Abbey CBS, Tipperary.

ABBEY

INDIA

PROJECT

Providence School, Shillong.
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THE ABBEY SCHOOL

The Abbey stands in the centre of Tipperary town. It was founded in 1585 as an Erasmus Smith School and continued as such till 1939. It became a Christian Brothers secondary school in 1941 and has remained so ever since. The last Christian Brother there, Brother Horgan died in 2000 but the Edmund Rice ethos still permeates the school community

ABBEY INDIA PROJECT

2010

LAUNCHED ON

WED, NOV 11, 2009

THE PROJECT

The Abbey India Project started in 1999 as an Edmund Rice initiative and is one of many Third World Immersion Projects facilitated by the Christian Brothers Education Office.  

Every second year since 2000 a number of students travel to Shillong ( Meghalaya, N.E.India) and work there for a number of weeks in Providence School, a school for 250 marginalised children in the area.

The project have always operated on the basis that Third World work is a mix of giving and receiving, of teaching and being taught, .....more

 

Location of Shillong
 

2008 Project

 

At the end of October 2008,  after much preparation, 10 Abbey students went to work with the children in Providence School, Shillong and gave of their energy and their time to improve the lot of the children there.

  Read about how the 2006 group prepared  for the work of the project.

 

The ten Abbey students who will go to India.

Back: Matthew O'Donoghue, John Condon, Michael McGrath, Niall O Donovan, Damien Ryan, Paul Lawton.

Front: Tommy O Mahony, Paddy Davern, Cathal Martin, Matthew Hinwood.

 

2010 PROJECT

It is planned  that 10 new Abbey students will travel to Shillong in Oct/Nov  2010 to again assist the children in Providence and also to be taught by them.

Project 2010  was launched in the Abbey on Nov 11, 2009.

Applications are to to be handed in by Dec 1.

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