2017 Archives

PLOTTING & PLANNING CONTINUES

By Friends of MithraMay 26, 2017Comments Disabled

The plotting and planning rolls on. Sr Mary Theodore was constantly thinking of new and better ways to sustain Mithra. And in her style, the Brisbane Friends of Mithra planning committee continues to plan fundraising events for Mithra. At last night’s...

HIGH COMMISSIONER VISITS MITHRA

Events, Guests, Mithra

HIGH COMMISSIONER VISITS MITHRA

By Friends of MithraMay 21, 2017Comments Disabled

On Friday 19th May, Mithra was pleased to welcome Ms Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India. Ms Sidhu’s visit to Mithra was to inaugurate the new Solar Energy project which was generously made possible by the Australian Government,...

COLOUR FILLED THE AIR

Events, Fundraising

Events Fundraising

COLOUR FILLED THE AIR

By Friends of MithraMay 17, 2017Comments Disabled

Colour has filled the air at St Rita’s College, with more than 400 students raising money to establish a computer laboratory for the intellectually and physically challenged children of Mithra in India. Inspired by the Hindu Holi Festival, also known...

NEW BUILDING UNDERWAY

Fundraising

NEW BUILDING UNDERWAY

By Friends of MithraApril 28, 2017Comments Disabled

At last the new dormitory for the girls at Mithra is under construction. It’s ironic that the very monsoonal rains, which caused so much heartache in Chennai when the torrential floods poured into Mithra in December 2015, failed to arrive in 2016. Chennai...

MITHRA TURNS 40

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MITHRA TURNS 40

By Friends of MithraApril 10, 2017Comments Disabled

2017 is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Mithra, and we are marking the occasion with the completion of a new dormitory for the girls, and by replacing the flood damaged and derelict original administration building with a health centre named...

CLARE HALF MARATHON 2017

Fundraising

CLARE HALF MARATHON 2017

By Friends of MithraApril 02, 2017Comments Disabled

Four keen supporters from Adelaide, Joseph Jones, Will Cox, Will Kennedy and Patrick Bollen, travelled up to Clare to compete in the Northern Argus Clare Valley Half Marathon on Sunday, 2 April. This was the first half-marathon for all of them, and the...

ANNA MARY

Events

ANNA MARY

By Friends of MithraMarch 27, 2017Comments Disabled

Many friends of Mithra would remember Anna Mary, a long-time resident of Mithra. She loved the children at Mithra, and took a particular interest in the girls who’s dormitories were adjacent to her room. Over the years as she met each new group...

COCONUT LAGOON LUNCH IN MELBOURNE

Fundraising

COCONUT LAGOON LUNCH IN MELBOURNE

By Friends of MithraMarch 22, 2017Comments Disabled

Last Sunday, 19th March, on a balmy Melbourne autumnal day, Nick Lux, Dan Sellick and Ben McDonald, hosted a Friends of Mithra Fundraiser Lunch at the Coconut Lagoon Indian Restaurant in Heidelberg. The whole tastefully decorated restaurant was given...

NOTHING LIKE A BAKE SALE!

Fundraising

NOTHING LIKE A BAKE SALE!

By Friends of MithraMarch 22, 2017Comments Disabled

Heidi Batson & Kris Stacey are Mithra Champions. They held their first social activity for 2017 at Queensland University of Technology, South Brisbane. It was a very successful Bake Sale held on Monday, March 20th in the Reception area of the Centre...

REMEMBERING OUR LENTEN JOURNEY IN 1992

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REMEMBERING OUR LENTEN JOURNEY IN 1992

By Friends of MithraMarch 03, 2017Comments Disabled

The Coramandel Express is an Indian flagship train service – always jam-packed – which operates daily from Kolkata Howrah to Chennai Central. The journey is about 1650 kilometres. My wife Jill and I boarded this train mid-afternoon on day...