The General Section was created in 1965 under the authority of the Conference of the Major Superiors of France.

It is managed by Union Saint-Martin. The Director is Mr. Sylvain SACHELI.
Mr. Michael Colasse is the manager of the Contributions and Benefits Department of the General Section. It is made up of a team of 4 persons who are in charge of the daily business of the Section.

Members: 8525 (according to the 2009 figures) covered in 147 countries

3, rue Duguay-Trouin
75280 PARIS CEDEX 06
FRANCE

Opening days of the office:
from Monday to Friday
de 9h-12h et 13h-17h

The Belgium Section is composed as follows: Administrator: SM MRB (Societé Mutualiste MRB) Manager: Mr. Lucien Lavrysen
Assistant: Mr. Guy Kerremans
The Belgium Section covers 419 persons across 38 countries.
The mutualist company MRB aims at:
- helping congregations and religious people on a social level,
- advising them about the social legislation,
- organizing a socio-cultural movement for the sick and handicapped religious (by organizing meetings and trainings, holidays, pilgrimages, forums for the care coordinators for the sick in the communities…),
- managing the IMS healthcare,
- publishing a quarterly magazine “Info-MRB”.

CM MRB EMI
CHAUSSEE DE HAECHT 1805
1130 BRUXELLES
BELGIQUE

The West Africa Section is composed as follows: Managing Community: CERAO
(Conference Episcopale Régionale Afrique de l’Ouest) Manager: Sister Michelle Mauras
Secretariat: Benefits Department
The West Africa Section covers 5650 persons across 9 countries: Cote d’Ivoire – Benin – Togo - Burkina Faso – Mali – Guinea Conakry – Senegal – Mauritania – Niger
Welcoming centre CERAO: 3 rooms intended in priority for post-surgical stays or for people coming from afar.
Third-party payment: for hospitalizations in Abidjan (only if the Section has received a hospitalization notice and if it has filled in a request.)

II Plateaux
28 - BP 922
ABIDJAN - 28 R.C.I.

Opening days of the office: from Monday to Friday
from 8am to 17pm

The Central Africa Section is composed of a manager, Father NADJANA, and a Secretary, Sister Charo Garcia.

It covers 2284 persons across 5 countries: Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville.

BP 168
YAOUNDE
CAMEROON

Opening hours of the office :from Monday to Friday from
7.30am to 12.30pm

The Madagascar Section was created in 1973 under the authority of the Episcopal Conference of Madagascar: C.E.M.
It is managed by the Administrative Secretary of the CEM who is also the Section Manager: Father Krzysztof PAWLUKIEWICZ, member of the Society of the Divine Verb.
The manager is assisted by the Secretary who is in charge of the daily business of the Section. The Section’s office is in Antananarivo, 102 bis Rue Cardinal Jérôme Rakotomalala Antanimena.
It gathers 11 of the 21 dioceses existing in Madagascar and 21 religious congregations.Members: 413 (according to the 2009 figures).

BP 667
ANTANANARIVO 101
MADAGASCAR
MALAGASY REPUBLIC

Opening hours of the office: from 8am to 12am
Outside business hours, please call the following number: 032 04 62131