When we are able to fund a place at our schools for just one child living in desperate poverty it creates a profound and lasting change not just in their lives but for generations of their family and community members.
Our children graduate from school with the skills they need to secure stable , fairly paid work.
They build new independent lives for themselves and are strongly driven to help their families. They typically help with healthcare, housing and medical support, pay for education for their siblings and sometimes generations of their extended families, lifting them out of poverty – permanently. We call this the multiplier effect of your support.
The stories of our graduates demonstrate the impact of our work. Nearly 170,000 graduates have now finished school with us. They are keen and motivated to pay back the opportunities they received. They want to ensure they share their good fortune to help the future generations at the school onto better lives.
Our graduates help the Sisters with programme delivery, teaching, extra-curricular support, on the job training opportunities, jobs and with their outreach work in the community to reach new children in need. They connect new graduates with employers. Many graduates become large employers in their own right.
Their support is inspirational for the children at school, a lifeline for the Sisters and for graduating children.
Alumni associations are actively developed and maintained by graduates in most of the countries, particularly the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil to provide more structured support for graduates and for the Sisters. In the Philippines the alumni organisation is ASMSI, in Mexico, Gravini and in Guatemala, Asevigua. These organisations are a great source of comfort to their members and are active with us in fundraising for the future of this vital education work.