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| Born | (1936-07-21)21 July 1936 Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland |
| Died | 24 June 2023(2023-06-24) (aged 86) |
| Other names | Sister M. Cyril Mooney Sister Mary Cyril |
| Known for | Nun Educationist |
Sister M. Cyril Mooney,IBVM (21 July 1936 – 24 June 2023) was anIndia-based Irish nun, educationist, educational innovator and 2007 winner of thePadma Shri Award, theGovernment of India's fourth-highest civilian honour.She received awards including recognition by UNESCO (1994) and the International Christian Stewardship Award in 2002 given by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.[1]
A native ofIreland, she grew up in Wolfe Tone Square, Bray, where she became a messenger for her mother handing out magazines for theHoly Ghost Fathers' Missions. She won a scholarship to Loreto Convent in Bray, and took orders in 1955 into theInstitute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
She had lived and worked in India since 1956, where she emerged as a nationwide leader in bringing quality education to urban and rural poor children. Under her Rainbow School Programme, "We mandated ourselves that we would take 25% of poor children every time we did admissions, and over time this moved up to 50%, Mooney said in an interview withThe Irish Times in 2015. "To help street children keep up their attendance, accommodation was provided on site in a model that has been copied by the West Bengal government."[2]
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Professed a Sister of theInstitute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1955), she arrived in India on 10 October 1956. She earned a PhD inZoology (Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh, India). From 1979, she was Principal of theLoreto Day School Sealdah.
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S. M. Cyril died in Kolkata on 24 June 2023 at the age of 86.[3]
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