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Lucy Kurien is a Catholic nun and social worker who has dedicated her life to the cause of women's rights and empowerment. She is the founder of Maher, an organization that works to empower women and children in India.
Kurien was born in Kannur, India, on June 1, 1956. She was raised in a traditional Catholic family and attended a convent school. After completing her schooling, she joined the Congregation of the Sisters of the Little Flower of Bethany in 1977. She was ordained as a nun in 1983.
Kurien has dedicated her life to the cause of women's rights and empowerment. She founded Maher in 1997, an organization that works to empower women and children in India. Maher provides shelter, education, and vocational training to women and children in need. Kurien has also been involved in various campaigns to raise awareness about gender-based violence and to promote gender equality.
Kurien has received numerous awards for her work, including the Padma Shri Award in 2011, the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2015, and the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice in 2017.
Kurien is 64 years old. She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
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Social Worker, Women's rights activist, Catholic Nun |
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67 years old |
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Gemini |
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1 June, 1956 |
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1 June |
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Kolayad, Kannur, Kerala |
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India |
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Vacachalil Kurien (father)
Maria Kutty (mother) |
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Lucy Kurien Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Sister Lucy was absolutely devastated. For six years she struggled to come to terms with this heinous incident and how she couldn’t help. She realized that she had to do something for such women, and the result was the founding of Maher in 1997 in Pune, Maharashtra. She had to single-handedly start Maher as she did not receive backing from anyone. A friend, Fr. Francis D'Sa, helped her with advice and also helped her to find some donors to start a non-Christian organization. Maher is 100% secular. Since its inception, Maher has provided safe refuge and rehabilitation to women who were suffering from abuse, starvation, or neglect.
"We respect and love all religions. We never put down anyone’s religion, or uphold one religion to the exclusion of others. What we want is to believe and respect interfaith religion, inclusive of all faith traditions. In our community spiritual practices, we invoke our prayers to the Divine, rather than invoking any particular name or form of God to the exclusion of others."
In February 2017, Sister Lucy Kurien founded the Interfaith Association for Service to Humanity and Nature in Pune, India.
As of October 2017, this new community has 220 members from 8 countries.
In recognition of her services, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee awarded Sister Lucy Kurien with the Nari Shakti (women empowerment) award on 8 March 2016, in New Delhi. Other prominent awards include the DCCIA Award for Excellence in Social Service 2010 Global Women's Leadership Award 2011, the Paul Harris Fellow and the Vanitha Woman of the Year Award. Maher and Sister Lucy have featured several times on Indian television, including the popular show Satyamev Jayate hosted by actor Aamir Khan, and also on Vatican Radio. In 2015, Sister Lucy was invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative. In May 2017, Maher was granted a "special consultative status" with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN-ECOSOC).
Currently Maher has 46 short-stay and long-stay homes in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Kerala, and Maharashtra. In total they house over 893 street children, more than 357 destitute women (including 126 mentally ill women picked from the roadside) and 82 aged/mentally ill destitute men. In the short-term, Maher provides immediate shelter and interventions. In the long-term, the community focuses on upending India's systemic violence, exploitation, and segregation—of men and women, but also of rich and poor. Maher has touched the lives of 85,000+ beneficiaries as of 2017.
Sister Lucy established Maher to help destitute women regardless of caste, creed, or religion. It took almost seven years to get the needed support, but in 1997, the first Maher house opened in the small village of Vadhu Budruk, on the outskirts of Pune.
However, she was inspired by Mother Teresa's work and felt called to be closer to the people she wanted to help, directly touching the lives of the poor. In 1989 she joined the HOPE organization, founded by Sr Noilline Pinto of the Holy Cross Convent to help abused women. In 1991, while still working at the Hope, she had an encounter that would inspire her life's work. A pregnant woman came to her asking for shelter from her alcoholic husband who she thought would beat her. Sister Lucy did not know where to send her since the convent did not take laypeople. She had to send her away but promised to help the following day. That evening, the woman's husband doused her in alcohol and set her on fire. Both the woman and baby died.
