.

In response to Pope Francis’ call for practical acts of charity during the Jubilee Year of Mercy, groups of students from Netherhall House, an intercollegiate residence hall in London, have been making trips to Calais to help the refugees stranded there.

Pope Francis encourages us to "never be a family that is closed in on itself." Third video in the series on the works of mercy.

Esteban Viñas, a judge in Argentina, oversees a program that tries to restore hope to young people in prison by teaching them human virtues based on the sport of rugby.

Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, has been working with Naivasha Maximum Prison since 2002 under the Strathmore Prison Education Program. Over the years, Strathmore students and staff have visited the prison to donate learning materials and interact with the prisoners through several platforms like the annual football tournament. Strathmore Community Service Centre also sponsors inmates to pursue accountancy courses.

Second video in the series on the works of mercy. People in Russia and the Philippines are shown fighting material and spiritual hunger.

First video in the series "Just Start. Ways to Help People." Produced in the Jubilee Year of Mercy, these videos seek to help make Pope Francis' desire a reality: that we Christians may contemplate God’s mercy and adopt it as our lifestyle.

An interview with Alice Trimmer, who spent 9 years directing the Rosedale Achievement Center in the Bronx, helping many young women from underprivileged families to live up to their full potential.

A new college of technology with facilities for 800 students was recently inaugurated in a slum district just east of Nairobi, Kenya, where over a million people live in desperate poverty.