Missionaries of Charity was to care for (in Mother Teresa's words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It began as a small community with 12 members in Calcutta (now Kolkata), and today it has over 4,500 Sisters running orphanages, home for those dying of AIDS, charity centres worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin
Nirmala High School, Brahmavar Nirmala High School, Brahmavar Nirmala High School, Brahmavara (Kannada:ನಿರ್ಮಲಾ ಹೈಸ್ಕೂಲ್) is a Kannada medium high school in Brahmavar, Karnataka, India that was sstablished in 1963. Nirmala High School was started by the Sisters of Charity in 1963. The School officially opened on June 7, 1963. Earlier school was an all-girls school and later turned into a full-fledged high school for boys and girls. Sr Elizabeth Fernandes is correspondent of the school and Mrs. Irene Menezes is additional headmistress of the school. The school celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2013. The Golden jubilee function was held on Friday December 13, 2013.