Donation from Mission Fund Mosta

I am very grateful to the Mission Fund Mosta for sending me €2,000 to help me in providing assistance in the form of scholarships for tertiary education to young girls in this rural area of Santal Parganas, in the state of Jharkhand, north of Kolkata. We Jesuits have established St Xavier’s College at Maharo, near the District capital Dumka, affiliated to SidoKanhu Murmu University in the same capital.

Since the aim of the University College is to encourage girls in this rural area to pursue a tertiary education, in 2013 – with the generous help of the Mission Fund, Mosta, we built a two storey hostel for girls, managed by the Ursuline Sisters, to enable them to enroll in our University College and pursue their dreams of advancement in life. Since the girls are from small, land-owning farmers, many of them require a scholarship to enable them to pursue a tertiary education and I am grateful for the sum of €2,000 given to me for this purpose.

On 17 December, St Xavier’s College celebrated its 5th Annual Day. Among the performers, both academically in their studies and artistically in the dances performed on the occasion, it was gratifying to see a number of santal girls of the hostel, who received a scholarship. I also thank the Mission Fund for sending me € 500 for Mass Intentions for the benefactors, living and dead, and staff. I assure them of my prayers and sacrifices.

I ask the public in general to send used stamps and donations to the Mission Fund Mosta. Donations may be made online or by direct bank transfer to one of the following accounts: HSBC (Account No: 061 197 448 050), BOV (Account No: 163 007 980 19), APS (Account No: 200 008 207 62) or BANIF (Account No: 000 879 631 01). More information can be accessed from the website: www.missionfund.org.mt Fr. Paul Aquilina SJ