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Luise Radlmeier was a Dominican missionary sister who devoted her life to Africans most in need.
Luise was born in Pfeffenhausen, Bavaria in 1937. In 1956, she joined the Dominican Sisters and went to Africa where she would eventually work in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Kenya.
Although Sr. Luise spent a short amount of time working in a university after doing graduate studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris, her greatest contribution was being a “hands-on” missionary to extremely poor persons.
In 1987, for example, while Sr. Luise was teaching in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, she saw young refugees coming to Nairobi asking for help. They were fleeing from the Second Sudanese War, and they found themselves at the Dominican convent where Sr. Luise was living. Sr. Luise helped them by providing them education as well as food and lodging.
By 1990, more Sudanese youth fleeing from a refugee camp in Kakuma, 435 miles (700 Km) north of Nairobi. By the late 1990s, Sr. Luise was raising funds to send 800 Sudanese students each year to basic and vocational schools, both primary and secondary levels.
Sr. Luise was also an excellent leader, getting others to help her financially. In 2002, she left her teaching position to devote herself full-time helping Sudanese refugees. She began the Emmanuel Foundation from her center in Juja, Kenya. Sister Luise received help from organizations such as Caritas Austria, the Christian Foundation for Children and the Aging in Kansas, the Mennonite Central Committee, and Jewish organizations as well as from her home parish in Pfeffenhausen, Germany and via her website.
With her Emmanuel Foundation, Sr. Luise was able to establish several schools, dormitories, a hospital, homes for persons with AIDS and war orphans, a working farm, and a home for the elderly.
In 2006, Sr. Luise received the Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan. This medal is given to outstanding humanitarians whose actions on behalf of the defenseless and oppressed of the world reflect the life of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who rescued tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest, Hungary in the closing months of World War II.
Sr. Luise Radlmeier died on March 12, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.
