Partners & Allies
The Wider Maryknoll Family
Making the world whole is the great task of our time, and no one community can do it alone. It calls for partnering, collaborating, and networking to meet urgent and emerging needs, especially at the margins.
Maryknoll Expressions
We are one of several independent Maryknoll organizations. Each of us raises our own funds. When you give to the Sisters, your gift stays with the Sisters.
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
A society of priests and brothers, founded in 1911, who share our campus in Ossining, New York
maryknollsociety.org →
Maryknoll Lay Missioners
Lay people and families who serve overseas as an independent organization
mklm.org →
Maryknoll Affiliates
Local communities of lay people who live the Maryknoll mission where they are
maryknollaffiliates.org →
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
A shared advocacy ministry of the Maryknoll family, with offices in Washington and at the United Nations
maryknollogc.org →
Maryknoll Mission Archives
The keeper of the historical record for the whole Maryknoll family
maryknollmissionarchives.org →
Maryknoll Magazine
Maryknoll’s magazine for more than 100 years, with a Spanish edition, Revista Misioneros
maryknollmagazine.org →
Organizations founded by Maryknoll Sisters
Afya Women’s Holistic Healing Center
The late Sister Efu Nyaki co-founded the Afya Women’s Holistic Healing Center in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, in 1998. The Center focuses on women suffering from abuse or illnesses and gives them the help, support and opportunities that they need to be able to survive. Afya is a Swahili word meaning “health,” and that is the mission of the Center: to minister to the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social health of women in Brazil who have few other sources of support to turn to.
BACHA English Medium School
BACHA English Medium School, an inclusive education initiative Sister Miriam Perlewitz and the late Sister Joan Westhues cofounded in 2001 to prioritize human values, critical thinking and life skills over memorization. The acronym stands for the “Bangladesh Alternative Course for Human Advancement,” and bacha in the Bangla language means “to rise up” or “to live again.” BACHA brings together Christian, Muslim and Hindu children in the same classrooms, a quiet but powerful witness to interfaith harmony in a divided world.
Ecumenical Commission for Human Rights (CEDHU)
The Ecumenical Commission for Human Rights (CEDHU) is a civil society organization dedicated to promoting social justice based on respect for and enjoyment of human rights and the empowerment of unprotected sectors in Ecuador. Founded in 1978, this group provides legal assistance, workshops on human rights and women’s rights, community organizing, and, with the help of volunteers, learning activities for children. Sister Elsie Monge is a founding member and executive director.
“Our Home” Clinic
Begun in the 1990s by Sister Susan Gubbins and the late Sister Dorothy McGowan, the “Our Home” Clinic offers health and rehabilitation services in the remote regions of East Timor. Along with a maternity shelter, mobile clinics and outreach programs, the clinic staffs a community-based rehabilitation team that “aims to enhance the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families and ensure their inclusion and participation in the community.”
Human Rights and the Environment (DHUMA)
Co-founded by Sister Pat Ryan in 2007, the “Human Rights and the Environment” (DHUMA) civil association focuses its work on the promotion and defense of human rights, primarily those of the Aymara, Quechua, and Uros Indigenous peoples of the Puno region, Peru, as well as on respect for and protection of the rights of Mother Earth (“Pachamama”/Our Common Home), especially water. We strive to create and promote new, peaceful ways of resolving conflicts and achieving social justice and respect for the dignity of Indigenous peoples and their rights. DHUMA implements education and legal advocacy as nonviolent tools, contributing to the prevention of deaths, injuries, arbitrary detentions, accusations, and trials against Indigenous defenders in their struggle to defend their rights and those of Mother Earth.
Santa Maria Hospice
Founded in 2005 by Sister Dee Smith, the Santa Maria Hospice in San Marcos, Guatemala, offers a dedicated place for compassionate palliative care for people living with HIV who suffer from chronic and serious illnesses. The goal is to provide care that addresses people’s physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological health. The Santa Maria eco-garden is a hospice project that grows produce as a source of nutritious food for the clinic on a five-acre organic farm and garden. The hospice also generates income by selling eggs and honey from the chickens and beehives they tend.
Emusoi Centre
Emusoi Centre was founded in 1999 in Arusha, Tanzania, by the late Sister Mary Vertucci to provide secondary education to young Maasai women. Through the center, girls and women of pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities found a safe and supportive home of hope, where they were able to access information and discover their own worth through education. By 2025, more than 2,000 women passed through secondary school, vocational school and college or a university.
New Life Foundation
Founded in 1991 by Sister Geraldine Brake, the New Life Foundation is a non-profit organization and retirement facility in Panama, dedicated to the care and assistance of older adults from all social backgrounds.
Red de Vida
“Red de Vida” (Web of Life) is an ecological center located in the rapidly disappearing tropical rainforest of Darien, Panama, founded in 1994 by Sister Melinda Roper. Our vision is that our regenerative, life-giving relationship between the human community and the whole community of life is emerging, and we are part of this emergence. Red de Vida is an eco-center that promotes eco-spiritual education through four basic programs:
- Integral Art and Leadership Programs for children and youth through painting, storytelling, etc.;
- Alternative Health Programs that promote health as integrative practices, including healthy diet, exercise, Ayurvedic medicine, etc.;
- Organic farming care for the land and forest resources through agricultural practices that produce food that is not contaminated through industrialized farming and farming practices that destroy the environment.
- Development and use of an eco-spiritual path through part of our forest reserve where families, groups, organizations can meditate, appreciate and learn why it is important to protect the flora and fauna of the tropical rainforests, the rivers and water resources so necessary for our lives.
Alumni Networks
Maryknoll Convent School (Hong Kong)
mcs.edu.hk →
Miriam College (the Philippines)
mc.edu.ph →
Colegio Monte Maria (Guatemala)
colegiomontemaria.edu.gt →
Partner with us
If your organization shares our commitment to people at the margins and our common home, we would love to hear from you.