More than 200 people have attended the opening of the Community and Human Resources Development Centre at Tala in Maharashtra’s Raigad district to mark the Divine Word Society’s 150 years of service. Archbishop John Rodrigues of Bombay led the thanksgiving Mass on June 18 at the Janseva Society Campus in Tala, some 115 km south of Mumbai, the capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The archbishop encouraged all present to remain steadfast in uplifting the marginalized with dignity and love. He described the new centre as a “sanctuary of transformation,” a space born from faith in action. The occasion also marked the Janseva Society’s 13 years of serviced to Katkari tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group in Maharashtra. The Archdiocese of Bombay in collaboration with the Indian Mumbai province of the Society of the Divine word made an agreement on June 1, 2012, to begin a mission station at Tala. It aimed to spread Christ’s mission in Tala Taluka. The society works among 22 Kathkari tribe hamlets and three shepherd group villages. It deals with illiteracy, alcoholism, child labour, bonded labour, issues of health and hygiene, lack of road and water facilities.
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