The Association of the Immaculate Heart
"O Mary, who was born without Sin, lend us your love and prayer"
The Association of the Immaculate Heart (Latin: Immaculati Cordis Consociatione) is a Catholic religious order and Charity that aims to improve the well being of peoples across the world, it is also used as a humanitarian aid foundation in conflicts and the aftermath of natural disasters. The AIH is staffed nearly entirely by Nuns of various covenants and orders in ES and across the world. It is one of the world's largest humanitarian organisations in the world, with the purpose of providing vaccinations, medical care, social care, education and distribution of humanitarian aid, along with a budget of $1.2 billion (secured through funding by the Church and public donations) and having over 335,000 volunteers. The AIH also campaigns to change the rules and systems that keep people poor, speaking out on issues such as tax justice, trade justice, climate change, and denial of worker's rights. The current Mother General Superior and Mother Lieutenant are Mother Arilda and Weronika Wisowaty respectively.
The AIH has a strong presence in ES, in poverty stricken rural areas, the AIH is known to provide free healthcare to peasants and their children. Between 2000 and 2010, the AIH vaccinated over 65.3 million children from polio, measles, smallpox, chickenpox and tetanus, they inoculated over 22.65 million girls for Ovarian cancer. The AIH has been at the forefront of medical care in various deadly outbreaks of disease in ES itself. In 2002, the AIH launched a subsidiary, the Children of the Holy Mother of Christ with the aim of providing care for orphans in the Ecclesiastical State, in 2010 the CHMC was expanded to run adoption services in some poor countries, ensuring the children were adopted by foreign parents according to the nation in question's laws, following numerous counts of bribery, where the children were adopted by "unsatisfactory couples with little to no talent in parenthood."
AIH is also a major player in dealing with homelessness in ES, however AIH's activities in this area have provoked heavy criticism over reports that the AIH press-gangs homeless men into the Ecclesiastical Army of Christ or took them to work in Church Workshops, which are found to be nothing more than sweatshops, the AIH defends its actions, by detailing statistics on the number of homeless finding stable lives after they had acted.
