• Schools
• Boarding houses
• Other apostolic woks
• Orphanages and shelters for children and youth
• Nurseries and other social works
• Other works of evangelization

Schools

• Organization and operation of the Conceptionist Schools
• In all the schools we elaborate a Pastoral-Educational Project at the beginning of each school year. In the preparation of the Project we take into account the general objective that has been proposed by the Provincial Commission on Education and we elaborate the specific objectives and activities according to the priorities and needs of each School.
• We promote the personal contact with the students through counseling as well as through the close and friendly relationship with them, based on love, respect and appreciation of each one of the students.
• During summer vacation we offer several activities according to the age of the students: youth summer camps, volunteer work camps, Holy Week and Easter youth camp, language courses, sports, etc. In addition to this, we also have a volunteer work program for teachers, former students and other adult persons in order to help children, youth and adults in a mission country or other needed realities.
• In our schools we have several apostolic activities. The Missionary Conceptionist Movement offers an integral Christian formation to children and youth, following the pedagogy and spirituality of M. Carmen Salles, in order to help them grow in their faith process and to offer them service activities. The formation of those who guide the children and youth is also a priority for us. We offer them courses so that they may first know and later on deepen the spirituality of the Movement.
• From the different Teams of Government of the Congregation we have promoted the adequate selection and Christian and pedagogical formation of the lay teachers and other personnel that collaborate in the school, that today they are the majority of the personnel that collaborates in our schools. Likewise, we try that the shared mission between religious and lay persons may be a reality. To attain this, we dedicate time and means of formation to this important task.
• Through the shared mission we try that the teachers may be co-responsible in the evangelizing mission that the Lord has entrusted to us. Some of them, in addition to teaching religion classes and other courses, they are also leaders of the Conceptionist Missionary Movement, catechists that prepare for the reception of the Sacraments of Christian initiation and some of them belong to the Conceptionist Lay Movement.
• The apostolic mission of the schools reaches also to the parents, since we consider that their implication and collaboration in the education of their children is something essential. For this reason, we encourage and help them in their human and Christian formation through personal meetings, gatherings, conferences, commissions, parents´ club, classes for parents, etc., so that they may become evangelizing agents in the family and in society.
• In all our schools there is the Alumni Association. We also offer them several formative activities: assemblies, prayer and reflection groups, celebrations and encounters during the important holidays throughout the year.
• In some schools we collaborate with the Parish in the preparation of the Sacraments of the First Communion and Confirmation, in the preparation of the Sunday Eucharist and also by letting the Parish use our school chapel and the classrooms to impart the Parish catechism. Throughout the school year, we also actively participate in the campaigns organized by the Church: Mission Sunday, Missionary Association for Children, “Manos Unidas” and the Christmas campaign.
• The schools that we have in Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea in Africa, as well as one school that we have in the Philippines serve very poor children whose families can only afford to pay a very small part of what it takes to educate their children. For this reason, these schools are maintained through donations of families and students from the schools we have in other parts of the world, as well as through the Foundation that our Congregation has, whose name is “Adelante, siempre Adelante”.

Boarding Houses

• The Boarding Houses are also an important part of our apostolic works. Through them we carry out a cultural and human formation as well as a specific pastoral formation. We help the residents to develop their relationship abilities and we also try to foster a climate of solidarity and fraternal coexistence. Likewise, we promote that the girls may have their best performance, according their individual capacities, by providing a learning and silent environment, where they may also develop their responsible freedom.
• We also offer them some cultural and formative activities, according to their level and capacities. Our Congregation has Boarding Houses for University students in Granada and Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Manila (Philippines), Seoul (South Korea), and Mbanza-Ngungu (Democratic Republic of Congo). In Sao Paulo (Brasil) we also have a Boarding House that, in addition to the University students, we also have professional young girls and ladies that work.
• In Rome we have a Boarding House for pilgrims that provides a comfortable, quiet, simple and family style environment to people that come to visit the city. The apostolic work of the Sisters is based mainly in their heartfelt welcome and the witness of their own life. They also offer the pilgrims the opportunity to participate in the Eucharist and in their prayer life and they guide them so that their visit to Rome may become a truly Christian and enriching experience.
• In Marcilla (Spain) and in Embu Guaçu (Brasil) we have a House of Spirituality where there are ample spaces for retreats and encounters, spirituality courses, study and rest. Throughout the year they receive many groups that go there for retreat, encounters, spiritual exercises, Chapters, formation courses. The Sisters carry out their pastoral work by welcoming and serving the people as well as through their own life witness.

Other Apostolic Works

Orphanages and shelters

• The purpose of these apostolic works is to accommodate the girls that do not have the adequate family environment or that have lost their parents, in order to provide them with an overall development, in the different aspects: religious, moral, physical, psychological and professional. We also provide them the social environment that may help the girls to grow and develop in the best possible way.
• We have two of these “Family Houses” in Brasil: one in Mococa that is maintained with donations from different families of that city and is run by a Board of Trustees. The Sisters of the religious community that take care of the girls are members of this Board of Trustees. The other “Family House” is located in Machado and it is also maintained with donations from several people.

Nurseries and other Social Works

• In the nurseries we take care of poor children, from 2 to 6 year old. We offer them an integral education, through pedagogical assistance, educational materials, personal health and hygiene as well as by feeding them.
• We also have other social works for the assistance of the poor. The nurseries and social works that we have in Brazil are maintained by the other schools we have in that country and are dependent for all purposes from these other schools.

Other works of evangelization

• Some communities are dedicated to the direct evangelization of people, mainly in very poor neighborhoods. The Sisters and lay persons carry out the work of evangelization by collaborating with the Parish through catechesis, programs through radio, coordination of the pastoral work for children and youth, health pastoral work, visit to poor families, religion classes in the public schools, etc.