A cake sale is being held on Sunday 5th October 2008, in the Holy Family Hall, Youghal directly after 11.00am Mass. It is in aid of Missionaries of Charity, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The Mother Teresa nuns run a home for abandoned children, physically and mentally disabled youth, sick and destitute elderly people. The O’Shea family of the Ferrypoint, Youghal have been helping there since July. The Home is well run by the nuns in very difficult circumstances e.g.. no running water, limited clothes and nappies and any help no matter how small is very much appreciated. Missionaries of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious order established in 1950 by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, which consists of over 4,500 nuns and is active in 133 countries. Members of the order designate their affiliation using the order’s initials, “MC.” Member nuns must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give “Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor”.
Missionaries care for those who include refugees, ex-prostitutes, the mentally ill, sick children, abandoned children, lepers, AIDS victims, the aged, and convalescent. They have schools run by volunteers to educate street children, they run soup kitchens, as well as many other services as per the communities’ needs.

They have 19 homes in Kolkata (Calcutta) alone which include homes for women, for orphaned children, and for the dying; an AIDS hospice, a school for street children, and a leper colony. These services are provided to people regardless of their religion or social caste.

In 1990, Mother Teresa asked to resign as head of the Missionaries, but was soon voted back in as Superior General. On March 13, 1997, six months before Mother Teresa’s death, Sister Mary Nirmala Joshi was selected the new Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity.