“Char­i­ty is direct­ed at the effects of injus­tice, its symp­toms. Char­i­ty address­es prob­lems that already exist. Jus­tice is direct­ed at the root caus­es of social prob­lems. Jus­tice address­es the under­ly­ing struc­tures or caus­es of these problems.”

“The main pur­pose for which God has called the Daugh­ters of Char­i­ty and brought them togeth­er is to hon­or our Lord Jesus Christ as the source and mod­el of all char­i­ty, serv­ing Him cor­po­ral­ly and spir­i­tu­al­ly in the per­son of the poor.” Con­sti­tu­tions pg. 28.

We are an inter­na­tion­al group of women in the Catholic Church, who fol­low the gospel vision of St. Vin­cent de Paul and St. Louise de Mar­il­lac, giv­ing our lives total­ly to God, in Com­mu­ni­ty for the ser­vice of per­sons liv­ing in pover­ty in an evan­gel­i­cal spir­it of humil­i­ty, sim­plic­i­ty and charity.

For admin­is­tra­tive pur­pose, our world­wide Com­mu­ni­ty is divid­ed into Provinces. Each Province has its own lead­er­ship team which is respon­si­ble for the admin­is­tra­tion and devel­op­ment of the works of the Province and for the care and well being of the mem­bers of the Com­mu­ni­ty. Each Province is made up of Local com­mu­ni­ties of between 3 — 15 Sis­ters who work in var­i­ous ser­vices in a par­tic­u­lar area.