Missionaries of Charity their families every five years but do not take annual holidays. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics constitute the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, and the Lay Missionaries of Charity. The first home of the Missionaries of Charity in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York. In the USA, the Missionaries of Charity are affiliated with the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, a body of female religious, representing 20% of American nuns. They are identified by the wearing of religious habits, and loyalty to church teaching. By 1996, the organisation was operating
Nirmala Convent High School Nirmala Convent High School Nirmala Convent High School (NCHS) is a K-10 English medium co-educational convent school in Nashik, Maharashtra, India that was established in 1964. It is governed by the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. It is headquartered in India at Mary Hill, Bandra, Mumbai, whose head is Sr. Eunice Menezes, a former principal of the school. The school follows the Rule of Life of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi. There are four student groups known as houses and students represent