Sister Rosemary Research Paper

A hero is by definition, “a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe has courage, made some outstanding achievements, and has noble qualities. Therefore, she is considered a hero. Sister Rosemary is a hero because she takes on challenges, helps young girls, and created a program called “Sewing Hope”. During the Lord’s Resistance, leader Joseph Kony ruined many children's lives, and Sister Rosemary was there to pick up the pieces. He abducted many young girls and boys for child soldiers; they had to live with this the rest of their lives (“I Am A Dreamer”). The LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) abducted the kids at night and took about thirty thousand during the war. The girls were trafficked and were forced to marry soldiers. They became scared to sleep at home and began to walk to the city at night, becoming known as night commuters. “Almost every day, we were housing from three hundred to five hundred children,” Sister

She teaches girls and women to make purses out of soda can tabs. The final result looks amazing. The way they are made is therapeutic (“Sewing Hope with Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe”). As Sister Rosemary quoted, “You can take something nobody wants anymore, and you patiently build something beautiful. Stitching, one stitch at a time. It’s like stitching your life on stitch at a time.” (qt. in “Sister Rosemary Is a One-Woman Army in the Fight against Trafficking”) The bags were called, “pop-top bags” (Lidman, Melanie). Sister Rosemary taught the girls how to sew and make dresses. A story that has always stuck with Sister Rosemary, is about a girl named Susan. Susan was treated worse than everyone else in captivity. She was forced to kill her sister. Sister Rosemary convinced her to go back to school and get a better education. It reminds her that she did something successful (“I Am A