Mission Fund

Through your newspaper I would like to publicly thank Mission Fund and the friends who support them, for the financial help that they have been giving me and all Maltese missionaries over many years. And especially for thinking of us and the additional needs we are trying to meet during this COVID-19 pandemic that is causing hardship all over the world.

For the past 37 years I have been working on a voluntary basis in eastern India, mostly in tribal areas of the states of Jharkhand and Orissa for the rehabilitation and inclusion of disabled persons. I work with local organisations in a community-based approach, working with the local village communities for the identification of physical and attitudinal barriers that limit the development of disabled persons; we then together look for ways to reduce these barriers. My primary role is that of training the personnel.

The regular donations from Mission Fund have enabled us to employ and train a community rehabilitation worker who has contributed considerably to creating a favourable environment in villages and thus improving the quality of life of the disabled persons and their families in her area of operation. Disabled children attend school with their peers; disabled adolescents participate in village events and sports while families who have a disabled member with high dependency needs are helped in practical ways by the villagers. Generous people in Malta have contributed to make this possible and this is for us a stimulus and an inspiration.

I encourage you to continue to support Mission Fund so that we missionaries can continue to serve and contribute to the development of marginalised persons.

Donations to Mission Fund may be made online or by direct bank transfer to one of the following accounts: BOV (Account No: 163 007 980 22); APS (Account No: 200 008 207 62) and BANIF (Account No: 000 879 631 01). More information may be accessed from the website www.missionfund.org.mt