Education & Leadership Development
Access to education can be a key to individual and community transformation. Our lay missioners teach at all school levels and are engaged in education programs that promote basic literacy, provide vocational skills and train local leaders. Every year lay missioners touch the lives of students of all ages through educational initiatives in both formal and informal venues and with students who range from preschoolers to incarcerated men and women.
Teaching and Educational Resources
Maryknoll lay missioners teach in preschool, primary and secondary schools as well as at universities. We address educational needs from basic literacy to critical thinking and life skills. We also seek to enhance access to education through scholarships, after-school programs, libraries, and resource centers.
Vocational and Skills Training
Lay missioners work in technical schools, in prisons and in community settings offering training that leads to increased economic opportunity, self-sufficiency and important life skills.
Vocational and Skills Training
Lay missioners work in technical schools, in prisons and in community settings offering training that leads to increased economic opportunity, self-sufficiency and important life skills.
Leadership Development
Through training teachers and local leaders, lay missioners help communities create a path forward toward changes that will continue long after the lay missioner leaves.
Our missioners in Education & Leadership
Featured stories
Joy is a Choice
Maryknoll Lay Missioner, Joanne Miya, reflects on the privilege she has witnessing joy in numerous encounters while in Tanzania.
Bond & Rocha Summer 2026 Update
Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Kathy Bond and Flavio Focha, provide details about the upcoming EcoRetreat in Monrovia, CA they’ll be facilitating.
My SMILE Moments in Mission
Julie Lawler discusses the healing power pottery had recently with a group of DDP students in Cambodia, and the smiles that it created.
