Guimaras is a small island located southeast of Panay Island and northwest of Negros Island in Western Visayas, Philippines. Three of the original missionaries came from our Indonesia province and one sister, a native Filipina, came from the Chardon, Ohio (USA) province. They responded to the request of the archbishop of Iloilo to have Sisters of Notre Dame work among poor people of Sabang, Sibunag, Guimaras.