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Medical Mission Sisters (MMS) in Hajipur, Patna, are working to secure education and financial support for seven recently orphaned Dalit children. Sister Smita Parmar says that the children were in shock when she visited them shortly after their parents’ sudden deaths. Collaborating with other local groups, MMS organized a program called “Help to Each Other” to provide the children with food, clothing and other necessities.

Caption: Sister Smita Parmar is pictured second from right in the first row, along with the children and others from their village. 

 

 

 

 

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Sister Nirmala Chirackapurayidam, center, a nurse-midwife, offers assistance to a patient at the Medical Center in Rajabala, West Garo Hills, North East India.
Medical Mission Sisters Associate Yira Infante is a special healing presence to the barrio children in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
Brick kiln workers in Pakistan often have little or no access to medical care. Sister Pauline Sadiq started health services to help them.
Sister Joan Foley (center), Director, with volunteers at our Thrift Shop in Philadelphia. Proceeds from the Thrift Shop support our global mission.
In Ang’iya, Kenya, Sister Scovia Kiconco lovingly offers help to a woman who has fallen ill while harvesting in the corn fields.
Sister Jyoti Kujur provides guidance and hope to homeless Indian men and women in the United Kingdom.

Our Mission

Medical Mission Sisters are women full of passion…for wholeness, for justice, for life. Like our Foundress, Anna Dengel, M.D., “it eats us up” when individuals and communities are denied the resources and opportunities they need to live as human beings. It moves us to the core of our being when and where people are made poor, are oppressed or are overwhelmed with a sense of powerlessness.

In our broken, wounded world, Medical Mission Sisters are called to live as a healing presence. We try to bring about a world where all live in harmony and where no one is in want. We try to live as Jesus lived, with care and compassion for all.

A Community of dedicated women with over 500 Canonical members and 100 Associates, we share life and our own unique expertise with women, children and men on five continents today. We enter into their lives as partners, as peers, as friends. We work together with them to build one world, and be one world, where the gifts of all people, all cultures, all creation are affirmed and celebrated.

 Gathering of Newer Members

 

In August 2018, Newly-vowed Medical Mission Sisters from around the world and local Associates gathered in Germany for a celebration of unity and purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healing Presence

There was a time when Associate Dr. Erika Voss wrote secret letters to the Medical Mission Sisters. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her parents worried about her moving too far away from home. After attending Marquette University and securing a summer job in the local County Hospital, she realized how strongly she wanted to be involved in the medical field. Eventually Dr. Voss’s parents accepted the idea of her leaving home and she entered MMS on her 21st birthday in 1949. She completed medical studies in 1956 at Georgetown University and afterwards served as a physician and surgeon in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Uganda. In the U.S., Erika joined two other MMS in Rossville, Tennessee, helping the Poor People’s Health Council establish their clinic. In 1974 Erika left the official MMS community and, returning to Wisconsin, she spent six years in a rural community that had been without a doctor for twelve years.  She later worked in an inner-city clinic which served the poor and volunteered at a medical clinic for those without homes. Now retired, Erika Voss has been an MMS Associate since 1984. Her activities center around helping with projects at a homeless clinic, being a medical consultant at a local food pantry, doing water quality testing in the river and gardening. She shares, “The two greatest gifts I have received in life are my two families: The one I was born into and Medical Mission Sisters.”

 

 

 

 

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Medical Mission Sisters Websites
Medical Mission Sisters have created a number of
websites to share information about our Community,
its mission and its vision with a wide variety of people.
www.medicalmissionsisters.org presents our worldwide mission
of healing
www.medicalmissionsisters.org.uk is the new Society
website created by our Generalate in London
www.missionsaerztliche-schwestern.org is our German website
www.medischemissiezusters.nl is our Dutch website
www.medicalmissionsisters-uk.org  presents our life
and work  in the United Kingdom
www.misionerasmedicas.org is our Spanish Latin American website
www.mmsne.org focuses on our mission in North East India
www.medicalmissionsistersnorthindia.org is our North India website
www.mmssouthindia.org highlights our mission in South India
www.ayushyamms.org shares the work of our Center for
Healing and Integration in India
www.mmsheal.wordpress.com features our ecological ministry at
HEAL in the Philippines
www.mms-un.org tells of our involvements at the
United Nations

 

Medical Mission Sisters are an organization of Roman Catholic Sisters and designated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charitable organization by the IRS