--- title: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe by Forest Whitaker: TIME 100 description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70892/rosemary-nyirumbe-2014-time-100/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-23T21:59:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T22:59:11.650Z og:title: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe by Forest Whitaker: TIME 100 og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70892/rosemary-nyirumbe-2014-time-100/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08cf421ed82bd467/69868b9535ba6f2c56c019b9/sister-rosemary-nyirumbe-time-100-feat.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe by Forest Whitaker: TIME 100 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe by Forest Whitaker: TIME 100 twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08cf421ed82bd467/69868b9535ba6f2c56c019b9/sister-rosemary-nyirumbe-time-100-feat.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 23, 2014 # Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe by Forest Whitaker  Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe photographed in Paidha, Uganda, where she was born and raised, giving tour while shooting for the film, Sewing Hope. The picture was taken in October of 2011\. Photo Credit: Derek Watson Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe photographed in Paidha, Uganda, where she was born and raised, giving tour while shooting for the film, Sewing Hope. The picture was taken in October of 2011\. Photo Credit: Derek WatsonDerek Watson In Gulu, Uganda, Sister Rosemary has made it her mission to provide within an orphanage a home, a shelter for women and girls whose lives have been shattered by violence, rape and sexual exploitation. At the Saint Monica Girls’ Tailoring Center she runs, those women can become themselves again, thanks to the security and comfort they feel — a tremendous accomplishment in a country still fragile from years of civil war. But what truly fascinates the people who have the privilege to meet with Sister Rosemary — as I did when I narrated a film about her, _Sewing Hope_ — is her magnetic and contagious energy. For girls who were forcibly enlisted as child soldiers, Sister Rosemary has the power to rekindle a bright light in eyes long gone blank. For women with unwanted children born out of conflict, she allows them to become loving mothers at last. The traumas she heals are unfathomable, but the reach of her love is boundless. _Whitaker is a producer, director and Academy Award–winning actor_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70892/rosemary-nyirumbe-2014-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70892/rosemary-nyirumbe-2014-time-100/"},"headline":"Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe","datePublished":"2014-04-23T21:59:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T22:59:11.650Z","description":"She gives hope for young women scarred by war","url":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70892/rosemary-nyirumbe-2014-time-100/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08cf421ed82bd467/69868b9535ba6f2c56c019b9/sister-rosemary-nyirumbe-time-100-feat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08cf421ed82bd467/69868b9535ba6f2c56c019b9/sister-rosemary-nyirumbe-time-100-feat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70892/rosemary-nyirumbe-2014-time-100/","name":"Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe"}}]}] ```