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South India
Assisi Province – South India
In the 1960s, more than 30 young women came from Kerala, South India to Germany and entered our community. They were educated as nurses, midwives, kindergarten teachers and parish assistants. A group of these sisters returned to India in 1975 and opened a convent and school in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh in the north. In 1977, another group of Indian sisters began working in Kerala in the south. Since then the community has grown rapidly in both the north and south.
South India became a province of the School Sisters of St. Francis in 2000 and took the name Assisi Province. The Provincial House is located in Kanjikode, Kerala. Currently there are over 90 sisters in South India and over 14 young women in the process of entering our community.
Our sisters of the Assisi Province in South India:
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Teach in kindergartens, English-language schools and vocational schools;
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Minister to people in the villages;
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Provide religious instruction in parishes;
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Staff rural health clinics and offer health education;
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Provide social work services;
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Collaborate with other communities to staff a hospital.
For more information about the work and ministry of our sisters in South India, visit their website www.assisiosfindia.org or contact:
Assisi Dann
Sacred Heart Road
T.C. Palya P.O.
K R Puram
Bangalore - 560036
Karnataka State
INDIA