page_title: Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore
section_title: Thevenet Centre
hierarchical_section_title: Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore / Thevenet Centre
caption_attribution_description: English: 10 year anniversary commemorative sticker
context_page_description: The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore, commonly referred to as "Convent", is a girls-only school situated in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded on 17 November 1876 by Religious of Jesus and Mary, a congregation founded by Saint Claudine Thevenet, and received official recognition in 1881. It educates over 2,300 girls aged between 4 and 18 years starting from preschool to Grade 11.
context_section_description: The Thevenet Centre for special children was opened on the 3rd of February 2000. At the opening ceremony Sister Marie Cecile Osborne RJM threw light on the reasons for opening the centre. She said:
  "In the summer of 1998, one of 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 idea of starting Thevenet Centre and for this we thank her.
  The Sisters of Jesus and Mary are proud to say that they have been educating the girls of Lahore since 1876, 135 years now. It seemed only right then, that at the dawn of the new millennium they should venture forth into a new branch of education and provide for children, not with disabilities, but with different abilities."
caption: Thevenet Centre commemorative sticker
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