International day reaches out to global village
26 Sep 2018 02:04
Loreto Preparatory School pupils reached out to the global community with an international assembly celebrating the charitable work of the Loreto sisters worldwide.
In a morning of song, dance and public speaking the girls performed for a packed audience of parents at the Dunham Road School in Altrincham. Loreto sisters help the poor and oppressed in the Developing World with their missions providing education, medical care, food and shelter for those in most need.
During the Loreto Preparatory School International Day, each year group focused on a country where the Loreto sisters work on the streets and in the ghettos to help children and their families overcome difficulties that are simply alien to Western sensibilities.
Whether in South Sudan, Mexico, India or Albania, the girls told the audience, "day in day out the Loreto Sisters provide vital life-saving support." Loreto Preparatory School Headteacher Anne Roberts said: "Alongside Excellence, Truthfulness, Sincerity, Joyfulness, Justice and Freedom."
Internationalism is one of the seven core values of our founder Our Founder Mary Ward.
"Her pioneering social philanthropy courageously delivered in the face of the religious persecution of the early 17th Century remains a wonderful example for all children today."
Pictured from left to right are: Aine Pegler, Avista Jumma, Amelie Norbury, Daisy Beardsley, Maddie Shanahan, Zainab Imran and Evelyn Edmodson.
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