Juliana D'Souza

Mangaluru, Nov 20: Sr Zeena D'Souza was recently re-appointed provincial superior of SRA Mangalore Province.

Sr Zeena D’Souza SRA, a pleasant, soft spoken, dynamic person, is the 4th child of Abraham Dsouza and Alice D'Souza, of Kudripadav, Niddodi. She comes from an exemplary Konkani Catholic background.

She joined the SRA congregation in 1982. She took her first vows in December 1988, and her training included service at Sandesha, regional communication centre, Mangaluru earning a degree in Arts. Her Final Profession on December 8, 1995 was a red letter day for her.

She went on to pursue her degree in Theology at Jnana Deep Vidyapeet, Pune (1997-2001) and later accomplished a masters in spirituality and communication at Gregorian University, Rome in 2006.

When she returned to India, she served as a full fledged trainer in the SRA religious institute. She was involved in the administration of the Province and in 2011, she was elected as its head.

She is well-known for her hard work, dedication and religious zeal, along with her band of sisters, aims to bring about needed development to the people of this area, liberating them from bondages of poverty, injustice and many kinds of oppression, particularly among marginalized women and children.

Education, developmental work, healing and health ministry and in many more ways, the sisters reach out to the people irrespective of caste, creed and race enthusing every SRA nun of Mangalore province.

Sr Zeena graciously marked her silver jubilee (25 years) of religious profession on December 9, 2013, with felicitations from many world wide.

Sr Zeena D’Souza SRA has been the Provincial, the head of the Mangalore SRA province since January 25, 2011.

The sisters she leads offer their services mainly in medical, educational, socio-pastoral fields, more specifically homes for aged, orphanages, boarding houses, geriatric care, and palliative care, with its social action rapidly expanding and widely recognised by all levels of people.