Support for missionaries' work (1)

Malta has always treasured the missionary vocation left to us by St Paul, as Pope Benedict XVI reminded us during his visit marking the 1,950th anniversary of Paul's providential shipwreck on our shores.

While some live out this mission in far-off lands, bringing God's love to those on the margins of society and restoring to them their downtrodden dignity, others here in Malta back up their efforts with prayer and financial support.

I have worked for the last 30 years in India, mostly in the field of community health and community-based rehabilitation and integration of children with disability, mostly tribal Santali children.

I am indebted to Mission Fund and all their friends for their support to me and their regular contributions for my work. This consists mainly of training local personnel as village level health workers and village level rehabilitation workers as well as taking children for medical and surgical treatment to specialised centres.

I wish to express my gratitude to all concerned. I encourage all people of goodwill to continue to support the efforts of Mission Fund by sending them used stamps and donations so they may continue to help the many Maltese missionaries working in Third World countries.

Donations can be made online or by direct bank transfer to one of the following accounts: HSBC (Account No. 061 197 448 050), BoV (163 007 980 19), APS (200 008207 62) or Banif (000 879 631 01). More information may be accessed from www.missionfund.org.mt.