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Sealdah and the outreach of Sister Cyril Mooney
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The final chapter of the book settles upon the work of Sister Cyril Mooney and her community at her Loreto school in Sealdah after her appointment in 1979 and until her retirement in 2012. Even in the early 1980s the school contained colonial remnants. Yet Cyril’s work was a microcosm of inclusive education and largely effective outreach that moved well beyond convent walls. It connected with, and became enmeshed within, secular NGOs, where she drove their philanthropy to better target educational programs for poorer Indians. Two decades before India’s Right to Education Act of 2009 (which obliges middle-class private schools to have an enrolment of at least 25 per cent socially disadvantaged Indians), middle-class children and their parents in Cyril’s school were recruited by her to reach poverty on Calcutta’s streets. The chapter details Cyril’s ground-up models of outreach that were later emulated by government, as well as by some of Calcutta’s fifty other significant education NGOs.

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