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Cross-region meeting on
Volunteers at Kochi
KOCHI:
7th March 2007 -- The regions of
South Asia and East Asia-Oceania have been represented by some 40 participants
at a meeting on Voluntary Service held in Kochi, Kerala (India), from 3rd - 6th
March. The Departments of the Missions and Youth Ministry from Rome have
been represented by Fr Francis Alencherry, Missions Councillor, Fr Dominic
Sequeira and Fr Jose Luis Anguiano from the Youth Ministry Department, both of
whom have stood in for Fr Antonio Domenech who is battling serious ill health at
the moment.
Participants at the meeting have been tackling
an updated document on voluntary service, a phenomenon which has grown
considerably in recent years as a Salesian proposal to young adults in
particular, and a fruit of Salesian Youth Ministry. The aim, based on a thorough
study of the document, is to arrive at a concrete plan for voluntary service at
province level for the 13 provinces represented at the
meeting.
From the EAO Region there are three
representatives from each of the Philippines North, Thailand and Korea provinces
- that is a total of nine Salesians from EAO. The remainder of the participants
are from South Asia and more particularly from India
itself.
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