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 LaunchBy Sr. Pauline Amulen, MMM, Lilongwe, Malawi We visit our patients twice every week. It is always an exciting moment for the homebased care team to go and deliver their services to those in most need who are unable to reach the health centre. In every visit we often plan […]
READ MORE: A Day in Outreach in Malawi (part 2)By Sr. Goretti Nalumaga, MMM Margarida (not her real name) is 29 years old, married to ‘Joseph’. Together they have four children, all boys and one adopted girl who is Margarida’s niece. She grew up thinking that Margarida was her real mother. She is, in fact, a daughter of her […]
READ MORE: Story from Kampala, UgandaBy Sisters Nilza dos Santos & Margaret Nakafu, MMM In Brazil, according to the National Youth Council created in 2005, young persons are those between 15-29 years. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics 2021 Report states that the Brazilian population is 214 million and the youth correspond to 23%, […]
READ MORE: Empowering the Youth in BrazilWe visit our patients twice every week. It is always an exciting moment for the home-based care team to go and deliver their services to those in most need who are unable to reach the health centre. In every visit we often plan to visit five or six clients in […]
READ MORE: A day in Outreach in MalawiBy MMM Sisters, Fuka, Nigeria Being Missionaries allows us to be channels of light in the path of others that they might discover their God-giving self and gain the freedom they long for. Sheko, 9 and Jami, 6 (not their real names), are both girls and siblings. They are among […]
READ MORE: The importance of Educating the GirlsDo you know the Sisters? Would you like to know more? We are starting a new way for you to get to know more about MMM and the Sisters. Soon, MMM will be launching a new initiative through the miracle of technology, a series of podcasts that will allow you […]
READ MORE: MMM Voices – Caring Hands and Healing Hearts