The charitable activities of the sisters were expanded with a first free infant school of the city of Mechelen in “the Garden of Busleyden and with a lace school for poor children from “the Begijnenhof”. This was followed by a primary school in the parish of Hanswijk and a lace school in the “Pepperstreet”. After a while the sisters in Mechelen run eight institutes.

 

In Halle, near Brussels, the sisters also keep open an orphans home and in Walem they rule a primary school. Later there also had a few homes in Diegem, Boortmeerbeek, Wambeek, Schaarbeek en Geel.