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MWIA works closely with Loreto schools around Australia to educate students about the work of the Loreto Sisters both locally and overseas. We aim to provide opportunities for students to join a mission for justice and development and help to strengthen their understanding of MWIA’s projects.

MWIA Global Projects E-Booklet

MWIA produces a Global Projects E-Booklet annually which is updated throughout the year to assist your school or community to:

Share information and resources on all of our current projects
Learn about social justice, development and aid
Raise awareness and advocacy among students and within your community
Inspire fundraising activities to raise money for projects supported by MWIA

DOWNLOAD MWIA GLOBAL PROJECTS BOOKLET 2021

Other resources for students

Throughout the year MWIA will release educational booklets and newsletters updating the Loreto community about important events, progress and outcomes in the international development sector. Download them today!

Loreto at the United Nations

Loreto has been at the United Nations (UN) as a non-government organisation since 2002. The primary goal of Loreto at the UN is to work for systemic change to redress the major inequities in our world by promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) working for the eradication of poverty and promoting gender equity for women and girls.

Latest update of Loreto at the United Nations

The Human Right to Education

The IBVM/CJ NGO office at the United Nations works on behalf of the Mary Ward family around the world, to advocate at the highest levels of international relations “for a more humane, just and sustainable world”.

In 2019 members of the UN office team and education delegates from Ireland and Spain attended the UN Human Rights Social Forum in Geneva. As an outcome of their participation the attendees produced the document entitled ‘The Human Right to Education’ which has been shared through the UN NGO office to the global IBVM/CJ network. It is a position paper, reflecting the insights and learnings gained through their participation in the forum on issues relating to the human rights and education.

Mary Ward Week 2020 resource booklet

Once again we have arrived at this special week of our Mary Ward family year – the week spanning the dates of her birth and death, when we focus our prayer and reflection on our shared inheritance. Across this week we invite you to join members of the Institute in every corner of the globe as we promote God’s desire for a world made whole and holy, and a united people blessed with freedom, justice, integrity, felicity and verity.

This year’s Mary Ward Week resource booklet has been collated and edited by two Indian members of Mary Ward’s Institute, Prabina IBVM and Manjusha CJ in India. Once again, the contributors come from many different parts of our Mary Ward family, with the majority of contributions coming from Friends of Mary Ward.

Did you know?

MWIA staff are available to visit your school to speak about projects, social justice and development, volunteering and fundraising.

Contact Philanthropy Manager, Michelle Gale, to organise a visit to your school!

Email: michelle.gale@loreto.org.au

Phone: (03) 8832 0417