Monthly Features

Daring to Hope Exhibition

MMM hosted the AMRI Daring to Hope exhibition on Saturday 27th January. There was a full house at The MMM Auditorium in Drogheda, Ireland. Sr Brigid Corrigan gave a talk on memories of Mother Mary and other pioneering Sisters. The event also honoured the anniversary of Founder Mother Mary’s death. […]

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Empowering Women in Brazil

By Srs. Margaret Nakafu, MMM and Maria José da Silva, MMM Sowing seeds of hope and joy, and the fruits of being empowered with practical skills for the journey… It is with a great sense of joy and hope that the Medical Missionaries of Mary in Salvador rejoices with more […]

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MMM Learn as They Work

In Tanzania, MMM run the Faraja Centre in Singida. It deals with many aspects of health care but among its many programmes is one for counter human trafficking. They have been innovative in how they deal with individual cases, and most importantly, how they prevent children and young people from […]

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Update from Uganda

In Uganda, MMM have a base in Kansiira, a remote rural area, 180 kms from the capital city, Kampala. It is an area that includes ten villages, with mud houses and thatched roofs. The people are poor, with subsistence farming, cattle rearing and fishing in nearby Lake Kyoga as the […]

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Birthing the MMM Mission in Mato Grosso

For the last few years, the MMM community in Brazil has been researching a new place of Mission. In February, 2023, like the disciples ‘we were sent’ – missioned to Alto Boa Vista, Mato Grosso! Full of excitement and enthusiasm, after a two-day journey, we arrived…the ‘seed’ was planted! The next […]

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MMM Mukuru, Kenya, Wins Award

By Sr. Otibhor Uwagbale, MMM The MMM Mukuru Health Program is situated in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, a slum in Nairobi. We offer a wide range of services and almost all our clients/patients are residents from the slum where there is abject poverty and deplorable living conditions. Irrespective of our location, […]

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Torugbene

Torugbene is in the Catholic diocese of Bomadi in Delta State of Nigeria. It is a village in the creeks of the Niger Delta. Fishing is a great occupation here. The people do bits of farming wherever they can find a piece of land. During the rainy season, the roads […]

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MMM Staff Talking!

From St. Mary’s Hospital, Eleta, Nigeria The trouble with having our clinics and hospitals in remote areas is the difficulty of recruiting staff to work in areas difficult to access with little or no public transport. This was the dilemma faced by St. Mary’s Hospital in Eleta, Nigeria. Without staff […]

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Climate Change – Students Letters to Future Generations

By Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM Coming to the end of my mission in Kenya, global warming was my last topic with the group of high school students I mentored. I asked them each to write a letter to future generations. What would they like to say? It is quite fascinating […]

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Malaria – The Forgotten Disease

As the world concentrated recently on the prevention and elimination of Covid-19 other diseases can be forgotten.  Malaria is one of these.  Recent good news from WHO (October 2021) on a malaria vaccine for children can bring great improvement to the global picture.  However, disruption in services due to the […]

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