Dinasevanasabha was founded by
Mother Petra, a German Ursuline Nun in 1969, at Pattuvam, Kerala, India, with an
exclusive charism and mission for the poorest of the poor in the society. At the
time of the untimely death of our beloved foundress in 1976, the community had
already ventured into many areas of services for the liberation of the poor.
On 2 February 2003, the Holy See raised our Congregation to the status
with Pontifical Right. Our congregation has officially erected three provinces
and one vice province with effect from 1 June 2007 and DSS Amala Province is one
of the provinces of DSS Congregation in the state of Kerala.
Today, we
are a community with 540 sisters, extending our services to the poor in India
and abroad. We play an active role in the pastoral, social, health and human
resources development services of 34 dioceses of India. The main focus of our
services is always the remote villages where the poor do not have any access to
health services, educational and human development facilities and
possibilities.
Dinasevanasabha has been serving in the Malankara Catholic
Church since 1972 with the erection of Anandabhavan Convent at Kolithattu at the
request of the Bishop of Tiruvalla. The Superior Generals of DSS were ready and
willing to consider the requests of the Bishops to open the new convents of ours
in different Parishes of the Malankara Catholic Church. And hence we extended
our missionary activities to Bathery, S.Canara, Ettukuduka and Jellipara
respectively.
