By Sr. Dr. Marian Scena, MMM A year ago, a 28-year-old high school teacher came to be admitted to our Faraja Hospice and Palliative Care Programme. His name is “James”. Four years ago, James got a rash below his left eye which developed into a tumour. He did all the […]
READ MORE: We Can Do SomethingBy Sr. Helen McKenna, MMM “We go… where human need is greatest”. (MMM Mission Statement) Mother Mary, our foundress, prior to World War One, was a young lady of an Aristocratic family living in the suburbs of Dublin. Her daily activities would have included organising private garden parties, playing tennis […]
READ MORE: Making New PathsBy Sr. Bernadette Fadegnon, MMM The State in Mato Grosso, where we are located, sponsored a course in Integrative Community Therapy for the health workers in the state. Because of the partnership we have with the Secretary of Health of our district of Alto Boa Vista, this opportunity was made […]
READ MORE: Integrative Community Therapy – The Healing Power of the HeartBy Sr. Maria Jose da Silva, MMM Sr. Maria Jose da Silva, MMM who comes from the south of Brazil in Parana State shares her personal experience of a visit home… “I was in Parana in September this year and the smell of the smoke from the fires around the […]
READ MORE: The World is on Fire!by Sr. Cordelia Nwaokike, MMM, Benin City, Nigeria Ikechukwu Onyenuma, 29 years old, is a naturally talented and vibrant young man. He comes from the eastern part of our country, Nigeria. You can sense, from the first conversation with him, that he is somebody who loves life and the people […]
READ MORE: A Story of CareThis is the exclamation of many overseas visitors to MMM communities in Africa and Latin America. Often MMMs can be found “at the end of the road”. Why? MMMs tend to go where no one else is willing to go. We go to remote rural areas, like Turkana or Maasailand, […]
READ MORE: Why did you choose such a place?What is malaria and how do you get it? Malaria is a life-threatening disease, usually spread to humans by some types of mosquitoes. It is mostly found in tropical countries. It is preventable and curable. The infection is caused by a parasite and does not spread from person to person. […]
READ MORE: Update on MalariaOur third Annual Craft Fair will be held in the MMM Auditorium on Saturday, November 23rd. It will be the last one in this venue as the MMM Auditorium will be part of the new Drogheda Hospice which is being built around this site. It will not be the end […]
READ MORE: Annual Craft Fair on the Way!This summer, Sr Rita Kelly, MMM gave a presentation at a significant conference at Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at the University of Oxford. The Las Casas Institute brings together a growing academic family or community of scholars, mainly lay women and men, who draw on the rich tradition […]
READ MORE: MMM Sister Invited to Speak at Conference in OxfordSafeBirth4All is promoted by a coalition of organisations including the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMMs), the Association of Leaders of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland (AMRI) and Geneva for Human Rights. The newly launched campaign seeks to raise awareness of the wider issues of human rights and human dignity as […]
READ MORE: Safe Birth 4 All Campaign Launch