India Mission

Throughout India the RNDM Sisters are involved in a variety of ministries including administration and teaching in schools at all levels, from Kindergarten to University College and both formal and informal, social work, health care, pastoral work and empowerment of women. The ministries are in both cities and in many rural and remote areas where there has not been any opportunity of health care or education. The Sisters, as a priority, work with ethnic and tribal groups who are among the most marginalised in this country where the caste system is still very strong.

Project 1 – Kalyanpur Hostel

Kalyanpur Hostel (Holy Angels) for Girls attending Bengali Medium School. Many of the parents are illiterate but they are gradually recognising the value of sending their children to school. Children from remote villages come to school if there is a hostel and boarding facilities.

Project 3 – Free Afternoon School, Kolkata

Queen of the Missions, Park Circus, Kolkata, India is a prestigious girls’ school with a history of over 100 years. This is a fee-paying school for daughters of wealthy families. This school opens at 7am and concludes at 1pm each day. At 2pm the same classrooms are used as a free Afternoon School for girls from the slums and streets of Kolkata. These girls would not otherwise have the opportunity of an education. If the families had any available funds for education they would use it for education of their boys! Many of the girls have been awarded scholarships and gone on to higher education and have become nurses, teachers, etc, thus rising out of the poverty cycle.