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Beds For Seniors
A good night’s sleep shouldn’t be a luxury.
Vincentians are working directly with seniors in need, providing simple but life-changing bed packages that include a frame, mattress, sheets, pillows, and a blanket. A bed offers more than comfort. It brings dignity, rest, warmth, and a sense of being cared for.
Your gift today helps provide a complete bed or a part of one to a senior in Tanzania.
Together, we hope to fund 50 beds, giving elderly neighbors the chance to sleep safely and peacefully in their own homes.
Give A Goat
Give a Goat and Change a Life Forever
For just $25, you can send a goat to a refugee family in urgent need of milk, nutrition, and income. It’s more than a gift—it’s hope in the form of milk for hungry children, dignity for struggling parents, and a future for entire communities.
Each goat is delivered by the Vincentian priests in refugee camps across Rwanda and Burundi, where war and famine have left thousands of families with nothing.
Give A Goat
Give a Goat and Change a Life Forever
For just $25, you can send a goat to a refugee family in urgent need of milk, nutrition, and income. It’s more than a gift—it’s hope in the form of milk for hungry children, dignity for struggling parents, and a future for entire communities.
Each goat is delivered by the Vincentian priests in refugee camps across Rwanda and Burundi, where war and famine have left thousands of families with nothing.
Go to the poor; You will find God.
Vincentians serve the people who are on the margins—people who live in poverty, whom the world often thinks are unimportant. St. Vincent de Paul taught us to see the face of Christ in these people, to regard them as our lords and masters. Our donor-partners make it possible for Vincentian priests and brothers to shine the light of God’s love on them.
Seminarian
Support Fund
Dear to the heart of St. Vincent is the high-quality education, formation, and training of future priests. We have many seminarians and need your help providing them the basics: food, clothing, prayer books, school books.
Renovation of Our Motherhouse
We have lived at 95 Rue de Sévres for a little more than 200 years. This, our motherhouse, serves as the spiritual center of the Vincentian mission. Our 400- year history is honored here in unique ways. We have completed about half the renovation work that needs to be done so that we can continue to welcome pilgrims, revitalize the mission of St. Vincent around the world through the continuing formation of our members and pass on the unique way of St. Vincent to future generations. To do this we need your help. Your gift to the Renovation fund will allow us to bring to completion is transforming project.
Seminarian
Building Fund
We have 10 seminaries in Africa and South America that are filled to overflowing with a long line of men waiting for admission. We need your help to renovate and enlarge the seminaries so that we can prepare more men for service as Vincentian priests and brothers.
Beds for Seniors
A good night's sleep shouldn't be a luxury.
Vincentians are working directly with seniors in need, providing simple but life-changing bed packages that include a frame, mattress, sheets, pillows, and a blanket. A bed offers more than comfort. It brings dignity, rest, warmth, and a sense of being cared for.
Your gift today helps provide a complete bed or a part of one to a senior in Tanzania.
Together, we hope to fund 50 beds, giving elderly neighbors the chance to sleep safely and peacefully in their own homes.
Fueling the Mission of St. Vincent de Paul.
Empowering Vincentians to serve those on the margins across the world.
Who We Are
Vincentian International Mission Services (VIMS) helps fuel the growth and development of the Congregation of the Mission especially in countries where resources are few and progress is difficult. We also raise funds for special projects of the Superior General so that the mission of St. Vincent dePaul thrives in the 21st century.
Vincentians are agents of change. In his day, St. Vincent inspired clergy and lay people, royalty and peasants to serve those neglected by society. We continue his ministry today. Join us in making the world holier, kinder, more productive, in short, more the way God wants it.
It All Starts with a Single Act of Love. Give a Goat, Dig a Well, Fund Education—Transform a Life Forever.
Impact by the Numbers
Our mission is world-wide. Our ministry is local, personal.
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Explore Our Causes
Vincentian priests and brothers around the world staff parishes, seminaries, schools, health clinics, job training centers, and other kinds of service centers so that all God’s children, all our brothers and sisters can live in greater dignity. Like St. Vincent himself, we invite the people we serve to join us in our service so that everyone grows, learns, heals, and rejoices. Our ministry focuses on the presence of God in each person and builds from there.
Choose from one of our specific, life-changing projects below to see your donation in direct action.
Give A Goat
For a donation of just $25, you can provide a goat to a refugee family in Rwanda and Burundi. Delivered by Vincentian priests, the goat is a gift of hope that provides a sustainable source of milk for nutrition, babies for breeding, and income from selling extra milk, which restores purpose and dignity to families impacted by war and famine.
Maison Mère
This project is a major renovation of the Maison Mère in Paris, the international and spiritual home of the Congregation of the Mission since the early 19th century. The goal is to preserve this historical treasure and legacy of St. Vincent de Paul, while also making it accessible and comfortable for the priests, brothers, and the many groups who visit, study, and hold retreats there. Donations ensure the house has a long future of service for another 400 years.
Dig A Well
This project seeks to provide clean, reliable water to communities, such as Mfoundi, Cameroon, by digging wells. Access to a well saves families, particularly children, hours spent collecting water, allowing children to go to school and adults to focus on productive work. The water also enables family gardens and small businesses, creating a sustainable future.
WHERE NEEDED MOST
Fuel for the Mission
At VIMS we, thanks to our generous donors, do what Jesus did: feed, clothe, house, teach, heal, in a word love. Will you help the people we serve by fueling this mission? Your gift will help us have the resources when they are most needed.
VIMS supports missions around the world in places where needs are great and resources few.
We strive to create a faith-filled world where basic human needs are met, people are united, and humanity flourishes.
You can be confident that your donation will quickly have a positive impact on the lives of people served by Vincentian priests and brothers around the world. We will report to you, our donor, the good work your gift made possible: how it is that brothers and sisters in far-off lands are flourishing thanks to the fuel your gift provided for our mission.
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God Calls, We Respond
I have been supporting Catholic missionaries since I was a child when my classmates and I would bring our nickels and dimes to school to “save pagan babies.” While Vincentian mission work still includes baptisms and the other sacraments, it also includes supplying human needs: food, clothing, shelter, education, health care, and more especially to those people who are on the margins. You can guess who those people are: Those with physical or mental challenges, seniors, widows, orphans, prisoners, the chronically ill. Vincentian missionaries help provide support and relief to all these brothers and sisters. The more priests and brothers we have, the more people we can serve.Is God calling you to give a gift?Let me be candid. I’m careful choosing charities to support. I bet you are too. So, in addition to an annual audit, we invited an outside agency, “Candid” to review VIMS.They awarded us their Platinum Seal.
I hope you will be as generous as your means allow. If you want more information, please contact me:
Fr. Mark Pranaitis
mp@vims1617.org
Fuel for the Mission
Your immediate gift provides critical resources where the need is greatest, right now. A general donation is the most powerful way to support the full breadth of our work—from feeding the hungry and educating children to providing clean water and supporting our missionaries. Your flexible funding ensures we can respond instantly to emergencies and sustain our long-term, life-changing projects around the world.
Recurring Giving
Vincent’s Visionaries is a program for recurring donations to support the full range of the Vincentian mission. These gifts fund crucial initiatives in areas with few resources, including food programs, job training centers, education access (including building schools), clean water projects (digging wells), medical care, and seminary support for future priests.
Planned Giving
By including VIMS in your will or estate plan, you create a lasting legacy that will sustain the Vincentian mission for generations to come. A planned gift is a profound act of faith and love that continues to fuel essential services—feeding, housing, and educating those on the margins—long after your lifetime. It allows you to make a significant impact without affecting your current financial well-being.
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