Sisters of the Child Jesus

According to the statistics, at the present time there are 232 sisters. The Institute has 57 houses. Being an active Institute of Diocesan Right SJI Sisters are involved in pastoral work, teaching, nursing and involved in direct evangelization, teaching, nursing and projects addressing the needs of the poor and vulnerable groups like women and children. One of the major recommendations by the 2001 SJI General Chapter was to take concrete steps towards becoming of Pontifical Right. The congregation, through its leadership, is working on the process towards fulfilling that recommendation.

The SJI Motherhouse is in Gweru diocese at Driefontein Mission and Generalate is in the city of Gweru. The majorioty of the sisters work in the diocese of Gweru and Masvingo. The SJI institute, at the invitation of the local ordinaries, has opened housed in the ollowing dioceses Harare, Bulawyo, Chimoio Mozmbique, etc.

From 1989 to 2003, the SJI Sisters served as formators of the "Sisters of our Lady of the Visitation" o the Diocese of Quelimane in Mozambique. This is a newly founded diocesan congreatio of that diocese. The new congreation had its first General Chapter in January 2003 and elected its first Superior General. The SJI sisters eventually pulled out in April 2003.