Year IX - Number 466 | 1 March 2017
Marist News 466
Marist Brothers - General House - Rome
Spain: SED to release a CD to fundraise for educational projects in Ghana The Marist NGO SED (Solidaridad, Educación y Desarrollo) is releasing a CD-book in March for its twenty-fifth anniversary to help children in Ghana receive better education. The CD, titled ‘Los Tambores Hablan’ (The Drums Speak), will include songs from famous Spanish artists such as Inma Serrano, Víctor Manuel, Ana Belén, Andrés Suárez, Juan Valderrama, José Sacristán, Antonio Carmona, David San José and Javier Vargas. Its other singers, who include Rozalén, Fran Fernández, Pasión Vega, Tontxu and Julián Maeso, travelled to Ghana in January for further insight into the project. The CD is part of the project ‘África tiene la palabra’ (Africa has a say), which aims to make Africa’s positive qualities and values more visibles. The schools that SED Works with in Ghana include Boukrom (1,200 students) and Sabin Akrofom (900 students) in Kumasi and the school of Ashalaja, on the outskirts of Accra, with 10 classrooms and 333 students. The NGO’s 2009 CD called ‘Cantos de Ghana’ (Songs from Ghana) with singers José Luis Perales, Tam Tam Go, Las Ketchup, Olé Olé and Asignatura Pendiente enabled the building of one of the schools.
To help promote this launch, please use the hashtags #LosTamboresHablan and #Áfricatienelapalabra, and visit SED http://www.sed-ongd.org/.
General Administration During this week of the General Council's plenary session, the study of the topics related to the next general chapter and the administration continued. A session was also held with the Secretariat of the Laity and two joint sessions with the provincial council of West-Central Europe. On Friday, March 3, the entire council will attend a meeting with the general council of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in their own general house. From February 28 to March 1, Brother Carlos Alberto Rojas, Director of the Secretariat of Mis-
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sion is in Puerto Rico meeting with the project team of the new models of the Arco Norte region. There, he will meet with the region's provincials on March 2. Brother Evaristus Kasambwe of FMSI will hold meetings until March 7 with the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. On March 2, the ongoing "Senderos" formation course begins in Manziana and El Escorial. The course will finish on May 26.