The needs have changed and so have the ministries of the Sisters. Some are still engaged in teaching, two Sisters in very needy schools and one in a learning enhancement centre for school drop-outs. Drugs, crime, youth suicides, domestic violence and marriage break-up beset the lives of many children and families. One Sister has recently trained in Social Practice to work among families in need. Another is chaplain to the growing Indian community. In Wellington the Sisters are involved in literacy, advocacy,
visiting the sick and lonely, the Catholic Enquiry Centre and Spiritual A recent innovation in our Province was the establishment of an inter-Provincial novitiate in Auckland. This was an initiative of the three Provinces of Fiji, Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand. The small community in residence there has an outreach to youth in the neighbouring parishes and currently runs a daily after-school homework session for the immigrant children who live near them - from Afghanistan and Fiji. The women of the families also come to the Sisters for English lessons. Meanwhile the Sisters maintain contact with the staff and pupils of their former College, offering formative sessions in Marist charism and Spirituality. The spirit of Mary inspires the Sisters in
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Direction. In the Bay of Plenty visiting, sitting with the blind, hospital
visitation and work among Maori women and children is carried out in rural and
city areas. The Sisters try to meet the spiritual needs of those among whom they
live.
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their undertakings. Her warm and compassionate approach to people is their
ideal as they try to live with simplicity and faith. Prayer together and
alone sustains them in all they do. 
