Vincentian Lay Missionaries Information

Formed in 2002, the Vincentian Lay Missionaries (VLM) aims to support the building of a future for those most in need in the poorest areas of Ethiopia. We are primarily a volunteer sending organisation, sending over thirty volunteers to various projects across Ethiopia every year. We also aim to highlight the global issue of poverty, to advocate and to support action for change. VLM follows a 400 year tradition begun by St. Vincent de Paul among the most neglected in seventeenth century France and who sent missionaries to Ireland and Scotland to work with the most vulnerable communities of that era. Click here for more information on St. Vincent de Paul and our Vincentian ethos. We work in partnership with the Daughters of Charity, Ethiopia, our hosts and mentors, in order to provide financial support and technical expertise to projects throughout the Country. OUR MISSION STATEMENT To form and facilitate our members to immerse themselves in the experience and culture of the Vincentian mission overseas, so that reflecting on the learned experience, they will, on their return, effect change and transformation both locally and globally.