Following successful functions in Melbourne with a pre-footy brunch and Sydney cocktails at St Joseph’s College Main Parlour, the team moved further south in June and then back to base.
In Adelaide at a dusk function at McAteer Function Room at Sacred Heart College, Michael Coleman from the AMS Team outlined the recent growth patterns at AMS and profiled some of our key projects such as the first Marist School in Bangladesh and our partnership with a local Timorese NGO, “Katilosa”, working with young people with disabilities. New AMS board member Jim Whiting hosted the occasion and young Marists were strongly represented and served food and drinks.
In Brisbane AMS has established a Founder’s Day celebration at the Marist Centre for our principal Catholic charities, funding partners and AMS board and committee members. After Eucharist in the Oratory at the centre the guests enjoyed a buffet lunch on the deck. The Chairman of the AMS board, Peter Sheehan in welcoming people noted “the AMS growth to support young people at risk of lacking education access in Asia and the Pacific Island is a result of all assembled”.
At all functions the AMS End of the Financial Year Appeal was launched. It focuses on “Katilosa” and the Bangladesh school at the Sydney function.