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Sister Cyril Mooney, an Irish sister who changed education for impoverished children throughout India has died at age 86. | Photo credit: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAn Irish nun who received India’s highest civil award, the Padma Shri, for her work in education, has passed away at the age of 86.
In 1956, she left Ireland and started her journey by ship to Kolkata . In 1979, she finished her doctoral degree in zoology and became the principal of Loreto Day School at Sealdah, Kolkata. Under the program, 700 children who attend the school pay fees, and those fees provide free schooling for 700 other children who cannot afford to pay.
Mooney and her team trained more than 7,000 teachers who were able to bring primary education to over 350,000 children with no access to education.
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