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Our History and Values:
Faith and Service
The Franciscans Friars cultivate their faith, grow through service, and stay constant and true to their founding principles.
Our Catholic Teachings
- We strive to cultivate the ideals of humility and charity. We believe in the transforming power of St Anthony’s message of hope and Christ’s love
- We advocate for those less fortunate. We believe our mission is to bring peace through advocacy.
- We work with our brothers and sisters around the world to build a more peaceful and just society. We believe in the absolute and fundamental dignity of each individual and creation.
- We provide opportunities for members to fulfill their philanthropic dreams. We believe that when our benefactors’ passion for giving aligns with our passion for service, together we make a real difference in the world.
Our History
The Anthonian Association of the Friends of St. Anthony of Padua Inc. was incorporated as a nonprofit religious organization in the United States on January 26th, 1990.
This happened thanks to the efforts of our founding Franciscan fathers, Friar Giacomo Panteghini, General Director of the Messenger of St Anthony in Padua, Italy, and Friar J.A. Wayne Hellmann, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at Saint Louis University.
Since those early days, many more Friars (from Padua, Italy, and the United States) have joined in and dedicated time, efforts, and expertise to ensure that Saint Anthony’s message of hope and love would reach as many souls as possible.
Today, our work continues as we Franciscans Friars cultivate our faith, grow through service, and stay constant and true to our founding principles.
Faith and Service
Founded and operated exclusively to promote Saint Anthony’s message of God’s love to those hardest to reach, the Association distributes the monthly Catholic magazine the Messenger of Saint Anthony. Also, several times per year, our Franciscan Friars from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, Italy, bring the precious Relics of Saint Anthony to the United States. This gives those who cannot afford to visit his Basilica in Padua, Italy, an opportunity to get closer to the Saint.
Incorporated as a 501(c)3 charitable organization, the Anthonian Association was located for much of its history at Mount St Francis, Indiana, until August of 2019. It then relocated its main office to Chicago, Illinois, seeking a more central location for the distribution of our magazine, the Messenger of Saint Anthony.
St. Anthony's Charities - U.S.A.
Since its inception in 1990, the friars from the Basilica and the Messenger of Saint Anthony distributed grants annually to non-profit organizations founded and operated exclusively for religious, humanitarian, educational or scientific purposes.
Historically, grants range between $1,000 and $50,000 – the average for individual grants has been $13,500. Since 2015, our efforts in 28 countries (across the continents of North American, Central and South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Oceania/ Australia) have been truly far-reaching.
Over the last seven years, we have distributed $2,366,133.93 U.S. dollars toward humanitarian projects. These projects are operated by religious brothers, sisters, and other nonprofit organizations that provide essential services (food, water, shelter, medical care, and job training) to thousands of low-income families around the globe.
Click below to read more about past projects around the world. THANK YOU for your support. You are a blessing to us and to those we serve.
St. Anthony's Charity Projects
Provide potable water to students and nearby farm laborers and their families
KENYA – St. Theresa High School for Girls
Lessen the impact of severe drought by providing potable water to the school, the hospital, and neighboring communities
TANZANIA – St. Anthony of Padua Parish
Create a loving home for infants, children and adults with severe developmental disabilities
USA – St. Joseph Home Cincinnati, OH
Respond to the needs of many who don’t have enough to eat due to poverty and illness, and the elderly who are often abandoned and homebound
PHILLIPINES – Angel’s Home for Children
Work to foster lay formation and faith-based community volunteering
USA – Jerusalem Farm, Kansas City, MO
Give preschool children from disadvantaged area a chance for success in life
INDIA – St Mary’s Primary School
Save lives by offering low cost or feww primary medical care to people who are ill or in recovery
VENEZUELA – María Auxiliadora Health Center
Help student-friars deepen their theological understanding as to be able to live and work as Franciscan friars in service to the Church
USA – Post-Novitiate Franciscan Formation, MD
Reduce child mortality by providing daily nutritious meals and clean drinking water
HAITI – St Raphael Nutrition Centre
Support the initial Formation of personal & spiritual development of student-Friars
USA – Franciscan Postulancy Program, IL
Empower immigrant Haitian women language and professional training to better integrate into Chilean society
CHILE – Woman, Learn, & Work Center
Help curb hunger by offering foodstuffs to the elderly and those in need due to illness, unemployment and severe poverty
ITALY – Association Volunteers for Hope
Share St Anthony’s Gospel of Hope with our bothers & sisters
INDIA – St Maximilian Kolbe Province
Ensure that indigent Native Americans in need don’t go hungry by providing food, temporary lodging and religious guidance
USA – Sacred Heart Retreat Center, NM
Save the lives of young children who suffer from severe malnutrition and from typhus and malaria
CAMEROON – St Joseph Nursery & Primary School
Support Franciscan Friars working around the world to empower others
USA – St Bonaventure Solidarity Fund, IL
TURKEY & SYRIA – Emergency Relief Aid
Franciscan Friars of St Bonaventure, Chicago
USA: Supporting Franciscan Friars working around the world to empower others
Franciscan Missionary Sisters, Gallup, NM
USA: Ensuring indigent Native Americans in need don’t go hungry by providing food, temporary lodging and religious guidance
Sister of Charity, Cincinnati OH
USA: Creating a loving home for infants, children and adults with severe developmental disabilities
FrancisCorps, Syracuse NY
USA: Working with our Franciscan Brothers to foster lay formation and faith-based community volunteering
Franciscan Friars Custody of Holy Cross
Ukraine: Providing emergency relief (food, housing and medical treatment) to families who are suffering because of the war in Ukraine
Foundation IHTIS – Manastirea Prislop [Catholic NGO]
Romania: Lessen refugees’ humanitarian crisis among those who are fleeing neighboring war torn countries
Sisters of the Company of Mary
Paraguay: Giving preschool children from disadvantaged areas a chance for success in life
Pedro Arrupe Home – Jesuit Refugee Services
Croatia/Bosnia/Serbia: Responding to the needs of young refugees by providing housing and much need job training and other social services
Franciscans Friars of St Maximilian Kolbe
India: Sharing St Anthony’s teachings with our bothers & sisters
Franciscan Friars – Van Mon Mission
Vietnam: Providing purified potable water (using solar power) to patients housed at the adjacent leprosy village and nearby farm laborers and their families
Congregation of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
India: Saving lives by offering primary medical care to people who are ill or in recovery
Franciscans Friars – Bread of Saint Anthony Ministry
Vietnam: Helping curb hunger by offering baked bread and other foodstuffs to Hansen disease patients, children in care, and the elderly
PROFOL [Catholic NGO]
Congo: Reducing child mortality by providing clean drinking water
Franciscan Sisters of Charity
Tanzania: Rescuing young at-risk girls by providing clean water, mentoring and professional training
Franciscans Friars St. Francis Of Assisi
Kenya: Helping our Franciscan Brothers spread the Gospel of Hope
Society of African Missions
Liberia: Providing quality education for preschool age children from underserved communities
Holy Cross Center, New Mexico: Help those needing temporary lodging during medical treatment and immigrants in transition
USA: Help individuals in severe financial hardship
Catholic Charities, Southern New Mexico: Support the successful transition and integration of young immigrant families
USA: Support the integration of young immigrant families
St Maximilian Kolbe: Sharing St Anthony’s teachings with our bothers & sisters
INDIA: Sharing St Anthony’s teachings
Franziskaner Mission: Give needy preschool children a chance for success in life
INDIA: Give children a chance for success
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Veneto: Lessen Veneto’s humanitarian crisis among the poorest of the poor
NORTHERN ITALY: Lessen humanitarian crisis among the new poor
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Pescara, Abbruzzo: Helping curb hunger during lockdown
CENTRAL ITALY: Help curb hunger
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Calabria: Provide emergency family assistance to poor families devastated by the pandemic
SOUTHERN ITALY: Provide emergency assistance to poor families
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Liguria: Help care for those most vulnerable, the elderly, the abandoned, and Italy’s ‘new poor’
NORTHERN ITALY: Help care for those most vulnerable
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Puglia: Ensure people don’t go hungry by providing a weekly food basket
SOUTHERN ITALY: Ensure people don’t go hungry
Kikambala Catholic Mission: Help our Kenyan Franciscan Brothers spread the Hope of the Gospel
KENYA: Help spread the Hope of the Gospel
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Assisi, Abbruzzo: Deliver food and rent relief to prevent homelessness
CENTRAL ITALY: Help prevent homelessness
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Sicilia: Provide emergency relief food to poor families who are suffering
SOUTHERN ITALY: Provide emergency relief food to the suffering
St Anthony’s June 13 Project: Saving lives and protecting their future
BURKINA FASO: Saving the young lives of forgotten and abused girls of Koudougou
Covid-19 Relief Fund – Campania: Distribute food, soap, masks, disinfectants to help the homeless avoid contagion
SOUTHERN ITALY: Help the homeless avoid contagion
St. Thomas of Canterbury Church:Provide food to the homeless and low-income populations.
USA: Toward Eliminating Hunger in Chicago, IL
Holy Cross Retreat Center: Assist people needing long term medical treatment in Las Cruces.
USA: Help Cancer Patients find Support in Las Cruces, NM
Franciscan Kitchen: Serve hot meals to the indigent / homeless population.
USA: Actively Reducing Malnutrition for the Homeless in Louisville, KY
St Benedict the Moor Catholic Church: Expand parish hall kitchen to serve meals to the homeless.
USA: Food Sustainability for Older Adults in Poor Rural Area in Georgia
St Anne Community Outreach: Provide rental assistance to 125 families & help them avoid eviction.
USA: Covid-19 Housing Relief Fund for 125 Families Facing Eviction in Columbus, GA
Little Portion Farm: Set up cold storage units for harvesting, storing, and transporting fresh produce.
USA: Diminish Food Insecurity by Cultivating more Produce to Feed the Hungry in Baltimore, MD
Centro Educativo del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus: Renovate the primary school for indigent poor children.
GUATEMALA: Help Vunerable Children go to School in a safe area
Caritas-Spes Kamianets Podilskyi: Renovate a foster home that houses up to 10 orphaned children.
UKRAINE: Empower 10 more Orphans into foster family
Carol Lwanga Dispensary: Renovate / expand the medical dispensary Carol Lwanga.
TANZANIA: Supporting Women through Crisis Pregnancy
Communauté de Senebou: Purchase farming materials to cultivate a rice paddy.
GUINEA: Enable 500 Guinean youth to feed their families
Batang Calabnugan Orphanage: Expanded kitchen, add bathrooms, and 6 to 8 new beds for orphaned girls.
PHILIPPINES: Sponsor food, education, shelter for 8 additional Orphaned Girls
Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital: Implement education/advocacy program aimed at reducing infant mortality.
KENYA: Reducing Child Mortality by Reinforcing Primary Care Services
St Maximilian Kolbe Province: Underwrite the costs of shipping the Messenger in India.
INDIA: Sharing our Catholic teachings with our brothers and sisters
Chepseon Catholic Church: Buy a vehicle needed to reach out beyond the Parish and travel out to distant rural communties.
KENYA: Provide Quality Catholic Education to Economically Disadvantaged families
Chepseon Catholic Mission: Drill a borehole to get clean water to local population.
KENYA: Making Drinking Water Safe for Humans and Animals of Kericho.
Comunità S. Francesco: Buy a van to bring patients who are receiving treatment to and from the center.
ITALY: Fostering Self-reliance & Resilience for Recovering Addicts and their Families
St Anthony Shrine, Colombo: Establish Housing, Medical Care, and a Community Center for those affected by the bombing.
SRI LANKA: Help Survivors of the 2019 Sri Lankan Church Bombing rebuild their lives with new housing and education
St. Anthony's Charities in the World
Individuals
served per month
Brazil
To buy furniture for the new training center for at-risk youth, the center is operated by the Sisters of Christ the Good Shepherd. 2017 – Funded $10,000
8,825
115
To dig 25 communal artesian wells in rural areas afflicted by severe drought. 2017 – Funded $30,000
8,710
Bolivia
Promote social reintegration of 10 female inmates, with job training (sewing courses) that will teach them job skills, which will likely improve their living conditions when they return to their communities. 2024 – Funded $6,000
10
10
Chile
To buy materials (i.e., food, printer, sewing machine, chairs, wires and electric system) to replace/repair items destroyed during a recent flood. The center run with the help of Little Sisters, allows women to work on their craft that they sell to earn a living and support their families. 2017 – Funded $20,000
585
250
To expand the social services at the center that would offer language, legal and work training classes to an increasing number of poor refugee Haitian women. 2023 – Funded $23,750
335
Colombia
To offer workshops and social assistance to the poor people of La Quiebra, and continue to operate the San Francisco de la Paz Project. 2016 – Funded $20,000
1,800
1,800
Equador
To rebuild simple homes devastated by earthquakes for villagers living deep in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador, they are poor, forgotten, and abandoned by the world. 2018 – Funded $39,940
270
125
Buy building materials for a new community center (built on high ground, safe from flood waters) that includes office, library & tool shed. 2024 – Funded $16,000
145
Guatemala
To renovate the primary school so that elemetary school children can be safe as well as get a good education. 2020 – Funded $15,000
150
150
Paraguay
817
To renovate the floor of the schoolyard at Antonio Provolo school, a school for disabled and hearing-impaired students. 2022 – Funded $17,390
667
Build a new center, which can become the reference point for so many poor families. 2024 – Funded $40,000
150
Peru
To add a medical clinic at Casa Mamma Mia complex where people with disabilities and little social support can receive medical treatment. 2018 – Funded $28,000
1,000
1,000
Venezuela
To purchase a portable color “Laptop Color Doppler Ultrasound Machine” for the purpose of providing gastrointestinal, cardiac, and gynecological ultrasounds. 2023 – Funded $18,000
1,050
1,050
Individuals
served per month
Haiti
To buy food and medical supplies in order to help 50 children recover from severe malnutrition for a period of one full year. 2023 – Funded $22,750
50
50
Mexico
To improve the food security of 355 children/youth of a primary school and a secondary school, located in the immediate vicinity of the landfill of Zaachila. 2019 – Funded $ 33,000
424
355
To run a day program for children with special needs in Anapra, Mexico. 2015 – Funded $ 10,000
35
Complete the construction of a welcome center where the nuns offer assistance to the elderly, disabled, fragile and isolated people. 2024 – Funded $25,000
34
USA
17,148
Subsidize the cost of adding a wheel chair ramp to facilitate entry/exit to Parish Center area that houses the Food Pantry and is also used by various parish groups as a meeting place. 2024 – Funded $25,000
1600
Subsidize the cost of having postulants participate in a yearlong formation program sponsored by Inter-Community Pre-Novitiate, as to further enrich their initial Franciscan formation. 2024 – Funded $10,000
11
Subsidize the Solidarity Fund that supports the work of our missionary Friars working in remote area of the world. 2024 – Funded $15,000
120
To feed the homeless, sponsor native youth & adult programs lecturer, provide meals and diaconate programs, and provide Sisters’ retreats and meals. 2023 – Funded $38,425
250
To buy special electronic equipment (BigMack switches &iPads) for use by those enrolled in the Adult Day Program at St. Joseph Home for disabled young adults. 2023 – Funded $5,000
48
To subsidize the Retreat Scholarship Program, a week-long service Catholic retreat for 36 at-risk disadvantaged youths. 2023 – Funded $12,600
36
To subsidize tuition costs at Franciscan School of Theology in San Diego for four student-friars in post-novitiate Franciscan formation in Silver Springs, MD. 2023 – Funded $10,000
4
To subsidize the cost of having the incoming class of postulants travel to California to visit the Novitiate House and spend 7 to 10 days in Arroyo Grande. 2023 – Funded $11,000
9
To subsidize the Solidarity Fund that supports the work of our missionary Friars working in remote area of the world. 2023 – Funded $15,000
120
To subsidize the work of our missionary Friars working in remote areas of the world. 2022 – Funded $ 15,000
120
To help feed the homeless, sponsor native youth and adult programs lecturers, and provide meals, diaconate programs and provide Sisters’ retreat and meals. 2022 – Funded $ 25,400
109
To replace the heat pump at St. Joseph Home Intermediate Care Facility for disabled children, and to add a special toddler size bed for a young disable resident. 2022 – Funded $ 13,694
48
To subsidize the cost of replacing a 10-yr old van that would allow volunteers to have reliable transportation for all the volunteers to and from service sites. 2022 – Funded $ 16,550
8
To provide assistance (food, medical, temporary shelter) to immigrants and those living in poverty in the Las Cruses metro area. 2021 – Funded $ 15,000
700
To subsidize the cost of housing (short period) refugees and asylum seekers fleeing Central & S. America until they reach their sponsor families. 2021 – Funded $12,000
200
To help maintain a Director of Evangelization who will help provide services to the homeless and low-income populations in North Chicago. 2020 – Funded $ 10,000
2500
To expand outreach to poor people in need of assistance because of long term medical treatment in Las Cruces and can’t afford accomodations and food while they get their treatment. 2020 – Funded $ 6,000
200
To replace 2 convection ovens at the Franciscan Kitchen to continue serving hot and healthy meals to the indigent / homeless population. 2020 – Funded $ 7,000
1000
To buy building materials for St Benedict’s parish hall kitchen expansion to continue serving hot meals to the indigent / homeless population. 2020 – Funded $ 8,000
487
To set up cold storage units for harvesting, storing, and transporting fresh produce to the Franciscan Food Pantry in Baltimore. 2020 – Funded $ 8,000
400
To provide mentoring, advocacy, education, and 1 month of rental assistance to 125 families in Georgia to help them avoid eviction. 2020 – Funded $ 15,000
125
To replace 2 convection ovens at the Franciscan Kitchen to continue serving hot and healthy meals to the indigent / homeless population. 2020 – Funded $ 7,000
1000
To subsidize the cost of housing (for a short time) refugees and asylum seekers fleeing Central and S. America from the time they are released by U.S. Immigration officials until they reach their sponsor families. 2019 – Funded $ 18,000
700
To help hire a Director of Evangelization that will help to maintain much needed-services to the homeless and low-income populations of the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago. 2019 – Funded $ 15,000
900
To buy positioning equipment (i.e., chest harnesses, freestanding trays, lateral and foot bolsters, sensory rockers, chill out chairs, and activity trays) for St Joseph Home. 2019 – Funded $ 8,775
48
To buy a replacement refrigeration system for the Franciscan Kitchen, where they provide hot and balanced meals to over 500 street people daily. 2018 – Funded $ 13,900
1,000
To help pay for a Community Resource Developer position, that will expand and promote parishes’ involvement and sponsorship of Catholic Charities’s Resettlement Program. 2018 – Funded $ 15,000
800
To hire a farm coordinator to oversee the growing of organic produces at Little Portion Farm. Produce will be used exclusively for the hot meal program at the Franciscan Center in Baltimore. 2018 – Funded $ 15,000
700
To subsidize tuition costs of students attending St Catherine of Siena and St Mary’s catholic schools in hurricane Harvey devastated Beaumont metro, Texas. 2018 – Funded $ 25,000
750
To help pay for a Community Resource Developer position, that will expand and promote parishes’ involvement and sponsorship of Catholic Charities’ Refugee Resettlement Program. 2017 – Funded $ 25,000
800
El Paso -Villa Maria for Homeless Shelter for Women. For food & food service supplies. 2016 – Funded $ 15,000
55
To help women create, market and sell products to gain additional income for their families. Refugee Resettlement Loom Project. 2015 – Funded $ 25,000
800
To build a new learning center (Bishop Curtis Guillory Learning Center) where children can attend CCD classes and for the elderly to receive food supplies and social services. 2015 – Funded $ 15,000
1,500
Individuals
served per month
Papua New Guinea
To provide a home for neglected or abused children where they can get proper care, nutritious meals and education. 2018 – Funded $25,000
18
18
Individuals
served per month
Italy
49,733
Buy an electric vehicle (minibus) necessary to pick up kids who don’t have their own transport so that they can get to the center. 2024 – Funded $25,000
40
To expand a Food Pantry that offers food and basic necessities to poor families, and also to make deliveries to the home of the elderly and people who are ill. 2023 – Funded $ 36,800
220
Evangelization
15,000
To provide financial assistance to 40 indigent families with children with low or $0 income for 4 months. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
140
To house homeless men, women and children during daytime and provide medical and emergency relief hygiene kits during the hours of 8am to 7pm for 3 months. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
750
To assist 30 families with food and education for 40 kids for 3 months. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
135
To provide food supplies and utilities, rent, and mortgage assistance for 35 families for 2 months. 2021 – Funded $ 16,000
123
To provide grocery vouchers to 30 families who lost their jobs for 8 months. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
120
To buy food and cleaning supplies from wholesale grocers to give to 350 families of persons who are incarcerated.
2021 – Funded $ 20,000
1225
To purchase 50 tablets to give to children in primary school children who don’t have access to computers/tablet for remote learning. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
50
To provide BoxBon (110 food boxes weekly) to needy families, elderly, and disabled for 6 months. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
1540
To provide financial assistance to individuals who are currently not working due to the pandemic, and offer job training and re-employment training for 3 months. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
125
To buy food and help with rent and utilities for 50 poor families of low skill workers, underemployed, unemployed because of the pandemic for 5 months. 2021 – Funded $ 25,000
175
To purchase a small van to be used at S. Francesco Therapeutic Community, to bring those who are receiving treatment at the center to and from the center. 2020 – Funded $ 15,000
90
Evangelization – Basilica of St Anthony. Sponsor the costs of updating St. Anthony’s multimedia exhibition to help visitors deepen their knowledge of the life of Saint Anthony. 2018 – Funded $ 150,000
15,000
Evangelization – Sponsor the costs of updating St. Anthony’s multimedia exhibition to help visitors deepen their knowledge of the life of Saint Anthony. 2019 – Funded $ 150,000
15,000
Croatia/Serbia/Bosnia
34
To provide food, medical services, shelter and job training for migrant families and lone children who have fled war-torn countries and find themselves homeless or living in refugee camps. 2022 – Funded $ 30,000
34
Ukraine
10
To help the Friars in Ukraine, Poland, and Romania offer refuge and aid to people who can’t leave or have chosen to remain in their homes. 2022 – Funded $ 50,000
To complete renovations to a foster home in Dunajivci, which will provide a home to a foster family of 10 orphaned children. 2020 – Funded $ 10,000
10
Romania
10,039
To buy a home that will be used to house refugees fleeing Ukraine and orphaned youths, who after they age out of orphanages find themselves homeless. 2022 – Funded $ 23,400
39
Job training – To offer young at-risk youth (both male and female) a chance to learn a trade. 2018 – Funded $ 10,000
10,000
Scotland
Catholic teaching – Chaplaincy Ministry for students at Aberdeen College. 2015 – Funded $ 5,000
5,000
5,000
Individuals
served per month
Burkina Faso
To provide safe housing, a proper education, clean drinking water and healthy nutritious meals to the forgotten and abused children, especially young girls of Koudougou. 2021 – Funded $30,000.
250
250
Cameroon
To provide hot meals to poor children who attend school at St Joseph Nursery School in Mamfe, at least one meal a day for the entire school year. 2023 – Funded $ 26,750
3,785
585
To provide food, health care, job training for the homeless in the Garou Archdiocese. 2015 – Funded $ 7,200
1,200
To buy the materials to dig wells to provide drinking water to 2,000 people in Bokito. 2015 – Funded $ 29,000
2,000
Congo
3,000
To drill two water wells near the Mundembu school complex and provide clean water to hundreds of children and their families. 2022 – Funded $ 33,435
300
To purchase equipment for the Obika medical center, specifically the department of pediatrics as to provide much needed and appropriate medical services to women and children. 2019 – Funded $ 17,100
2,000
To buy and install a solar panel system for Saint Raphael Medical Centre and for its maternity ward. 2016 – Funded $ 9,500
700
Guinea
To purchase tools /farming materials to cultivate a rise paddy that will feed the entire community. 2020 – Funded $ 10,000
500
500
Israel
To educate 30-35 poor indigent women about disease prevention, proper nutrition, child-rearing, job training. 2016 – Funded $ 5,962
5,962
5,962
Ivory Coast
To set up and operate for one year a rehabilitation program at Belleville for a group of 20 women suffering from various kinds of mental illnesses. 2019 – Funded $ 19,500
200
200
Kenya
10,722
Subsidize the cost of having a scholar/promoter travel to Kenya and speak to the Post Novitiate class of 25 friars to prepare them for their priestly ministerial duties. 2024 – Funded $9,300
25
Complete the construction of a high cistern for greater water storage and related canalization at St Francis training Catholic college. 2024 – Funded $7000
1,525
To excavate a well and install 2 cisterns to collect water that will be used at the all-girl high school and neighboring communities. 2023 – Funded $22,000
465
To buy a vehicle to assist with the work of our missionary Friars at Holy Cross – Katanga Mission, a poor and very remote region.
2022 – Funded $ 24,130
175
To buy a vehicle to be used at Kikambala Catholic Parish.
2021 – Funded $ 10,000
450
To implement an education/advocacy program on hygiene, malnutrition, proper health screening and vitamins, aimed at reducing infant mortality. 2020 – Funded $ 13,000
540
To buy a used vehicle needed to reach out beyond the Parish and travel out to distant rural communties. 2020 – Funded $ 15,000
2500
To drill a borehole nearby the Parish to mitigate the effects of draught and thereby assure that the friars and the local families have clean water available to them. 2020 – Funded $ 28,000
540
To complete the building of a Maternity Unit in the St Francis of Assisi dispensary run by the Conventual Franciscans. 2019 – Funded $ 25,000
2,000
To build a Maternity Unit in the St Francis of Assisi dispensary run by the Conventual Franciscans. 2018 – Funded $ 25,000
2,000
To buy building materials for a poultry house to improve the diet of the 40 children of Tone La Maji shelter house and to offer these products in the community at reasonable prices. 2017 – Funded $ 15,000
60
To buy a school bus for school children attending nursery and primary school. 2016 – Funded $ 33,500
240
To complete phase 2 of a new carpentry workshop/school project. The school will serve many young people who often turn to illegal activities in order to survive. 2016 – Funded $ 65,238
30
To buy the materials to dig wells and provide drinking water to an orphanage that houses 172 kids, many of them have AiDS. 2015 – Funded $ 16,450
172
Lebanon
Buy and distribute monthly boxes of food and other items to poorest families living in the area that no longer can afford to buy food. 2024 – Funded $30,000
1,350
450
To deliver warm meals and safe, drinkable water, along much needed clothing to Syrian refugees. 2016 – Funded $ 44,155
900
Liberia
872
To complete the construction on the current premises of additional kindergarten classes, as well as offices and meeting rooms. 2022- Funded $ 17,300
280
Liberia Mission – direct services and care of orphaned children. 2016 – Funded $ 12,000
190
Liberia Mission: To provide direct services and care of resident orphaned children. 2015 – Funded $ 15,000
382
Madagascar
Build a welcome center that will provide space for cooking hot meals for patients who can’t afford to bring their own while in treatment. Currently, patients’ families must provide their own. 2024 – Funded $25,000
2,500
2,500
Malawi
To build materials to build shelters for forty (40) poor students who are attending St Francis Catholic secondary school. 2022 – Funded $ 20,000
40
40
Mauritania
Feed 150 children (ages 2–6) daily and provide intensive care for 20-30 malnourished ones who are in recovery at the malnutrition center. 2024 – Funded $15,000
150
150
Mozambique
ASEM Association: To buy materials to begin the soil preparation process (seeds, seedlings, fertilizer and tools to work the land) to provide the villagers of Mapinhane with sustainably farmed produce and other basic foods and the means to support themselves. 2017 – Funded $ 30,000
300
300
Rwanda
To purchase the necessary materials to build a refrigerated room of 36 sqm for the ripening of cheese, ultimately benefiting many families currently involved in the process and sale of cheese. 2019 – Funded $ 17,100
759
759
Tanzania
14,833
To excavate a well and install 1 elevated cistern and immersion pump and pipes, to supply water to St. Anthony of Padua parish and neighboring communities. 2023 – Funded $9,500
11,000
To support vulnerable youth of St. Anna Training Centre by teaching them how to sew so that they can earn a living. 2022 – Funded $ 13,400
100
To buy materials for building of a medical clinic that will include an operating room, patients’ intake room, bathrooms, sterilization room, laundry, doctor’s office, and warehouse space. 2019 – Funded $ 21,660
1,800
To complete the work of renovating the medical dispensary Carol Lwanga, due to the increasing number of patients who turn to this facility. 2020 – Funded $ 25,000
1,933
Togo
To set up a vocational training center in Togo to assist people with mental illness and to restore them to their community. 2019 – Funded $ 30,000
150
150
Uganda
Install an irrigation system for the nuns’ farming project that will increase production & revenues from animals & coffee. 2024 – Funded $13,000
550
550
Zambia
To add bathing and toilet facilities with running water at Chililabombwe Mother Angela Feeding Center. 2018 – Funded $ 15,000
4,550
125
Purchase a hammer mill and buy seeds, so as to start cultivating crops (corn, soybeans, peanuts, sunflowers) and for feeding animals. 2024 – Funded $21,000
1,295
Purchase a hammer mill and buy seeds, so as to start cultivating crops (corn, soybeans, peanuts, sunflowers) and for feeding animals. 2024 – Funded $21,000
1,295
To buy a used van to use at the Chibote leprosy center operated by the Franciscan Missionary Sisters. 2018 – Funded $ 25,000
250
To set up a demo plot near St. Kalemba rural parish, managed by the Zambian friars, to provide the more elderly residents with locally grown produce and other basic foods. 2017 – Funded $ 8,000
1,200
To buy materials for the renovation and furnishing of the sister’s infirmary at Monastery of St Clare. 2017 – Funded $ 20,000
1,000
To buy training materials and equipment for the centre where the most vulnerable and disadvantaged youths can learn trade skills. 2017 – Funded $ 11,250
30
To renovate and for maintenance of St Theresa’s Mission Convent. 2016 – Funded $ 20,000
125
To train youths with auto mechanic’s skill to enhance their employment opportunities. 2016 – Funded $ 15,000
250
To underwrite the cost of constructing the Administration Block at the M.A.M.P.S. Job Training Center as per government regulation. 2016 – Funded $ 20,000
70
To provide supplementary help to the chronically ill patients in and around Lwawu Mission. 2015 – Funded $ 10,500
1500
Individuals
served per month
India
10,960
Help underwrite the shipping costs of the English edition of the Messenger of St. Anthony to the faithful in India. 2024 – Funded $3,500
1000
Make repairs to a hostel that houses 270 kids. Areas in need of updates are 2 girls’ bathrooms and several shared living spaces. 2024 – Funded $15,000
270
To build a new school in a remote part of India, where hundreds of poor children will be able to receive the education they need to improve their lives. 2023 – Funded $30,000
175
To help underwrite the shipping costs of the English edition of the Messenger of St. Anthony in India. 2023 – Funded $3,500
1000
To evangelize St Anthony’s teachings with our brothers and sisters in India. 2022 – Funded $ 3,500
1000
To install a “Mineral Water Plant” at Holy Cross College, Alirajpet village, Archdiocese of Hyderabad, Telangana State, South India. 2018 – Funded $ 4,250
265
To evangelize St Anthony’s message in India.
2021 – Funded $3,500
To care for the needs of 25 poor primary school children In India. 2021 – Funded $ 13,000
To help underwrite the printing and shipping of the Messenger. 2015/2020 – Funded $ 21,000
1,000
25
To install a “Mineral Water Plant” at Holy Cross College, Alirajpet village, Archdiocese of Hyderabad, Telangana State, South India. 2018 – Funded $ 4,250
550
To fund 15 job training courses in India aimed at assisting women with children, whose husbands are abroad seeking work, gain the necessary skills to survive their hardship. 2015+2017 – Funded $ 13,103
675
To install a Reverse Osmosis Plant for drinking water and a main entrance gate at Bala Yesu Boy’s Hostel and Greyfriars’ Junior College. 2015 – $ 11,000
5,000
Indonesia
To help the children living at Bandar Baru orphanage have a better future providing for their basic needs and also teaching vital life skills. 2015 – Funded $ 30,400
800
800
Pakistan
To provide the women of Khushpur, Pakistan with a center of learning to teach professional skills. 2017 – Funded $ 34,471
150
150
Philippines
To care for young girls residing at Angel’s Home who are orphaned, abandoned, or removed from their homes because of abuse. 2023 – Funded $20,500
94
44
To help with the costs of implementing fish farming and fruit & vegetable production at Bata ng Calabnugan, a group home for orphaned girls. 2017 – Funded $ 40,000
To buy needed materials for the expansion of the Bata ng Calabnugan Group Home’s kitchen, also adding bathrooms, and 8 new beds. 2020 – Funded $12,000
50
Sri Lanka
To build new housing, offer medical care, and a set up a Community Center for those affected by the 2019 Easter bombing. 2020 – Funded $ 30,000
150
150
Turkey & Syria
To distribute emergency aid (i.e., food, water, blankets, hygiene kits and medicines) to families that have lost their homes. 2023 – Funded $30,000
250
250
Vietnam
2,450
To buy and install a solar energy system (panels and battery storage) for off-grid energy production and storage to run the water purification system and food prep services to the leprosarium. 2022 – Funded $ 9,800
125
To buy and install commercial-grade ovens and kitchen-bakery equipment to set up and run food services for Bread of Saint Anthony ministry. 2022 – Funded $ 9,800
125
To help the Friars create a new learning center with computers, musical instruments and art supplies that will serve the many children cared for at the Mission. 2018 – Funded $ 6,000
50
To buy 2 motorbikes to support weekly visitations that provide food and pharmaceuticals to elderly, sick and disabled children. 2017 – Funded $ 5,180
150
To install a water Purification system at the Leprosarium in Thái Bình, Vietnam to provide clean drinkable water. 2016 – Funded $ 6,800
2,000
