This 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, and inner-city slums like Sao Paulo, Lagos or Nairobi. In these places there are no proper roads, often no water or electricity, and generally poor infrastructure.

These are the areas where the poor and neglected are. MMM has a special gift for working with mothers and children. That was the need Mother Mary saw in Nigeria just over a hundred years ago. We pay attention especially to areas where women’s lives and health are under-valued.

But we do not stay forever! We hand over and leave when services are established, when local people have more opportunities. We live by the maxim:
“Go where you are needed but not wanted. Stay until you are wanted but not needed”