News: Rony Pinto
Mangalore, Apr 16: St Lawrence Church, Bondel conducted a summer camp for the Catholic Children of the parish from April 11 to 13.
The camp was inaugurated by the assistant parish priest Fr Ronald Pinto along with vice- president Rudolf Pinto and Monica Pinto, St Lawrence English medium headmistress and Mary Miranda, St Lawrence Kannada medium headmistress.
The children were given various teaching about faith, health and mass media. The resource persons were Fr Ronald Pinto, Sr Marina D’Cunha, Sr Linet Maria, Sr Jenitha and bro Jeevan Lobo. Dr Lolita D’Souza and Savitha Pereira gave a talk on health and mass media.
Children were divided into six groups and lots of group activities were conducted to encourage children. On Wednesday, a short programme was presented by every group. At the concluding programme the winning groups were honoured.
An outing to the Tannirbavi beach which was the part of the camp was enjoyed by all. The vice president Rudolf Pinto thanked all the resource persons specially Fr Antony Serrao, Fr Ronald Pinto, Sr Marina D’Cunha, Sr Linet Maria, Sr Jenitha, Bro Jeevan Lobo, Helen Pinto and Loana Sunith Alvares.
As many as150 children attended the camp and benefited from it.