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COVID-19 REMINDS US WE ARE A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

All these days we thought globalization makes us global people. This pandemic taught us, we become global people when we are able to live as one humanity or one community both at local and global level. COVID -19 has removed barriers of 'we and they’, ‘here and there’, and stirred up the value of belongingness amongst us. It has demonstrated that COVID - 19 sees our globe as one single interdependent community. We have realized COVID-19 is the problem of ‘our human community.’

Jesus said, “Father, as you and I are one. They may be also one" (Jn 17:22). Let us be one and fight against this virus. Collective action is the only way to fight against this virus. The WHO’s document “Mental health considerations during COVID-19 Outbreak” urges us to “be empathetic to those who got affected’, and to “protect yourself and be supportive to others”. The pandemic changes our outlook towards others in our local and global community. It forces us to be compassionate, and ‘protect people we know, but also people we do not know or even, possibly, care about’ including elders, economically weak, those marginalized in and around us, those migrants who can’t travel back, and all those who go hungry. As global citizens, this is the moment that all of us should do what we can to help each other, locally and globally.

I am grateful to everyone who is directly working to combat this virus and crisis situation in the world. It motivates me to ensure we as a society do what we can to help right now through generating funds and help those who are in and around our communities. I thank all the friars who are taking risk and reaching out to the poor and the needy in various ways. I am grateful to all of you for your cooperation in bringing out this ‘Mission Bulletin’ by sending the reports and beautiful pictures in time.

I express my sincere thanks to all the funding agencies, friars who are working abroad, and all our local and global benefactors for your financial and prayerful contribution to reach out to the needy. Let every one of us continue to contribute to fight against the crisis situation in whatever ways possible. “Protect yourself and be supportive to others.”

May God bless all our efforts.

 Br. Rajasekhar Gopu

Project Secretary

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