Word: chari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roadblocks make getting out difficult for the refugees. Families often have to break up in order to slip away individually, usually by roundabout paths or jungle streams. In Quinhon. where the refugees are arriving at the rate of 300 a day, the homeless receive food from Catholic chari ties and medical care from American Franciscan sisters-though disease is inevitable in the fetid shantytowns...
...houses of study for various orders, giving rise to the nickname "Little Rome." One-third of the 5,300 students are nuns, priests and other religious. The effect is unusual-pretty coeds in skirts and sweaters mixing with bearded Capuchin brothers in robes and sandals and studious Sisters of Chari ty in swooping white headdresses...