El Proyecto
de las Rosas began classes in English as a Second Language in
Tipton and Woodville, two farming communities in the Central
Valley of California in October 2006. These communities
are located in one of the most underserved areas of California.
The Proyecto is located on South Smith Road on Tipton. For
more information, call (559) 752-4603.
Established in 1994, the Learning and Loving Center was founded as a
response to the need in the Morgan Hill community to empower immigrant
women to learn English and encourage women to use their gifts and
talents in building relationships among themselves, their families, and
the community. (Morgan Hill is a city south of San Jose that is still
agricultural but which is also now experiencing a housing boom and
becoming a bedroom community for the Silicon Valley)
The Center endeavors to work with women for change through education,
and to support them in the process. Daytime classes strive to increase
literacy, teach computer skills, improve and enrich the lives of the
students empower women to achieve higher education and better jobs,
improve health care, and improve self-esteem for a brighter future for
themselves, their families, and their communities.
The roots of Presentation High School are deeply planted in the heritage
and ministry of the Sisters of the Presentation. Strengthened and
challenged by that heritage and dedicated to the ministry of secondary
education, the Sisters of the Presentation responded to the needs of the
rapidly growing and developing Santa Clara Valley. In 1962, Presentation
High School, a Catholic four year high school for young women, was
opened. Built in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, the first
seventy students graduated in 1966. Since then, over 4,000 young women
have benefited from the excellent education provided at Presentation
High School and they have become productive, vital, and ethical members
of their communities, work places, and families.
Presentation Center is a retreat and conference facility nestled in the
Santa Cruz Mountains just a half-hour drive from downtown San Jose and
the Silicon Valley. The Center directly promotes all forms of life
within the environment but in a special way addresses human needs by
helping people discover God in themselves, the natural beauty of their
surroundings, and in the goodness of those around them. Whether guests
come to participate in a formal retreat experience or to spend time
alone in the quiet beauty of the mountain atmosphere, they experience a
respite from the stresses of society.
The Reverend Glenda Hope, a Presbyterian minister, is the founder of
SafeHouse. As the founder/director of San Francisco Network Ministries,
she has worked in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco since 1972.
During those years, she came to know many prostituted women and a few
women who had made it out of "the life," creating new lives for
themselves. All of these women said that the number one need of women
seeking to leave prostitution permanently is a safe, supportive place to
live, where they can work on transforming their lives. In January 1998
San Francisco Network Ministries and the Sisters of the Presentation
opened SafeHouse. Given the need to protect the anonymity of the
residents of SafeHouse, no photographs are used in any type of
informational or promotional materials.
The Lantern
(La Linterna) Center for Hospitality and Education opened in
October 2006 to provide English and computer classes, as well as
hospitality, for men and women in the immigrant community of San
Francisco’s Mission District.
It is located
at 3106 Folsom Street (cross street Cesar Chavez). For
more information call Sister Maire Sullivan, PBVM, at (415) 401-7379.
