We invite you to support the World Villages for Children Mission Trip Scholarship Fund, which enables student volunteers to serve the children at Girlstown in Chalco, Mexico.

This June (June 7–12), eight of our graduating seniors will spend six days volunteering at Girlstown, a Catholic residential school operated by the Sisters of Mary World Villages for Children. The Sisters provide free, live-in education, formation, and care for girls from deeply impoverished backgrounds. It is a remarkable place where lives and futures are transformed.

Through this fund, your contribution helps cover mission-related expenses for our student volunteers, including lodging, meals, and airfare. Because the Soccer World Cup will be taking place in Mexico City during this time, flight costs are significantly higher than usual, making this support especially meaningful.

Additionally, a portion of the fund will be donated directly to Girlstown. Each $1,500 provides a full year of care and education for one Girlstown student—covering her room, board, schooling, and daily needs.

Our goal is to raise $40,000, allowing us to fully support this service experience while making a generous gift to the Sisters and the girls they serve.

Your donation to the World Villages Mission Trip Scholarship Fund is fully tax-deductible and will help sustain both our volunteers’ mission work and the ongoing care of the Girlstown students.

Thank you for your support and for helping make this service opportunity possible.

The Sisters of Mary were founded on August 15, 1964, by Monsignor Aloysius Schwartz, a missionary priest devoted to helping poor children. He established the congregation to serve the poorest of the poor with love, compassion, and a life of joyful service.

Each year, the Sisters go out into remote villages, city slums, and dangerous streets to find the children who have no one else: orphans, abandoned youth, and those struggling to survive on their own.

These children are welcomed into a loving home, given dignity, education, and the chance to hope again.

To ensure they can thrive academically, the children take an entrance test.

Once accepted the students travel to the Sisters of Mary Boystowns or Girlstowns. The Sisters of Mary 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, year round. In addition to an education, children can learn a musical instrument, create art, and play sports.

Each child receives intensive education paired with hands-on vocational training, tailored to local industries. Upon graduation, the Sisters help secure meaningful employment or higher education through established partnerships with companies who actively seek our graduates for their strong moral character and work ethic.

But the impact reaches far beyond each student.

Almost 400 Sisters serve the children and surrounding communities by running free medical and dental clinics, daycare centers, homes for mothers and children, and vocational schools. Many graduates return to lift their families out of poverty, paying for their siblings’ education and investing in their hometowns.

When we educate one child, we transform an entire family—and often an entire community. These children and their families are given 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 - but many nights they 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. For the first time, she had a bed, regular meals, safety, and hope.

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. Today, Nchota is studying diligently—not just for her future, but for theirs. Her dream is to graduate, get a good job, and bring her siblings to safety.

This is what your support makes possible.

With your help, we can welcome more children like Nchota—children who simply need a chance.

Join us in breaking the cycle of poverty—one student at a time.