My name is Maureen and at present I live at Greenwich, London. I have spent most of my life in teaching, formation and in administration. I am still in touch with many of my former students from the various schools in which I taught. In the year 2000 I visited the Philippines to help Sr Johanna with her project for the homeless and scavenger people in Payatas. It was a humbling and challenging experience for me in so many ways.           Maureen’s friend is Johanna. Johanna is an Indonesian Ursuline working in the Philippines. She visited England in 2000 to support our campaign to help her project. She returned late June a few days before disaster struck the Payatas “Smokey Valley” when hundreds of her “extended family” perished in a landslide of rubbish which engulfed them all. Johanna could usually be seen around Payatas with her trademark baseball cap for a sunshield. Her work has now been extended to cover the island of Mindanao as well as on Luzon where Payatas is situated on the outskirts of Manila. Johanna works with children with multiple handicaps, many of whom have been abandoned by their families. I am privileged to have such a person as my friend across the world working for justice in the Kingdom.