We care for all those children who are stricken by poverty, war, living in a miserable condition, either physically or psychologically, due to the lack of material or loving attentions;
 
We carry out a particular social action, the organisation of which depending on the specific demands of where our mission is, tending at supporting families who are too frequently violated, divided or exhausted; we accompany, with especially deep empathic attitude, all those youths who are trying to give meaning and direction to their future, and also all those people who cannot find their own place within the church.

 
We take care of the youths attending our many schools and institutes in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, working together with the entire educating community. While keeping an open attitude to all realities and drawing all inspiring values from the Gospel, our schools become places of research where, through teaching and experience, we crave training people who are capable of thinking, discerning and acting in communion with each other.
 

We become “neighbours” to all those who are suffering in body and spirit through our sanitary action. Attentive to the complex and numerous needs of the sick, we want our entire preventive and curative action to be a “taking care of life”, and for this reason we profit of the best technological, professional and human qualities.

We let ourselves be questioned by exclusion and abandon –nowadays- especially experienced by aged people, and we keep save our attention towards them;

 

 



We accompany the suffering from HIV who are living in solitude and misery, especially during the very last period of their lives;
 

 
We feel called out by the person of the woman wherever she is not being acknowledged in her dignity as human being; we have arranged –in some of these countries- with and for women, various projects of formation and laboratories, aiming at improving women’s conditions so that they may acquire a proper consideration within their family and in society;
 

We are active in all those places where migration from rural areas, together with a meagre ecclesial presence, makes it possible for us to accompany people with our preaching and also to offer them special catechistic formation;

We feel challenged and urged to cross the frontiers in order of giving way to an active dialogue with: the other religions, the new border-line areas, all the different cultures and mentalities; moreover, we feel invited to share, but above all to ameliorate, all inhumanly life conditions that bear hard on neglected populations living in suburbs.