Loretto Africa Project began in 1984 when two Sisters of Loretto went to Ghana to offer workshops at the Center For Spiritual Renewal in Kumasi, Ghana. They offered workshops on management, counseling and how to improve work with young sisters, priests and brothers.
Two sisters, Catherine Mueller SL and Marie Ego SL, returned the next year to offer more workshops to those who were in formation or who worked with these young religious.
Thus began an 18-year commitment for Marie to the people of Ghana. She focused on courses in various aspects of psychology, such as growth and development and counseling. In the early 1990s another sister, Pauline Albin SL, came to see if she would like to join the project. She taught in a school and later went to work in the office of the Sunyani Diocese where she works now.In addition, twenty Loretto Community members have worked with the project for short and long commitments of a couple of years to a few weeks. Each person has offered something to people in Ghana and has received a hundred fold in the experience.
As the project grew so did a relationship with an indigenous Ghanaian Community, the Daughters of the Blessed Trinity or FST Sisters. The relationship was formalized to a Sister Community relationship and a joint project of building a school in a poor village began in 2005. At this time there is work being done on a survey of the land and fund raising is in process.