Genesis of our Relationship with the Railaco Mission – See YouTube Video
Last week, Father Chris Jenkins SJ travelled to East Timor with Sue and Graeme Crabbe, and Michael Musgrave to visit our sister parish of Railaco situated in the mountains outside Dili.
Michael is writing this series of blogs in an attempt to outline once more the genesis of the relationship between St Canice’s and the Railaco Mission that started ten years ago.
Pile in – No time to waste. St Canice’s parishioners fund the Children’s Feeding Program in remote mountain villages outside DiliFather Chris SJ, Sue Crabbe, and Sister Rita SGS at our Railaco Secondary SchoolOnly in January 2013, electricity finally arrived to the Mission StationMichael joins the students who have come to collect their printed DiplomasVolunteer Joanna dispenses medicines from the back of the 4WD on the Mobile Medical Clinic in a remote mountain villageA meal is served for the children from the back of a 4WD in CatteraiA bore now provides water for the Mission Station and locals who come to fill their bottles – no longer just from a hose running from the nearby creek to a tank.
Michael is writing this series of blogs in an attempt to outline once more the genesis of the relationship between St Canice’s and the Railaco Mission that started ten years ago.