In 1950 we opened Notre Dame Academy (an English medium school, from Kindergarten through Standard 11), preparing girls to take the Cambridge Overseas Examination, which is now the Indian School Certificate Exam. The Sisters also administered and taught in St. Joseph Parish Hindi Medium School. Since that time, our sisters have opened many Hindi and English medium schools in different States of India in response to requests. We have established over 30 mission stations in both North and South of India. Our sisters also began their medical work in 1949, opening a small dispensary in Jamalpur. Since then, the sisters have been trained as doctors and nurses to carry on medical work in our Health Centres.
In 1992, three Indian sisters were sent from Patna to start a mission in Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa. The three pioneers initially taught and administered a diocesan boarding school (Ngarenaro) for girls. Over the years 15 more Indian Sisters have served in East Africa. A formation house for African young women was built at Njiro, Arusha in 2001. The Mission in Tanzania and Kenya was constituted into a delegation under the Assumption Province on May 10, 2009, with the name “Holy Spirit Province Delegation” The total number of houses in the Holy Spirit Delegation were eight: 1)St. Joseph’s, Ngarenaro, Arusha; 2)Formation House, Njiro;3) Zinduka, Njiro; 4)Don Bosco, Shinyanga; 5)Mount Sinai, mlolongo, Nairobi, Kenya;6)Syokimau Nairobi; 7)Simanjiro, Tanzania and 8)Kiomboi, Tanzania. In 2015 the two houses in Uganda under the U.S. Provinces, were amalgamated with the houses in Tanzania and Kenya and brought directly under the Generalate as “Holy Spirit General Delegation.” Another major change was that the Indian Missionary Sisters have been transferred back to India most of them returning between 2021 and 2022.