World Villages for Children provides support for Sisters of Mary who establish Villages for Children called Boystown and Girlstowns where they are needed the most. Each year, the Sisters seek out the most vulnerable, underprivileged children especially those orphaned or abandoned and street children to admit them to the program.

The students take a test to make sure they can succeed in our program.

Once accepted the students travel with the Sisters of Mary to our villages. Separated into Boystowns and Girlstowns, World Villages for Children operate in South Korea (since 1964), the Philippines (1985), Mexico (1990), Guatemala (1997), Brazil (2002), Honduras (2012), and Tanzania (2019). The children sleep in dormitories in 3-level bunk beds, eat, pray, and play together, and make their own clothes. The Sisters provide food, shelter, clothing, an education, vocational training, and unconditional motherly-love seven days a week, 365 days per year. In addition to an education, children can learn a musical instrument, create art, and play sports.

The children in our care receive an intensive academic education and vocational training tailored to local industries and businesses so they can either enter the workforce or attend college upon graduation. The Sisters help their graduating students with job placement through established and ongoing relationships with local companies. Business leaders are eager to hire and actively recruit our students due to their high level of education, moral character, and work ethic.

In each community our 383 Sisters care for the local population by establishing free medical and dental centers, daycare facilities, homes for mothers and children, and vocational training centers for the poorest of the poor. Our programs provide children growing up in abject poverty the knowledge and skills to become self-sufficient, productive members of their communities. Many go on to pay for the education of their younger siblings and invest in their hometowns. Thus, when we educate one child, we help whole families, and our impact reaches far beyond each of our 20,000 students currently enrolled. Our work lifts entire communities out of their lives of suffering and despair. We give these children, and their families hope for a long lasting and brighter future though education.

A typical story of one of our students is that of the life of Nchota in Tanzania. She is a twin and the eldest of seven siblings.

Her mother died of malaria in 2018 and soon after that her father left. She and her siblings survived at the mercy of her aunt and neighbors. It was difficult for her and her siblings to find food and they often went to bed hungry.

When she learned about the Sisters of Mary, she took the entrance test, and she was accepted into the program in April, 2019.

In January 2020, she learned that her father died and the house her siblings were living in was destroyed. Now she and her siblings are truly orphans. She is studying hard so that she can get a good job and help her siblings in the near future.

In each community, our 383 Sisters care for the local population by establishing free medical and dental centers, daycare facilities, homes for mothers and children, and vocational training centers for the poorest of the poor. Our work lifts entire communities out of the poverty cycle. Please join us today in our fight against poverty and help us change the world one student at a time.