"Loving God in Serving the poor; to be fully human and fully alive"

Daughters of Mary Immaculotend Collaborators (DMl) and Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and Collaborators (MMl) are Inte.ational Religious Congregations, approved by the authority of His Holiness the Pope through the respective diocese of the Catholic Church to work internationally. Today, the DMAls and MMls are working as missionaries in India in Asia, Brazil in South America, Germany and Rome in Europe, and Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Africa, and soon to be extended to Bhutan in Asia. Born out of the love for God and His people, and in answer to the cries of the poor, the DMs and MMls respond to every genuine need of humanity, as demanded by the signs of times, through children's-welfare programs and women development.

Lack of functional and life skills prevent women from coping with job opportunities in the present era of Industrialization and Globalization. DMI strongly feels that women should also be included in the present economy and for that reason, skill development training are organized for the Self Help Group for women and young adolescent girls. The vocational skills and life skills training help them to cope with the changing needs and demands of life. The skill training help them to take up alternate livelihood programmes or take up new business, which ultimately lead way to economic empowerment of women

Children are the future" But for some children, a question hangs over their own future. DM embraces these children with motherly love and grooms them with tender affection. DM runs over ten homes for the poor. abandoned and deserving children. The children are given a home and all that is needed for a child to grow into a unique person of integrity and brilliance. Every child is respected, loved and given individual attention.

The differently - ablod children are given the extra care and love the need in three specific homes namely:
1. Karunallllam - Chennai
2. Marco Home - Ottanthangal, Kancheepuram Dist.
3. Rehabilitation Centre - Elupatti, Thanjavur Dist.,

Appliances required for mobility, and are motivated and helped to gain self-confidence to face life with courage. Education. Vocational Training and Psycho social care are offered to them to be able to secure job placement or self-employment.

Health and Development go hand in hand. DM adopts the preventive approach by organizing health education programmes designed to disseminate awareness among the ignorant and educate them on preventive measures in case of normal diseases such as diahorrea to the most dreadful disease HIV/AIDS. Curative assistance is also made available through mobile clinics, health camps in rural areas and a well established St. Joseph's Hospital in Pour, Chennai.

In the back drop of rampart corruption and dis-integration'"') etnical values, there is an urgent need for implanting essential values in the minds of children at a very tender age. Children's Parliament is a programme aimed at ensuring democratic participation of children in the rightful claim for education, health, conducive environment, civic rights and child rights.

Children's Parliament challenges the myth that only the adult can understand, articulate and participate in the process of transformation. Children's Parliament are run by the DM sisters, it has created responsibility & sensitivity among children and has made active citizenship a reality.

DM sisters along with their counterparts,the MMls had responded most effectively to the misery caused by the devastating Tsunami to the people along the seacoast of Nagapattinam and Kanyakumari. During any such eventuality, the DMs and MMls rush with emergency aids to the places of disaster and participate with the Government and Non-government agencies in the work of rehabilitation. The DMs and MMIs continue to stay and counsel the traumatized people even after an uneasy normalcy settles in such places. They assist the people to rebuild their future with livelihood and restructuring programmes. God forbid, If any such event were to strike again, the OMIs and MM have a disaster management programme in place, with committed people to spearead the services.