La Salle for Women's Rights | #InternationalWomensDay2021
Through the implementation of vocational training, WASH and life skills courses, we promote the social and economic empowerment of women and girls entrusted in our care. We support women's full and effective participation in public life, business world, and in leadership positions.
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La Salle for Women's Rights | #InternationalWomensDay2021
We work every day to promote access for and retention of girls and women at all levels of education, throughout the world. Investing in girls’ education transforms communities, countries and the entire world. Girls who receive an education are less likely to be victims of child/adolescent-marriages and more likely to lead healthy, productive lives. They earn higher incomes, participate in the decisions that most affect them, and build better futures for themselves and their communities.
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La Salle for Women's Rights | #InternationalWomensDay2021
In La Salle, we can count on more than 60,000 women fostering the Lasallian educational mission worldwide. This figure corresponds to the 58.2 percent of our educational and administrative personnel, in other words, over half of the energy, talents and passion that move our institutions and programs forward, benefitting over a million people everyday
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La Salle for Women's Rights | #InternationalWomensDay2021
Today, legal restrictions have kept 2.7 billion women from accessing the same job as men. Less than 25 per cent of parliamentarians were women, as of 2019. One in three women experience gender-based violence, still. [United Nations]
As La Salle, we refuse all form of discrimination against women, and gender-related violence. We are committed to promote equal opportunities for women and men all over the world.
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On Thursday February 25th two
videoconferences took place in relation to the Commitments of Association
organised by the Secretariat of Association. In these meetings we heard a brief
testimony of eight Lasallians.
In the PDF file
that accompanies
this message you can identify them and listen to their testimony in the
original language or in its translation into the other official languages. Each
video lasts between four and six minutes.
From the Secretariat of Association we would like to thank all those who participated,
for their involvement, for such interesting vocational expressions.
The link to share the reflection started that day is still open, if you would
like to tell us what has helped you in your journey of Association and
commitment, and what structures you consider necessary in the future to help
Lasallians in their journey of Association and commitment, do not hesitate to
complete the form. https://tinyurl.com/y9kfybo4
Live Jesus in our hearts!
To view videos download the PDF using the following link:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a8a964a2-352a-497a-8a57-c00c669d0a98
The ASSEDIL Gathering will take place on March 25th and 26th this year from 9.30am to 11am GMT (10.30am to Noon in Malta) as a way of supporting each other in these difficult times. The theme of this online meeting will be: ‘You are part of the Miracle’. This meeting will span two half days, allowing for the sharing of experiences of solidarity during the pandemic and for a celebratory cross-border get-together. We will keep you updated with details about the programme but here we simply wanted to give you a brief outline of the content of the gathering. This will include:
• How are we experiencing the pandemic - using videos from different Districts illustrating their responses.
• What are our students saying? We will ask them to briefly to speak about their hopes for post-COVID-19, illustrating one thing that they are looking forward to.
• We will have a short presentation from a psychologist speaking about the impact of COVID 19 on young people.
• We will finish with a short Lasallian celebration, using music and other material from the countries of the Region, as a means of encouragement and support.
Here you have the link for registration: https://forms.gle/XrcP5XJupXqwEBrx6
More details of the programme will follow closer to the time.
Students from De La Salle College Malta Junior School have been doing their bit to help protect our environment by taking part in the EkoSkola programme.
This Eco-Schools project aims at mobilising the whole school to empower students to adopt an active role in environmental decision-making and action in their school and in their community. Schools that have successfully achieved this goal are awarded a Green Flag – a prestigious eco-label testifying the school’s commitment to fostering sustainable lifestyles.
The programme was launched in 1994 by the Foundation for
Environmental Education (FEE) and now includes over 43,000 schools distributed
around the world.
The school’s EkoSkola members undertook the Xrobb I-Ghagin Nature Park Boundary
Wall Project.
The initiative began on Wednesday January 27th when the students collected 50, one litre empty cartons, rinsed them and thanks to Ms Claudine, prepared the milk cartons.
These cartons were placed in the small garden and a mixture of soil and compost was used to plant seeds.
This ongoing project will be tended to by the students and teachers over the coming weeks and months.
Students at St Simon Stock Catholic School are being encouraged to take part in the Lasallian Awards initiative which has recently been introduced at the school.
The Lasallian Awards work similarly to that of the Duke of Edinburgh Award and Faith in Action Awards which the school organises for older year groups. Students will be asked to complete one activity from each Core Principle to receive the Bronze Award. Students can choose whichever activities they would like to do but they must do one from every category.
The activities list (see below) can all be completed at home following government guidelines. If students have an idea for their own category, they can e-mail chaplain Lauren Bassett to get confirmation that it will count.
Once they have completed an activity they will need to take a picture of it or do a write up on it to use as evidence. Only once they have completed all five activities must they put together all their evidence into one document and attach it on to Microsoft Teams in their Reflection Teams.
Once the information has been received by Ms Bassett the student will receive a badge and their name will go into a prize draw for a £20 Amazon Voucher. Then, students will then get the opportunity to go for the Silver Award (three activities from each category) and Gold Award (five activities from each category).
Stay tuned for more information - in the lead up to this year’s Founders Day/Week (May 10-14, 2021) the District will be adapting and extending this model of Lasallian Awards to all schools in the District. More information on how to participate and the prizes available will be launched in April 2021.
The members of a number of our committees have been finalised over the past few weeks, with the updated lists as follows:
District MEL Council
- Br. Laurence Hughes - Brother Visitor
- Br. Ben Hanlon - Brother Visitor's Delegate for Mission
- Brian Halpin - MEL Committee, Ireland
- Emma Biggins - MEL Committee, GB
- Mariella Vella - MEL Committee, Malta
- Dr. Aideen Cassidy - District Representative on the ASSEDIL Council
- Stephen Cachia - Director of Educational Mission, La Salle Malta
- Brendan Wall
- Andrew Rannard
- Joe Gilson - Director of Mission
MEL Committee Ireland
- Br. Stephen Deignan
- Brian Halpin (Chair)
- Jason Poole (Secretary)
- Br. Patrick Collier
- Anna Baird
- Martin Brennan
- Br. Martin Curran
- Marie Fitzpatrick
- Br. Damien Kellegher
- Br. Francis Manning
- Mary McDonagh
- Br. Kevin McEvoy
- Br. Finbarr Murphy
- Edel Nolan
- Joe Twomey
- Siobhan Wyatt
MEL Committee Great Britain
- Emma Biggins - Chair
- Faith Wheat
- Fran Walsh
- Andrew Bridson
- Sally Bennett
- Joanne Millea
- David Garrido
- Laura Young
- Mike Bennett
MEL Committee Malta
- Stephen Cachia (Chair)
- Mariella Vella
- Manuel Cilia
- Isabel Zahra
- Jacqueline Farrugia
- Br. Austin Gili
- Chris Kenely
District Young Lasallian Council
- Siân Thomas – District Representative on the RELEM Young Lasallian Council (Chair)
- Joanne Millea – St Helens: De La Salle School
- Cian Ó Náraigh – Dundalk: De La Salle College
- Keely Xuereb – De La Salle College Malta
- Ishmael Cocker – Stella Maris College Malta
- Jason Poole - Beneavin De La Salle College: Dublin, Ireland
- Theo Arthur - St Joseph's College: Beulah Hill, London
- Isobelle Cording - St Cassian's Residential Centre: Kintbury, UK
District Vocations Team
- Brother Martin Curran, FSC
- Heather Ruple Gilson
- Joanne Millea
- Yvonne Joye
- Brother Saviour Gatt, FSC
- Audrey Borg
- David McArdle
