Women unlock their safe to collect and distribute loan money to the rest of their microfinance group. Photo by Mikaele Sansone/CRS

Fr. Kevin Feeney, Vice President and Dean of Formation at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago, IL, recently traveled with a group of seminarians to Burkina Faso and Ghana. The trip was part of CRS’ Global Fellows program, a grassroots speaking initiative that draws on the talents of Catholic priests, deacons and seminarians to spread the Gospel message and the mission of CRS in parishes throughout the country. The group visited a women’s fair trade cooperative and a microfinance group supported by CRS.

We travelled to a small boutique which had been made possible by “Collaboration with Women in Distress” (COLWOD) a charitable organization founded to help abandoned women.
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