ASIA/INDIA - “Serving the Sick means doing God’s Will”: Sisters of the Holy Cross Society celebrate 150th anniversary launching new programme to help children with hearing and speech impediments

Tuesday, 26 September 2006

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Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are at least 425,000 people who cannot hear or speak but no structures for specialised assistance. Now the Catholic Sisters of the Holy Cross Society have launched a new Home-Training Programme for children with hearing and speech impediments.
Other programmes started by the Sisters include, Asha Deep Institute for children with hearing and speech impediments opened in 1996 in Patna. Asha Deep Institute works with Sense International India (SII) and Poorest Area Civil Society (PACS). Today it cares for 120 children with hearing and speech impediments of whom 32 are mentally disturbed. The children are in the care of sixteen specialised teachers and six of the teachers are preparing to treat the little patients in their own homes.
This is the second stage of the programme. The Sisters run three special Centres for education at Bihar-Bhojpur, Buxar and Nalanda.
Underlining their special service for mentally and physically sick children the sisters celebrate the 150th anniversary of their foundation with the motto “Serving the Sick is doing God’s Will”. (AP) (26/9/2006 Agenzia Fides; Righe:22; Parole:248)