Media Release
Mangaluru, Jun 24: Young Catholic Students (YCS/YSM) in the diocese of Mangaluru organised training for the new animators at Sandesha, Bajjodi on Sunday, June 24.
The training began with prayer and inauguration, followed by welcome by the diocesan president Ashvia Anna Lasrado. The inauguration was done creatively by keeping eggs in the salt water in a vessel meaning animators need to relate with students gently as one holds an egg neither holding it too hard so as to smash nor too loose so as to fall and break.
Chief guest Fr Francis Almeida, director of Sandesha, addressed the animators and called to be responsible n dignified as per their position as animators.
Resource person of the day Francis D’Cunha Mulki elaborated the basics of YCS. Fr Rupesh Madtha, diocesan director, spoke on the role of animators in the lives of teenagers. Diocesan coordinator Mervin Vas along with diocesan secretary Jean Lobo and joint secretary Einstein Pinto conducted the ice breakers. After the Holy Mass certificates were presented to the new animators. Thirty participants took part in this annual training.
To date there are 158 YCS/ YSM units in the diocese with 200 plus animators and around 5,000 members all over the diocese.