New Hope Documentary, She was an inspirational woman who has devoted much of her life to helping the sick and poor in India. Maggie Sister OAM is a founder Trustee and Patron of “Friends of Australia and a Trustee of New Hope Trust India”. She lived and worked from the idyllic Broome Western Australia, but her life’s work takes her far from that setting. The grandmother of three was known as Maggie Sister, a name given to her by the people with whom she works in the Indian regions of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Maggie Sister’s involvement with the New Hope Rural Leprosy Trust began when she answered a lifelong call to travel to the country that had held so much mystery for her since childhood. Maggie Sister OAM was awed by the commitment and the work being done in isolated tribal areas by the New Hope Trust and their determination to train local Tribal people for fieldwork.
