March 2025

The Sisters in Mexico and the Philippines once again braved dirt roads, poor weather and all round difficult travelling conditions in order to visit with some of the poorest communities in their countries. These visits have a purpose, to find the most impoverished children who would be able to benefit from a secondary education. As you can imagine there are many more children than there are places at the Sisters of Mary schools and so the sisters must make the heart-breaking choice of who they can offer a place to. If they could the sisters would enrol every child they meet in these communities such is the level of poverty.

It is thanks to the help of our supporters that we are able to offer any places to these children and we hope to be able to expand the programmes so that even more children can be given a lifechanging education at the sisters of Mary schools.

Around the world we continue to see excellent progress at the schools with their home grown food programmes.

In Honduras, the Philippines, Mexico and Guatemala, March saw the chance for the children to reap the rewards of their hard work in the gardens with a bountiful harvest of fruit and vegetables. By growing their own food the children learn valuable skills and lessons about how to grow food and where their food comes from. There is also an added bonus in that it helps keep costs down at the schools when it come to dinnertime!

These efforts are part of the wider push at the schools to be more sustainable so that the monies saved can go toward helping more impoverished children in dire need of an education.