Share
Catholic church leaders inaugurate a rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities, at Signal Angami village in Dimapur.[/caption]
Dimapur, Oct. 9 (EMN): A rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities has been inaugurated at Signal Angami village in Dimapur.
Angel Home, the center, is a daycare centre, initially to be so, for people who are differently able, a press release from the organisers on Wednesday stated. The centre is run by the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mary of Angels.
The inauguration of the rehabilitation centre adds another feature of service that the Catholic church renders to the people of Nagaland, the updates stated.
“It has been a long felt need to have a full fledged care centre for those children who are differently able (disabled or handicapped in the traditional terms). The Catholic Church runs such centers in different part of the country,” the press release read.
The updates explained that the Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, the bishop of Kohima, has been exploring possibilities of having such a centre in Nagaland because the state has many differently-able children with different types of disabilities, who due to their inability in one area do not get opportunities to develop their abilities in other areas of their life.
The congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mary of Angels, who collaborate in the mission of the church in three parishes in Nagaland came forward to build and run such a centre in Dimapur, the organisers informed in the press release.
Along with Sr. Samina, the provincial superior and Bishop James Thoppil, Rev. Sr. Cyrilla, the superior general of the congregation inaugurated the building by cutting the ribbon and lighting the lamp.
The bishop said a prayer of blessing and blessed the new house and celebrated the Holy Eucharist, which was followed by a short felicitation program and a meal, the updates stated.
In his homily, the Bishop in his homily said Angel home will “manifest to the people in the periphery, the least and lost, and to the society at large a loving, the caring, compassionate and serving face of God, who does not abandon but equip those who are differently able to discover and perfect hidden abilities in them.”
For now, Angel home will function only as a day care centre for people who are differently able, the updates stated.
‘Gradually it may extend to residential and full time care,’ the updates stated.