The grain mill
In the village of Zépréguhé, in Côte d’Ivoire, a grain mill was blessed.
Completed projects
In the places where we live and work, practical projects have taken shape: a grain mill, a sewing workshop, a health centre, a training centre.
This page gathers these projects country by country, and it grows as we document more. What is not yet completed is presented as such. The Côte d’Ivoire entries are taken from the former website: their history and dates remain to be completed with the congregation.
The farming and livestock sector
In Siably, near Man, where the sisters first settled in Côte d’Ivoire in 1969, the farming and livestock sector came back to life.
Vocational training in sewing for young people
In Bouaké, the sisters’ second post in Côte d’Ivoire since 1970, young people were trained in sewing.
The Nicole Roland library
At the Sainte-Ursule school in Cocody-Attoban, Abidjan, the Nicole Roland library and resource centre, named after the founder of the École Jules Verne, was inaugurated on 27 May 2025. It was donated by the École Jules Verne, in partnership with the Fondation d’Augustin and the Kynome art gallery.
The Sainte-Ursule farming and training centre of Mount Ziama
The first farming and livestock activities were launched in Sérédou, then grew step by step around crop production, livestock and the processing of produce. The centre trains young people, women and producers.
Training in integrated farming, on the Songhaï model
On arriving in Sérédou in 2016, one of the sisters learns of a call from the Songhaï Centre in Benin, which trains young African leaders to reproduce its model in their own countries. She completes six months of intensive training in integrated farming. On her return, what she has learned is put into practice and the Complexe Sainte-Ursule takes shape little by little.
Savings for young people in training
In 2017, the Complexe Sainte-Ursule set up a savings programme with a partner insurer. The aim is to allow every young person in training, or working, at the farming and training centre to build up savings little by little, so as to have capital when starting their own activity, while also enjoying financial protection for themselves and their family.
Literacy classes in the communities
Sisters go out to the communities to teach reading and writing. The tenth-anniversary magazine places this in Sérédou in August 2018, under the heading “Promoting education for all women”.
The Sainte-Ursule health centre
The centre provides consultations, medical tests and care for the sisters, the staff, the trainees and the people living nearby.
Planned · Guinea
The school of excellence
Conceived for many years as the culmination of the Complexe’s project, the school would offer a quality education, with a boarding house, a canteen, dormitories, school supplies and computer equipment. Every child, whatever their social background, could learn there in a healthy environment, be properly fed, receive proper health care and a complete education. The community would like it to be mixed, open to boys as well as girls, and hopes in particular to help girls go further in their studies. It is the great undertaking of the coming decade.
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