Identity Cards were issued to 250 Rag Pickers who are associated with Jan Vikas Society on 12th December 2016 by Honourable Mayor Ms. Malini Gaur, Indore Nagar Nigam in the presence of Commissioner, other officials from Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC), NGOs and Rag Pickers from different slums at Regional Park, Pipliyapala, Indore. The Identity Card is co-signed by Chief Medical Officer and Director of Janvikas Society.
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see” said John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States. Sarva Seva Sangh, Mumbai held BAL UTSAV on 10th November 2016 in Lotus Park, Gyan Ashram Campus, Andheri to cheer the children and to showcase their talents.
“The deep sense of appreciation and acknowledgment I get from the refugees I work with, keep me going and encourage me to continue.”
“So far all of us who work with the refugees and migrants are on salaries. Does this work costs us or we gain?”
Maharashtra reported the highest number of Domestic violence cases some time ago according to Times of India.
Neighborhood Children’s Parliament aims at the integral growth of children and their participation in the development of the society. Sarva Seva Sangh, Mumbai started Children’s Parliament in four slum communities last year.
Three years ago, the typhoon Haiyan, known as Super Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines and caused millones of death. How is the situation today?
Hace tres años, el tifón Haiyan, conocido en Filipinas como tifón Yolanda, devastó al Sudeste Asiático, principalmente en las Filipinas y causó la muerte de miles de personas. ¿Cuál es la situación hoy?
The training program was organized as part of STEP (Support to Training and Employment Program for Women) Project supported by Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development. The participants are from the nearby slums who are economically backward.
The Arnoldians’ Meet 2016, the gathering of the Divine Word Missionaries, was held at Divine Word Seminary, Pune from 18th to 20th of April 2016 organised by the province Justice and Peace and Integration of Creation committee. The meeting was inaugurated by Fr. Paul Vattathara, Provincial Superior. The theme of the Arnoldians’ Meet was ‘Celebrating Plurality’, in which, thirty four children from three schools and three social centres/missions in INM (India Mumbai) province participated along with teachers/staff.
June 20th is World Refugee Day, we think of those who have been uprooted from their homes and villages at an unprecedented scale, leaving some 60 million people displaced worldwide. This very sad situation invites to act. As a religious Congregation, we have in various countries structures that receive and attend to some of those, our brothers and sister’s refugees. One of the structure is in Austria, where we presenting the history which follows.
A Jakarta based NGO of Legal Institute Aid (LBH Jakarta) reported that 1.783 West Papuans were unlawfully arrested from 25 April to 2 May 2016. On 2 May 2016, thousands of West Papuans conducted peaceful demonstrations simultaneously in Jayapura, Sorong, Merauke, Wamena, Semarang, Makassar and Manokwari.
"The mission among the Gypsies is a perfect example of "putting the last first.”
The reforestation in Quingeo parish was initiated in 1998. Quingeo is one of the parishes whereby majority of the land is eroded, due to bad use of the soil, felling of trees, frequent fires, the disappearance of shrub-oaks due to the extension of agriculture and over-herding, abandonment of the fields due to immigration, etc. and above all the lack of orientation and consciousness of the population about respect and living in harmony with nature. Today the communities in the parish have a big percentage of eroded land that is useless for agriculture.
"We must break the stories of slavery in order to inspire a process of resilience -the capacity to overcome negative conditions with love."
On 22nd February 2001, two of us from Divine Word Missionaries went to Mother Theresa of Calcutta home to share our lives and mission. Mother Theresa of Calcutta homes were founded in 1988 by an SVD bishop, Jorge Novak, in Quilmes, South of the great Buenos Aires in Argentina.
The National March for Life was held in Washington DC, the capital of the United States of America on Thursday and Friday, 21-22 January 2016. It gathered people from everywhere in USA with an average of 75% of youth, most of whom were college and high school students.
Republic Day of our country was celebrated by Janvikas Society with Rag Pickers on 26th Janurary 2016. Six hundred Rag Pickers, some working at dumping ground and others from the neighboring slums gathered at Devguradia for the flag hoisting. Mr. Jhaganlal Ajnar (85) a waste picker himself was the chief guest of the program and hoisted the national flag. He has been working in the dumping ground for past 25 years.
About 150 mission scholars, practitioners and interested people gathered in Melbourne last October for the International Mission Symposium – an event aimed at celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s decree on Mission, Ad Gentes.
SVD commitment
Pope Francis calls Christians to take action for mother earth. “If the simple fact of being human moves people to care for the environment of which they are a part, Christians in their turn “realize that their responsibility within creation, and their duty towards nature and the Creator, are an essential part of their faith”. (LS 64)
Two parishes in the Region of Voraralber in Austria organized seminars on Climate Change. The symposium expressed support for Paris agreement for climate change last December.
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” Kids from KinderGardens in slums run by Sarva Seva Sangh, Mumbai gathered at St. Arnold’s Hall, Andheri (E) on Saturday 5th December 2015.
Children's Day was celebrated at Janvikas, Indore (INC-India) with the children from the Bridge Course Centers (Non-Formal Education centres for the working and drop out children) situated in different slums of Indore city. Around 150 children gathered for the celebration. Ms. Seema Virang, Councillor, Indore Municipal Corporation was the Chief Guest and Fr. Nicholas Martis, Rector, Catholic Ashram Palda was the Guest of Honour.
The Association of the “Inhabitants of Pequia” (ACMP) is celebrating a historic event because their complaints have found an audience in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH – Washington, EUA, on 20th October 2015).
By: P. Alpha Mazenga, svd
With the concern about the promotion of harmonious and integral development of the children, ORPER has made of the Holiday Camp, one of its most important activities of psychological accompaniment. Since 2010, it is organized by our department of the educational animation, in ORPER’s educational farm.
By:Daisuke Narui, SVD
There were so many refugees sitting on benches, floor, outside the station at the Vienna Central Station. Literally, the station was flooded with refugee people. At that time, most of refugees arriving at Vienna station do not remain in Austria, but proceed to Germany or other northern countries next morning. An SVD parish, Pfarre zum Göttlichen Wort, which is located near the station, has been helping those people and I could see a part of their activity on 14th September, 2015.
It was a memorable day in the lives of waste pickers who are working in the dumping ground as it was for the first time they got an opportunity to celebrate the Independence Day by hoisting the national flag, singing the national anthem and shouting patriotic slogans on top of their voice "Vande Mataram, Bharat Mata Ki Jay, Hum Sab Ek Hai. etc.,
