The Daughters of St. Mary of Providence were founded in 1881 by Saint Louis Guanella to spread the “Culture of Charity.” The Daughters are currently serving in 16 countries around the world, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Romania, India, Congo, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Mexico, Canada and the United States. We are sent out to evangelize those in need and to reveal to them the Provident love of the Father with our works of mercy. We dedicate ourselves with a preferential love to persons less favored with gifts of intelligence and physical health, as well as, those in need of religious formation, and those deprived of human support. We offer our lives to as many as providence puts on our path ad feel the solicitous to be “sister, mother and friend,” to become one family with them.