Lack of vocations causes religious retirement in children’s home in El Salvador

The “decrease in vocations” has led the company of the daughters of charity to cease the care and protection services offered to children in vulnerability in the home of the child San Vicente de Paúl, in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Through a statement on August 18Sor Delia Cabrera, Superior General of Central America and provincial visitor, explained that since 2020 the Congregation undertook a process of review of the works that make up their work.

This reflection has involved “reflection, prayer and dialogue to discern where God loves us and how to better serve the poorest and needy; as a result, the review has involved the closure or retirement of some works.”

“The service to the poorest is the central point of all discernment, but also the lack of personnel, (decrease in vocations). For this reason we have chosen to retire from some institutions in which it has been used for many years,” said the religious.

As of September 1, 2025, the daughters of charity will withdraw from the home of the child San Vicente de Paúl, which serves children between zero and twelve. According to your websitechildren enter for reasons such as orphanhood, abandonment, physical abuse, negligence of parents, begging, family conflicts and sexual abuse, and most present emotional problems, health and malnutrition.

The sisters arrived for the first time on April 28, 1877 and, since 1974, assumed the direction and total administration of the institution. Currently, the Child’s home coordinated with the National Council of Early Childhood, Children and Adolescents (Conapina), the government agency responsible for guaranteeing the rights of childhood and adolescence in the country, working in co -responsibility with the family, the State and society.

Some versions in mLocal editions They pointed out that the State would have asked the sisters to deliver the administration; However, the Congregation clarified that “they will withdraw from this work because we do not have personnel to assume the address.” In the Facebook publication they specify that “it is a decision made in the internal of our province and has nothing to do with external decisions. Please, we ask you not to share false news.”

Even so, the daughters of Charity reaffirmed that they will continue their work at the Moraga Home, in coordination with Conapina, as well as in schools and other programs in favor of the most needy.

The congregation thanked “all your interest, words of mood, accompaniment and their prayers. God is the author of every work and he knows along the path that takes us.”