About The Founder

Good Shepherd Sisters

St Michael’s Home, a Registered Society, was founded in 1922, by the Good Shepherd Sisters, to create a space for society’s unwanted: abandoned babies and unwed mothers. Starting out with just an adoption centre, St Michael’s Home has expanded its services to offer a Holistic Health Centre on campus, and has implemented a slum Outreach programme, working in 12 Balwadis in Varthur and Uttarahalli.
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Summary

St. Michael's Home is located in Bangalore, India. Among other things, it is a home for unwed mothers, a children's home, a vocational school for women, and a day camp for children. They take in women who need a place to live while pregnant. The Sisters provide housing, food, counseling, care, comfort, and total confidentiality. The mothers receive excellent pre-natal care and if needed, training in sewing and embroidery so that they can support themselves when they leave. Women from the villages and slums are also given such training, and their children cared for while they learn. The tablecloths, pillow covers, and placemats produced by the vocational program are beautiful, and we brought home many of them for use in our own home and as gifts. The sisters are active in the NGO community nd have spoken at the United Nations in New York.


The mothers stay to breast-feed their babies for eight weeks after the birth, giving their babies an excellent physical and emotional start in life. St. Michael's nursery has a capacity of approximately twenty infants. They take incredibly good care of the babies until they can arrange for people to take them into their families. Show More

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