THEVENET CENTRE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION

The Thevenet Centre for Special Education was opened in the premises of Convent of Jesus & Mary Lahore, on 3rd February 2000. On the occasion Sister Provincial; Sister Marie Cecile Osbourne RJM threw light on the reasons for opening the centre. Extracts from her speech read thus;

“In the summer of 1998 one our parents, Mrs. Nari Suleiman, who has a son with special needs, expressed the desire to Sr. Pilar that her child attend our school somehow, somewhere. At that stage we had no provision as such for children with special needs, but it was her request that gave birth to the ida of starting Thevenet Centre, and for this we thank her”.

The Sister of Jesus & Mary are proud to say that they have been educating the girls of Lahore since 1876, 124 years now. It seemed only right then, that at the dawn of a new millennium they should venture forth into a new branch of education and provide for children, not with disabilities, but with different abilities”.

The aim of the centre is to provide services that will enable the children with special needs to realize their fullest potential and live the most independent lives possible.

The centre was named after the foundress of the Religious of Jesus & Mary; Saint Claudine Thevenet who said; “Let us so form these children that they may be regarded as a blessing in every household they enter”.