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COVID-19 Relief Work in St. Louis Friary, Palamaner

We friars Joy Valooran, Dominic C.J, Varghese Sebastian, Johnny Anthony and Jamesmon P.C. at St.Francis Friary, Kochi could start helping the people by making mask from 16th of March through a wide range of volunteers including our lay groups. Since complete lockdown, we reached cooked food packets to the most deserving living on streets and lone-elderly at homes, through an existing system of volunteers.

The Community members of St. Francis Friary in Kochin, realising the immediate need of usage of masks, launched into stitching them. We collected around 11 tailoring machines from homes and convents (to be returned later) and we also bought a cloth cutting machines, 3 tailoring machines and two layers of fabrics for masks. We were able to distribute more than 6,500 masks to Hospitals, Police department, Scavengers, Auto-drivers, Migrant workers, Fishermen, Patients and for the poor people. We also supplied more than 11,500 cut-pieces of mask materials to different groups for stitching in their own respective places. Now due to lockdown volunteers were unable to come to stitch the mask in our friary campus. Therefore, we are sending the stitching materials to their homes and get them stitched.

We distributed cooked food daily to the homeless living on streets & lone-elderly at homes, migrants, and beggars. In the coming days we want to reach people in need through providing provision kit. We are working towards this venture.

Despite of Government efforts, there are still hundreds of poor people struggling for their nourishment. Therefore, we realised the necessity of giving some basic raw food items (around 745 Kits) to the identified deserving people to sustain them for two weeks. After two weeks we have to give them another bundle of Kits. We are also providing reusable-masks to scavengers (500 masks) and families (1400 masks).

 

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FRIARS' BIRTHDAY (August)

Date

Name of the Friars

Events

Year

01

Richard D’ Silva

Balaswamy Gundiga

Entry

Birth

1952

1978

02

Portiuncula

Feast


03

Julius Arul Rayan

Birth

1974

04

+ Bernard Henrietta

Praveen Roshan Toppo

Ravi Bara

Home

Birth

Birth

1981

1982

1995

06

Benedict Gomes

Augustine Tirkey

Birth

Birth

1977

1989

08

+ Marianus Kadasani

T.S.Leo Max

Home

Birth

2004

1995

11

+ Clare of Assisi

+ Sanctes Molenkamp

Feast

Home


1990

14

Jesu Maharaja

Pasala Showri Raju

Birth

Birth

1975

1987

15

Arok Sundar Sebastian

Charles Bernard

Felix Gassam

Francis Kaviyil

Chinnappan M. Devaraj

Amaldas Belevendran

Bobby V.T.

Birth

Solemn Vows

Solemn Vows

Solemn Vows

Solemn Vows

Solemn Vows

Ordination

1951

1990

1990

1992

1992

1992

2000

18

Jamesmon P.C.

Ordination

2001

19

John Chrysostom

Ordination

1995

21

Vijay Amirtharaj A.

Birth

1979

22

Bhaskar Reddy

Birth

1973

23

Stephen Arun S.

Birth

1994

25

King Louis IX

Arun Devasia Nattalil

Akshay Showry Raj

Feast

Birth

Birth


1991

1994

27

Joseph Kishan

Birth

1995

28

Fidelis D’ Lima

Birth

1939

30

Arockia Raj R.

Birth

1959

31

+ Christopher Coelho

Home

2007