Archdiocesan Spoken English Course 2022

 

Archdiocesan English Course 2022

 Inauguration of Archdiocesan Spoken English Course

Long awaited Archdiocesan Spoken English Course began on Easter Sunday 17^th April 2022 at Jeevan Vikas Kendra, Archdiocesan Pastoral Centre at Pethapur in Gandhinagar. The students appeared for the Entrance Test at the very outset. Then different groups were formed to ease the learning according to their abilities. On 18^th April 2022, His Grace Archbishop Thomas Macwan, Metropolitan Archbishop of Gandhinagar presided over the inaugural Eucharist by lighting the Easter Candle and encouraged the students to learn English and our Faith. 78 students who have completed 10^th and 12^th standard began to speak in English. Archdiocese is grateful to Frs. Deepak Toppo, Royden Patil, Arul Britto, Xavier James, Brs. Donald Remi, Ankur Patel, Rakesh and SSSS staff for making the students comfortable in learning English. All Glory to God!

SSSS visits

 SSSS monitoring visits

SSSS Director and the staff on 6^th April 2022, went to Mandali and Mehsana on monitoring visit. They were very glad to meet the women who were busy with learning tailoring and beautician skills at Mandali. Archdiocese of Gandhinagar is grateful to Frs. Vela & Cosmos for their whole hearted support in reaching out to the women of Mandali. Thereafter, the team visited Mehsana and met the women who were so involved in learning beautician skill to stand on their own feet. We are grateful to Sr. Nirmala. SSSS, Archdiocese of Gandhinagar is grateful to Missio, Austria for helping with finance.

SSSS monitoring visit of tailoring and beautician courses at Mandali and Mehsana.

 

SSSS Community Educators' training programme

 

SSSS Community Educators

 Community Educators’ training programme

SSSS Community Educators from various parishes gathered together for a health training at Jeevan Vikas Kendra, Pethapur, Gandhinagar from 4^th to 5^th April 2022. Sharmila and Anil enlightened them with various health topics and hand books were given to each Community Educator, which were prepared by SSSS staff.  These will be very helpful to the women when they are in the fileld. Nitin and Hemangini briefed the Community Educators with various government schemes and how to obtain those schemes from respective block and district. On the last day, each one had prepared a health topic and presented to the gathering which made a great difference in their self-confidence.