AMS to launch our Christmas Appeal, 2018 School’s Campaign and a new mini documentary at our Christmas events taking place on Monday the 6th of November in Brisbane Sunday the 19th of November in Melbourne.
This year the Marist Centre Ashgrove, Brisbane and the Marist Centre Brunswick, Melbourne will play host to the 2017 AMS Christmas gatherings. The event will showcase AMS’s 2017 highlights, feature a new 4-minute mini documentary on Maway, a former gang leader turned teacher who lives in the Village of Wai-lilli, Timor-Leste as well as launch our 2017 Christmas Appeal and 2018 School Campaign.
We can now announce that Bangladesh will be the focus of this year’s Christmas Appeal. The workers in the Tea Gardens in Moulvibazar are one of the most deprived groups in Bangladesh, working in slave-like conditions and earning approximately 65 US cents a day. As indentured labourers they struggle to feed their children, let alone send them to school. Without a proper education, these children have little hope of finding alternative employment or breaking out of the poverty cycle. The Marist Brothers, in collaboration with the Diocese of Sylhet, have established a secondary school, offering free education (Grade 6-10) for 200 Tea Garden children.
Our appeal will support the efforts of the Brothers and St Marcellin School in Moulovibazer who are working to unlock opportunities for boys and girls from the tea plantation areas.
There is still time to register for the events by contacting Kristen McLean at Kristen.McLean@marists.org.au or phone (07) 3354 0600.