After two years of training, she was sent Bathurst Island where she lived for five years. During that time, she cared for hundreds of children, teaching the girls how to cook. In 1941 Sister Eucharia then travelled to Melville Island to work in a new home for mixed race Aboriginal children. Before the Japanese attack on northern Australia in 1942, Sister Eucharia and two other nuns accompanied forty-one children to Darwin: they were evacuated to Melbourne and then Adelaide. They returned home in 1945.