– without understanding what had happened to her." To combat this situation, in 1985 she founded the Domestic Workers National Movement, based in Mumbai, which organizes and advocates for women and girls. It now operates in 18 states of the nation, working in 28 different languages. 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. Honors In 2000 Devos was granted an honorary doctorate by the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2009 she was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown by King Albert II of Belgium. In 2012 the Ramkrishna Bajaj Memorial Global Award was given to her by the Priyadarshni Academy, a non-governmental organization engaged in social, educational and cultural pursuits. References 1935 births People from Flemish Brabant 20th-century Belgian Roman Catholic nuns Female Roman Catholic missionaries Belgian Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic activists Belgian expatriates in India Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Living people Roman Catholic missionaries in India 21st-century Belgian Roman Catholic nuns