MMM Blog

The Gift of a New Baby

by Sr. Ifeoma R. Ifedi MMM Nigeria 08.07.2023 Every new child comes with the newness of the divine. Baby A, one of our recent newborns, is a gift to us although she did come with many challenges. […]

Astelle’s Dilemma: Marriage or Education?

by Sr. Radegunda Shayo MMM Tanzania 06.07.2023 Editor’s Note: Sr. Radegunda told this story while she was working as a missionary in the Republic of Benin. Astelle had never been to school. Her younger brothers were sent to school, […]

Dancing Goats:Learning to enjoy coffee

by Sr. Nuala Horgan MMM Ireland 04.07.2023 The word “coffee” comes from a place called Kaffa, which is just two hours’ drive down the road from a hospital once run by MMM in Wolisso, Ethiopia. There is a […]

An Ordinary Day in the Mountains

by Sr. Bernadette Heneghan MMM Ireland 02.07.2023 Between 2001 and 2021 I lived in Honduras and for some time, I lived with two other MMMs in Marcala, a mountainous region, home to the Lenca Indigenous people. I was involved in health education […]

Oh, Give me a Pity! – a poem looking at the light side of life

by Sr. Sheila Campbell MMM Ireland 30.06.2023 Recently someone gave me a copy of a poem which our late Sr. Immaculata Nichols (2017 – 2002) loved and used as a “party piece”. I thought I would share […]

Going Far: The Many Ways MMMs Collaborate to Create a Healing Community.

by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communictions Coordinator 28.06.2023 There is a wise African Proverb that says “If you want to go fast go alone but if you want to go far go together.” We often quote this proverb in our Communication Department because collaboration […]