"Loving God in Serving the poor to be fully human and fully alive"
Daughters of Mary Immaculate and Collaborators (DMl) and Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and Collaborators (MMl) are International Religious Congregations, approved by the authority of His Holiness the Pope through the respective diocese of the Catholic Church to work internationally. Today, the DMIs 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 in 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 development of women.

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. Skill training helps them take up alternate livelihood programmes or take up new business, which ultimately leads the 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-abled children are given the extra-care and love they need in three homes namely:

Appliances required for mobility are contributed and they 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 able them to secure job placement or self-confidence.

Health and Development go hand in hand. DMI adopts the preventive approach by organizing health education programmes designed to disseminate awareness among the ignorant and educate them on preventive measures from normal diseases such as diarrhoea 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 backdrop of rampart corruption and dis-integration of ethical 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 an adult can understand, articulate, and participate in the process of transformation. Children's Parliament is run by the DMI sisters and it has created responsibility & sensitivity among children and has made active citizenship a reality.

DMI 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 DMIs 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 DMIs 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 DMIs and MMIs have a disaster management programme in place, with committed people to spread the services.