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COCONUT LAGOON LUNCH IN MELBOURNE
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...
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NOTHING LIKE A BAKE SALE!
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...
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REMEMBERING OUR LENTEN JOURNEY IN 1992
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...
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FOM COMMITTEE MEETS IN MELBOURNE
After several phone hook-ups over the past nine months, the Friends of Mithra Committee finally met face to face on Sunday in Melbourne for a lengthy strategic planning meeting. All seven members of the committee were present: Nick Lux, Danielle Sellick,...
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FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF ‘GOD’S DONKEY’ START CHARITY
[Article taken from The Catholic Leader, Brisbane, 6 Feb, 2017] RELATIVES of a Brisbane-born nun who spent her final years in Chennai caring for children and adults with disabilities have launched a new charity to support the Indian mission. Friends...
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A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY
(A reflection by University of Queensland student volunteer, Patrick Lynch.) India is a truly unique, rich and colourful experience that has shown me the depth of human love and compassion. I was part of the UQ St Leo’s sixth India Immersion group that...
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NOT A DRY EYE IN THE HOUSE
Friends of Mithra in Brisbane gathered on Sunday for their February Fundraiser: a Movie afternoon at the Portside Dendy Cinema to watch the Australian/India film “Lion”, starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and David Wenham. The response from friends...
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HELEN MAREE MAHONEY OAM
Today, Australia Day 2017, Helen Mahoney was awarded the Order of Australia medal for her service to children, particularly for her support over many years for the children of Mithra. We congratulate Helen on this well deserved honour, and thank her for...
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NATARAJAN – MITHRA’S INVALUABLE CONCIERGE
Who was the first child accepted into Mithra? It was a little village boy called Natarajan. Some might call it a coincidence; Sr Mary Theodore would say it was all part of God’s plan. In 1977, Kelvin Cook, an Australian social worker from Melbourne...