Our Ministries & Apostolates

Since Mother Claudine began teaching parish girls in 1838, education has been our beating heart. We run universities, autonomous colleges, higher secondary schools, and remote tribal literacy centers.

• Over 180 educational institutions globally ranging from kindergarten to autonomous colleges (e.g., Holy Cross College Trichy).
• Value-based holistic education fostering critical thinking, ethical integrity, and social responsibility.
• Scholarships and residential boarding homes for underprivileged rural girl children.
• Special schools for the hearing impaired, visually challenged, and neurodivergent youth.

We work in solidarity with marginalized communities—dalits, indigenous tribal women, street children, and victims of domestic violence—helping them assert their constitutional rights.

• Organizing 4,500+ Women's Self-Help Groups (SHGs) for financial literacy and micro-enterprise.
• Shelter homes for battered women, unwed mothers, and abandoned street children with vocational integration.
• Legal aid clinics and advocacy against human trafficking and child labor.
• Disaster relief operations during floods, cyclones, and health crises.

Revealing the merciful love of the Father through compassionate medical care in rural dispensaries, leprosy rehabilitation centers, and palliative convalescent homes.

• Rural hospitals and primary health centers in isolated tribal belts.
• Mobile medical vans reaching remote settlements with maternal and child nutrition.
• Convalescent homes (EHPAD) and palliative care for senior citizens and the chronically ill.
• HIV/AIDS awareness, stigma eradication, and community home-based care.

Animators of faith in parishes and dioceses worldwide, accompanying youth ("Jeunes Professionnels"), guiding lay associates, and leading spiritual retreats.

• Parish catechesis, sacramental preparation, and family counseling.
• Spiritual direction and retreats at La Maison du Grand Pré in Chavanod.
• Youth ministry and vocational discernment camps for young professionals.
• Prison ministry bringing hope, rehabilitation support, and spiritual solace to inmates.

Recognizing that creation is God's first book of revelation, our Sisters actively promote ecological justice, organic farming, herbal gardens, and clean water conservation.

• Cultivation of medicinal herbal gardens and promoting traditional healing remedies.
• Solar energy transition across convent schools and rural dispensary networks.
• Tree plantation drives and watershed management in drought-prone villages.
• Conscientizing students and villagers on climate justice and waste reduction.