On 15th August 2017, we the sisters and the boarders of Jag Prakash Kanya Chatralay, Pansora began our Marian month to honour Our Blessed Mother. The theme for the month was ‘Mary is the mother of our family’. The statue of Our Blessed Mother was well decorated. We began this month with a prayer service. During this month we animated various activities with our boarders like composing songs on Mary,
On 23rd September along with the village children who belong to six diffenrt villages, we had the celebration of Navartri with the village tuitions children of six villages. They arrived with full of gusto to play the Garba. Garba is one of the popular festivals in Gujarat, where women dance to their hearts’ content. We had the Garba competitions according to their villages and at the end played the Garba
On Friday, the 8th of September, Pushpanjali, Dakor Friday celebrated the Girl Child day. Nearly 340 adolescent girls from 10 villages participated in this ‘Kishori mela’. Sr. Sunita Shah brought 30 girls from Pansora. We were happy to have the TDO of the Thasara Taluka, Arjunsingh Kant news reporter, Kantilal Christian, Sr. Pratiksha, Miss. Salmaben (Sarpanch of Kalsar village), Chaganbhai Christian (who provided us with breakfast) as our Guest of
On 23rd September 2017 a motivation seminar was conducted for the ITI students and their parents. The seminar began at 10.00 am with a short prayer. Sr. Urvashi Macwana welcomed the guests, parents and students for the seminar and introduced the animator Fr. Dinesh Vasava SDB from Kapadvanj, Gujarat. Through videos and real life examples, he explained to those gathered the need to be motivated and that all need to
‘Thank you Mother Mary’, voiced out the community of Uttan along with Anmol children. The closing of the Marian month brought us all together to thank our Blessed Mother for the blessings we received from her everyday and especially during this month where we came to know and love her a little more. This month was filled with different activities for the children like singing, dancing, essay writing, poetry, rosary
On 23rd September 2017 a free health camp was held for the neighbouring villages of Ujini Pimplegaon, successfully organized jointly by the Salesian Co-operators and SHGs of Laura Vicuna Niwas –Ahmednagar, under the guidance of Sr. Collette Gonsalves, Co-ordinator of the two Sectors. After a short prayer moment and a grand opening ceremony at 9.30 am, the resource persons were introduced and felicitated. Expert doctors from renowned hospitals including V.K.
‘A family united in love’ was the theme of our community gratitude day which was on 17th September 2017 at Auxilium – Ahmednagar .All the different sectors of the house expressed their deep love and gratitude towards the animator, Sr. Teresa Plathara by offering up prayers and through songs, skits, cards and dances. The sisters, boarders, ACC students, workers and women from the SHG – all got together as one
The AYM members visited the Home for the aged Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, Aldona. They were eager to go as most of them were going for the first time and also many of the inmates were from Aldona, Carona. They carried with them some eatables to offer them. It was something different as they went in groups or two and even individual to meet the inmates in their
On 14th September 2017, the students of std. X and the catholic students from the secondary section were accompanied by Sr. Shiny Alphonse, the headmistress and the three teachers. As an annual event they went to Mount Mary’s Church Bandra for a pilgrimage along with other ABE schools of Mumbai. The students first assembled at Apostolic Carmel High School, Bandra and after a break of 10 minutes headed in procession
As part of the school outreach programme our two sisters, two students and a teacher headed towards Sindhoni at the early hours of 13th Sept. 2017. It was a kind gesture of our Provincial who provided us with a vehicle which carried a load of things comprising of pulses, grains, books, soaps, eatables and clothes for the children of the place. These things were brought by our students during the
