Jeanne Devos

Jeanne Devos, ICM, (born 1935) is a Belgian religious sister and missionary who has spent her adult life serving the neediest people in India.

[1] As a teenager, Devos became introduced to the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, from which she felt called to serve God in India.

To follow this dream, in 1960 Devos entered the congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary which had been founded in India by 1897, and whose motherhouse was located in Heverlee at that time.

To combat this situation, in 1985 she founded the Domestic Workers National Movement, based in Mumbai, which organizes and advocates for women and girls.

[2] Devos participated with the CosmoGolem project, founded in 2010 by Koen Vanmechelen, which sponsors wooden statues of the Golem travel the world as a symbol of universal children’s rights.