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  • About VIDES
    • Our Mission
    • Foundations
    • Advisory Board
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    • Mission Sites >
      • Africa
      • Americas
      • Asia
      • Europe
      • Oceania
  • Our Stories
    • Volunteer Blog
  • Join
    • Become a Volunteer
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Americas

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23 nations

We have 4,188 Sisters working in 524 communities in 23 countries in the Americas.

In 1877 the Institute crossed the ocean to America with its' first missionary expedition to Montevideo in Uruguay. It was indeed an extraordinary achievement at such a short time since the foundation in 1872.


Countries

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada 
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador 
Guatemala



Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela

Types of Service

- Teaching in schools at various levels
- After school activities involving study and recreation
- Evening school for the poor
- Oratories and youth centers
- Promotional and professional centres
- Mission centers in the villages among the indigenous people
- Communities inserted in slums and on the outskirts of big cities
- Shelter homes for the street children
- Our presence in the social administrative structure for the defending of rights of youth and women
- Caring for the elderly and building clinics
- Teaching in private parish and public schools at every level
VIDES+USA Central Office
6019 Buena Vista
San Antonio, TX 78237
Sr. Sydney Moss, FMA
director@vides.us

 VIDES+USA Eastern Office
655 Belmont Ave
Haledon, NJ 07508
Sr. Theresa Lee, FMA
vides-eastusa@salesiansisters.org

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