The members go to the villages or to slum areas, live together with the poor and the disabled. Their task is to help and to empower the abandoned poor disabled .The Vincentian Secular Institute A.L.M.A ( acronym for ” Asossiasi Lembaga Misionaris Awam” ,which means Association of Lay Missionaries for the poor and the disabled) was born on 27 September 1960, the 300th anniversary of the death of St.Vincent de Paul , in Madiun, Indonesia and officially recognized as Secular Institute under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Malang in 1967.St.Vincent is their patron Saint.
Through Community Based Rehabilitation they change the mentality of the community towards the disabled and they look for all the unreached disabled in the community.They work through community groups,evangelization groups and charity groups existing there. If these basic groups are not existing they try to start and develop them and to ensure in this way the realization of the Gospel in the service of the poor unreached by the existing structures.
They live together with the most severely disabled.
As lay men and women, working with their own hands, they consecrate themselves to the service of the unreached poor, the abandoned, the disabled in the togetherness and in the community with the poor.
* 1.They live together with the disabled in the same house,the same room
* 2.They abstains completely from running schools or hospitals,
* 3.They work through basic communities or movements for the poor, Conferences of St.Vicent de Paul Society, Legion of Mary, for the development of the faith and the development of charity together with the local community.
For more information visit their web site at http://secularinstitute.almaindonesia.net/
