Guests from Czech Republic

Our Czech friends...

It was our privilege to welcome Rev. Fr. Vojtech Elias, the President of LIKVIDACE LEPRY-TB and the Director of the Caritas Prague, Mr. Lubomir Hajas and 3 students- Josef Sveda, Pavel Pelikan and Zdislava Ferbyova from the beautiful city of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. 

They were in India to be present at the blessing and inauguration on December 15, 2012 of the orphanage in Bhilai Pahari for the children of the leprosy patients. They did visit St. Joseph’s Hospital, which they had sponsored to help build and met its Director, Fr. Reginald Fernades to find out about the progress made by the hospital. They were very impressed by the various initiatives taken by Fr. Fernandes and the doctors to reach out to the sick in need. 

The following day a short walk that they had taken through a slum where SKC is working has left lasting impressions in their minds of the impoverished state in which people are condemned to work and survive-the most vulnerable among being the children who are rag-pickers. They were happy to know from the animators about the community mobilization project, SKC is involved in.