For our annual Parish Lenten Project this year, we are proposing two separate projects – one of our missions in India, and one of our missions among the Wichi tribe in northern Argentina.
Our Passionist mission in Randham, in south-east India, is staffed by 3 Passionists who have been doing sterling work in lifting the people out of utter poverty. A major need is for education. They have begun work on a new 12 class-room building in the hope that money will come in to finish it. Each 22 x 20 ft classroom costs just under €4000 to build and equip.
In our mission among the Wichi people in Juarez, Formosa, in the Argentine, the greatest need is for medicines – TB and chagas are major problems, as also are extreme climatic conditions, and being constantly driven off their lands by large agri-businesses. Our missioners have been trying to build small multi-purpose halls in two different villages. They have been lying incomplete for over a year now because of lack of funds – less that €4000 in one case, and €500 in the other.
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Village children of Randham, India |
Children of Juarez, Formosa, Argentine |
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Fr.Chris Gibson,CP greeting kids at parochial school in Randham, Tamil Nadu, India |
Fr.Alphonso Nelson,CP, pastor at our very poor mission parish at Randham, addressing parish schoolchildren, Tamil Nadu, India
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For more images and to read more on Passionist Missions, please visit the following link:
http://www.passiochristi.org/Pxi2/index_e.htm
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