Inge Jansen (missionary)
Sister Inge Jansen (* 11 March 1935 in Emmerich ) is a German nun of the Medical Mission Sisters (Medical Mission Sisters, MMS).
Life
Jansen was the second of six children to a merchant family. Her parents ran a bicycle and sewing machine shop on Emmericher Kaßstrasse. After finishing school, she completed a commercial apprenticeship in her parents' company. After a visit from two Dutch medical missionaries who had reported on their missionary work in Africa in the parish of St. Aldegundis , she decided to join the order. Her father did not give her permission to do so before she was of legal age.
Since there was no house of the order in Germany yet, she went to the mother house of the congregation of sisters in Great Britain in January 1957 . After the introductory period, she took her first vows in February 1960 . With the establishment of a new branch of the Mission Medical Sisters in Essen , she returned to Germany to support the development. This was followed by training as a nurse.
In January 1968 she went to Uganda for eight months in order to gain practical experience in an order-owned hospital for the planned construction of a hospital in Attat (Gurage region, southern province , Ethiopia ).
In the autumn of 1968 Sr. Inge traveled to Addis Ababa with a German and two Indian sisters and learned Amharic there . From 1969 she drove the construction of the hospital in Attat, for which an empty school building was converted. With a growing number of patients and more local nursing staff, she switched to coordinating the financial management of the hospital in the 1980s, which had 170 Ethiopian employees in 2012 and a catchment area of over 500,000 people with 120 beds.
Honors
- 2009: Papal Order of Honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
- 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Portrait at the Medical Mission Sisters
- Sister Inge Jansen Medical Mission Sisters (English)
- Sister Inge Jansen received high honors from Lokalkompass Emmerich, 23 August 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Behrendt: Journey home with lamps in her luggage , Neue Rhein Zeitung , Emmerich edition, July 30, 2009
- ^ Awarding of the medal to Sister Inge ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), German Embassy Addis Ababa, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jansen, Inge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nun of the Medical Missionary Sisters (MMS) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein ) |