TV marathon in aid of missions

The Mission Fund will hold a fund-raising marathon at the Catholic Institute on Saturday, Mission Fund Day, between 1.30 p.m. and 11 p.m.

The event will be transmitted live on television. Leading singers and dancers will participate and sponsors' gifts will be drawn during the event.

Donations can be offered by phone on 5004 9623 for Lm3; 5004 9625 for Lm5; 5004 9620 for Lm10; and 5061 8065 (blank SMS) for Lm2. One can also donate through HSBC account number 061 - 197448.

Every year the Mission Fund tries to distribute the sum of at least Lm500 to each and every Maltese and Gozitan missionary in Africa, Asia and in Latin America. Last year Lm67,000 was distributed.

In August, 28 lay Mission Fund missionaries, accompanied by a spiritual director, will carry out voluntary work in Perù.

The project Perù 2005 - Qalb Wahda includes the building of an extension to the school run by Fr George Scerri in Aplao, together with the building of two small houses for homeless families.

A container full of donated tools, foodstuffs and medicines is already on its way.

The lay missionaries pay from their own pockets for the travelling and subsistence expenses but donations from the public for the project are needed.

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