Missionaries of Charity 517 missions in more than 100 countries. In 1990, Mother Teresa asked to resign as head of the Missionaries, but was soon voted back in as Superior General. On March 13, 1997, six months before Mother Teresa's death, Sister Mary Nirmala Joshi was selected the new Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity. Sister Mary Prema was elected to succeed Sister Nirmala during a general chapter held in Kolkata in April 2009. In July 1998 in Al Hudaydah, Yemen, three Missionaries of Charity, two Indians and a Filipina, were shot and killed as they left a hospital. In March 2016
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.