Our Missionaries

Every year the Mission Fund provides financial support to the Maltese and Gozitan missionaries. During 2009, the Mission Fund has donated a total of € 223,984 to the missionaries. The cumulative total of the donations since its inception in 1984 is € 2,507,619. These funds are used by the missionaries for the day-to-day running of their parishes or to realize specific projects in their parishes.

Details of the donations given by Mission Fund during recent years may be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link:

	Donations for 2010
	Donations for 2009
	Donations for 2008
	Donations for 2007

Applications for funds

Maltese and Gozitan missionaries may apply for funds from the Mission Fund by submitting an application. Application forms may be downloaded by clicking here.

List of Maltese Missionaries

The Mission Fund provides donations on a roster basis to over 200 missionary stations in about 40 countries throughout the globe. About 700 Maltese and Gozitan missionaries benefit from these donations in order to carry out their pastoral work.

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GOD`S WISDOM: If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Click here to view the contact details of missionaries working in Albania, Algeria, Bolivia, Brazil, British West Indies, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, India and Israel.

Click here for the following countries: Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Libya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru`, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

What the missionaries have to say about Mission Fund:

Sr Doris Fenech from Chunli, Taiwan (Sunday Times, Sunday 27 June 2010):

Taiwan is not a poor country but since only about three per cent of the population are Christian, and even less are Catholic. It is a missionary country where our Sisters are very actively involved in the local parish of the Sacred Heart in Chunli.

Our congregation, the Sisters of St Dorothy, has contact with people in need even in this country, mainly through Hope Workers Centre, which was set up by Colomban Fathers in our parish.

In particular we come into contact with migrant workers from the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia who are in need of help. I thank the Mission Fund of Mosta for its very generous donation of $1,437 to be used for people in need in this mission.

The Sisters of St Dorothy of St Paula Frassinetti in Taiwan are grateful for this help and assure benefactors of their prayers.

Mario and Audrey Borg from Guam (The Times, Saturday 26 June 2010):

We, the Borg family from the first NeoCatechumenal community of the parish of Fatima, Guardamangia, have been living with our five children on the island of Guam for five years. Guam is a small island in the Pacific ocean where the Lord invites us to follow him.

We would like to express our appreciation to all the benefactors who showed their generosity and love for the missions through Mission Fund.

The generous support of the Mission Fund helps us to continue our presence on Guam. We serve the Redemptoris Mater seminary, which is the first seminary for the diocese of Guam, as well as the evangelisation in various parishes around the island.

This seminary has already provided eight presbiters in 10 years since its conception, four of them ordained last November.

We are very grateful to assist and witness this work of the Lord in his field. We promise our prayers to all the benefactors and in the expression of the local Chamorro tongue: "Si Zu`us ma`asi!" - "May the Lord bless you!".

The public may contribute by sending used stamps or donations to the Mission Fund.

Donations may be sent online or by direct bank transfer on one of these accounts: HSBC (Account no: 061 197 448 050), BOV (Account no: 163 007 980 19), APS (Account no: 200 008207 62) or BANF (Account no: 000 879 631 01.

More information may be found on the website missionfund.org.mt.

Fr Alfred Mercieca from Tarija, Bolivia (The Times, Thursday 17 June 2010):

I wish to thank the Mission Fund for the permanent support and help we receive from them thanks to the Maltese people`s generous contributions. I am astonished at the stunning amount of donations the Mission Fund has collected since its foundation and distributed to Maltese missionaries working worldwide to this day.

May I humbly ask our generous countrymen to keep sending donations, telecards and whatever they deem useful to Mission Fund so that more money may be collected in continued support of Maltese missionaries in faraway Third World countries. Please know that all the benefactors of the Mission Fund both deceased and alive are duly remembered in our Masses and prayers.

Ms Marcette Buttigieg from India (The Times, Thursday 10 June 2010):

Malta has always treasured the missionary vocation left to us by St Paul, Pope Benedict XVI reminded us during his visit marking the anniversary of Paul`s providential shipwreck at St Paul`s Bay.

While some persons live out this mission in far off lands, bringing God`s love to those on the margins of society and restoring to them their downtrodden dignity, others here in Malta back up their efforts with prayer and financial support.

I have worked for the last 30 years in India, mostly in the field of community health and community- based rehabilitation and integration of children with disabilities, mostly tribal Santal children. I am indebted to the Mission Fund and all their friends for their support to me and their regular contributions for my work. This consists mainly of training local personnel as village-level health and rehabilitation workers as well as taking children for medical and surgical treatment to specialised centres.

Through this letter I wish to express my gratitude to all concerned. I encourage all persons of good will to continue to support the efforts of the Mission Fund by sending them used stamps and donations so that they may continue to help the many Maltese missionaries working in Third World countries.

Donations can be made online or by direct bank transfer to one of the following accounts: HSBC (Account No: 061 197 448 050), BOV (Account No: 163 007 980 19), APS (Account No: 200 008207 62) or Banif (account No: 000 879 631 01). More information may be accessed from the website: www.missionfund.org.mt.

Fr Ivan Attard OP from Durrës, Albania (The Times, Friday 4th June 2010):

The Maltese Dominican fathers in Durrës, Albania would like to thank the Mission Fund for its donation of €1,200 in aid of the Dominican mission in Albania.

Material poverty in Albania is prevalent as many people still struggle for a decent way of life that respects their dignity as human beings.

There is a deeper kind of poverty however, which stalls man`s initiative to move forward. This is precisely what happened in this country; a country whose rich and beautiful history is also marked by difficult times of political turmoil and fear. Now that the country is trying to get back on its feet, the Maltese Dominican friars are assisting the people not only to recover but also to regain the moral strength to make free and autonomous decisions.

Education and formation is a lasting investment not only within a particular society but also in every family and institution, because it is that which makes a human being more complete. As Dominicans, besides evangelisation, which is a priority to our community, we feel that it is our duty to assist in the education of young people who wish to embark on or take their studies further.

This is mainly done by providing these youths with an appropriate place conducive to studying. Besides providing the necessary facilities, books and other study materials, University and college fees are also paid for by our mission.

In the light of this people`s urgent need, this donation will be used towards this aim. May we take this opportunity to encourage more benefactors to keep sustaining the priceless work carried out by the Mission Fund through their support and contributions.

Bro. Carmel Muscat, SDB from Meghalaya, India (The Times, Friday 4th June 2010):

I wish to thank heartily the Mission Fund for the generous donation of $1,578.48 which they were pleased to send me for our mission here in India, where I have been working for the past 57 years.

This money will be used to provide clean drinking water to a remote village where the inhabitants have to go far to collect from some natural stream. By means of this project, we try to alleviate some of the hardships these people suffer, being forgotten by society.

The shortage of clean drinking water often brings disease which many times can cause death especially among the children. In such villages, medical assistance is also lacking. So when we go visiting them, we have to carry with us a good amount of medicine for the common diseases prevailing in the area. Many a time we also have to take some seriously ill patient to hospital which may not be very near! These are a few of the social works we carry out in our vast mission.

While again thanking the Mission Fund, I would also like to thank all the Maltese and Gozitans who generously help by sending used stamps and financial aid to the Mission Fund by means of which this organisation is able to continue supporting the Maltese and Gozitan missionaries worldwide.

May God bless the love and generosity for the missions.

Sr Marie Louise Grech CMT from Sopot, Poland (The Times, Thursday 3rd June 2010):

Visiting the Mission Fund of Mosta has become for me as familiar as visiting a good friend to thank him for supporting me during these last years in my mission here in Poland.

That`s why I would like to again thank all the members and benefactors of the Mission Fund and to urge the people of Malta and Gozo to send used stamps and telecards as well as money donations to the following address: Mission Fund, Eureka Court, Blk. A Flat 6 (ground floor), Main Street, Mosta, MST1018 (e-mail: missionfund@global.net.mt).

This will surely continue to be a great help for us Maltese and Gozitan missionaries working around the world among the poor and the needy. I promise my daily prayers for all our benefactors both living and dead. May God bless you and all your families for your generosity! Special thanks go also to my schoolmates of St Theresa Grammar School.

Sr Marie Bernadette Aquilina from Alexandria, Egypt (The Times, Monday 10 May 2010):

I would like to heartily thank the Mission Fund for the financial help to King Mariout Monastery of St Clare in Alexandria, Eygpt. I am a Poor Clare nun with the said community.

A few years ago we were abiding in an old and desolate monastery and we were forced to move out. With the limited financial resources at our disposal we had to build a new monastery. We were blessed with some financial help from the Mission Fund in Malta.

We appreciated this benevolence, which alleviated some of the many difficulties we were facing.

May I take this opportunity to appeal for the donation of used stamps and cash to the Mission Fund in Mosta.

Other donations to the Monastery of King Mariout will be appreciated.

Please contact Madre Rose Therese Ellis of St Clare`s Monastery, Mikiel Anton Vassalli Road, Kappara, San Ġwann SGN 9040.

We remember all benefactors in our daily prayers and Masses.

Sr Concetta Dimech from Tunis (Sunday Times, Sunday 25th April 2010):

I wish to thank the Mission Fund for its generous donation which we received for our mission in Tunis.

The donation will help pay for the rebuilding of our kindergarten in Ain Draham, which had become dangerously dilapidated. Most of the children are very poor and cannot pay the very modest fees. Our congregation, the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, has been in this part of Tunisia for over 60 years, working among the poor.

I appeal to the generosity of your readers to help the Mission Fund of Mosta by sending donations, used stamps, telecards, etc., to enable it to continue to help Maltese missionaries in Third World countries.

Sr Tessie Sciortino from Chak, Pakistan (Sunday Times, Sunday 4th April 2010):

Sr Dolores Gauci, along with the other Dominican Sisters who run our orphanage in Chak, Pakistan, thank the Mission Fund for the donation of €1,200. This sum is being used to cover the children`s everyday needs, for educating them and sometimes even helping their near relatives. This contribution helps us to give them something they cannot get.

I thank all our generous benefactors and promise them our prayers.

I kindly ask your readers to send donations, used stamps and mobile phone cards to the Mission Fund, 72/2, St Joseph`s Flats, Triq il-Farinal, Mosta MST 07, so that it can keep on helping Maltese missionaries in Third World countries.

Fr Raymond Portelli from Peru (Sunday Times, Sunday 28 March 2010):

I would like to thank all those who are helping our missionary work in some way or other. Being a missionary means being sent to another Church to do God`s will of evangelisation.

It is not a personal initiative but a sharing in the essential nature of the Church. In some way or other we are all called to do missionary work. May we do it with joy and united as a Church.

Let us work always together in communion with our pastors for the greater glory of God and the well being of our fellow brothers and sisters.

A personal thanks to all the benefactors of our mission work in the Amazon jungle of Peru and to the Missionary Office of Malta and Gozo, Mission Fund, Support lill-Missjunaru, Friends of Peru and Moviment Ġesù fil-Proxxmu.

With your help we can continue serving the poorest of the poor. I promise you my prayers.

Sr Tessie Sciortino OP, on behalf of Sr Rachele Agius OP from Pakistan (The Times, Monday 11 March 2010):

Sr Rachele Agius, who runs St Martin de Porres Disp. Chak, Pakistan, thanks all the members of the Mission Fund for the donation of €1,200.

This sum is being used towards the supply of medicine to some poor families, helping poor people who need to be operated on and cannot afford the expense, and helping families to feed and educate their children. Besides, we even help poor pregnant women not to have abortions. I thank all our generous benefactors and promise them our prayers. I kindly ask the Maltese people to send donations, used stamps and telecards to the Mission Fund so that this organisation can keep on helping Maltese missionaries who are working in Third World countries.

God bless you all and keep you under His love and protection.

Rose Mallia from Bogotá, Colombia (Sunday Times, Sunday 14th February 2010):

I am member of a secular institute and have been working as a lay missionary in Latin America for 32 years. For the past nine years I have been working in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia.

I write to thank the Mission Fund, which forwarded to me the sum of €1,200 last month to help me in my missionary work.

The money will help me to continue implementing the two projects I have in hand, namely the New Horizon, where we teach a group of women different skills and crafts to enable them to set up co-operatives and thus earn a living, and the other is helping a group of young girls, aged 10 to 16, who live in our parish.

These girls live in a small house, under the supervision of a Colombian nun and they all come from what is known here as `a risky situation` either due to guerilla activity, extreme poverty or a difficult moral situation, and for these reasons they live away from their parents and families.

We help these children by giving them psychological, educational, spiritual and material help and thus keep them from roaming the streets begging for food, and so on. It is hoped that eventually they would form a family and become good citizens.

I therefore encourage more people to continue sending donations, used stamps and used mobile phone cards to the Malta Mission Fund so that it continues to help Maltese missionaries.

God will reward this kindness with the less fortunate and I assure all Maltese and the Mission Fund, in particular, that they are always in my prayers.

Sr Irene Balzan, Medical Missionary of Mary from Zaffé, Republic of Benin (The Times, Monday 1 February 2010):

In trying to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the Mission Fund has been an invaluable instrument by its donations to our mission in the Republic of Benin, West Africa. We have been able to build latrines in four of the surrounding villages and this improved sanitation has had a marked improvement in people`s health.

We urge readers to continue to send their donations, used stamps and used telecards to Mission Fund so they will be able to continue their ministry to the underprivileged. Thank you for joining hands with us in our mission.

May God bless and reward each one of you.

Sr Gemma Fenech from Bataan, Philippines (Sunday Times, Sunday 24 January 2010):

After the devastating effect of the November typhoons, the financial help I received recently from the Mission Fund Malta came as a surprising and encouraging gesture.

Their donation came just in time and it will be used solely for the benefit of the children: to provide them with education, food and medicine.

It is thanks to our benefactors and all those involved in the Mission Fund Malta that we missionaries can find the courage and strength to alleviate the pain and gloom of those living in appalling conditions.

I encourage your readers to continue supporting the Mission Fund. A used stamp, a mobile phone card or surplus household goods can work wonders if one just gives them to the Mission Fund. I can assure you that nothing will go wasted. They have a way of recycling and turning discarded things into financial help needed anywhere the Maltese missionaries are based.

Thank you, Mission Fund. May God bless you all.

Fr Joseph Gauci Sacco SJ from Vinay Bhawan, Jharkand, India (Sunday Times, Sunday 17 January 2010):

As a Maltese Jesuit missionary in India, I would like to thank the Mission Fund of Mosta for its donation of €1,200 to help subsidise the printing of biblical and religious literature in Santali.

Santali is the language of the Santals, the largest tribe in India; printing nowadays is very costly, and unless it is subsidised, our poor Santals in northeast India will not be able to afford them. The sum will be used to subsidise these books to make them available to our Christian community at an affordable price.

I encourage readers to send used stamps, telecards and cash contributions to the Mission Fund so that they may continue to help Maltese missionaries all over the world in their various apostolates.

Sr Maria Borda, doctor-in-charge, Makiungu Hospital, Tanzania (The Times, Thursday 31 December 2009):

I have confirmed with my nephew Carlo Zammit that the donation of €10,000 from the Mission Fund went into the Medical Missionaries of Mary`s account at Bank of Valletta by November 17. We are arranging for this generous amount to be transferred to Makiungu Hospital`s bank account in Tanzania so that we can start obtaining the materials and building the foundations for the urgently needed hostel, which we are being helped to build by the volunteers of Mission Fund.

This year we have had a wonderful series of Maltese visitors - first the Mission Fund group on August 15; then Furtu Caruana, who gave a big spurt to the hospital report, which had to be put aside due to pressure of work for over two years; and finally doctors Sean Agius and Mark Camilleri, who have just spent six very helpful weeks here and made it possible for me to catch up a little with office matters.

We are looking forward so much to having the Maltese team working with us, shoulder to shoulder, next August, please God.

May God bless you all, gratefully and sincerely.

Fr Lonnie Borg MSSP fom Manila, Philippines (The Times, Monday 28 December 2009):

I am a member of the MSSP assigned to the mission in the Philippines. My main pastoral work is in a state University in Metro Manila.

As chaplain, together with my campus ministry team, we are trying to give students a Christian formation and provide scholarships so that they can further their studies. Most of them come from poor families in Manila and the surrounding provinces.

We encounter students that cannot complete their courses because of financial problems. Besides, near our house in Quezon City there are many poor families who experience lots of hardships.

These last three months alone they had floods due to typhoon Ondoy and, recently, a big fire destroyed many of their houses.

We would like to thank you all for your help and support.

I like to say thank you to the Mission Fund of Eureka Court, Blk A, Flat 6 (ground floor), Main Street, Mosta for their help to our mission.

Wishing you a blessed Christmas.

Mgr Vincent Costa, Bishop of Umuarama Diocese, Panama, Brazil (Sunday Times, Sunday 27 December 2009):

Through this letter I would like, once again, to express my thanks to all Maltese who support the Mission Fund.

These acts of generosity are much more beautiful during Christmas time, when we remember that God sent His Son to all mankind in order to acquire our salvation.

I will be using the funds I received from the Mission Fund to support two of my projects: one is a social project run by Caritas and the other is to support the spiritual and intellectual development of our seminarians. Our Diocese now has 14 seminarians in all.

Therefore, I would like to appeal to Maltese friends of the missions to continue to support the Mission Fund by sending them used stamps, used telecards and financial contributions. May I also take this opportunity to wish all your readers and their families a Holy Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Sr Terenzia Maniscalco from Marikina City, The Philippines (The Times, Monday 21 December 2009):

I would like to thank the Mission Fund for the financial aid to our community, the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of St Theresa of the Child Jesus.

We are really grateful for the donation that enables us to help children deprived of their basic needs here at Quezon city, in The Philippines.

The Fund enabled us to provide several families with children recovering in our oratory with a supply of rice (the basic food of The Philippines) and canned foods to meet some basic nutritional needs.

We thank the donors for helping us in our mission to help the poorest and vulnerable through their generosity and solidarity and we wish to thank them on behalf of these persons.

We promise to keep them always in our prayers so that the Good Lord will bless them and keep them ever close to His Most Sacred Heart.

Merry Christmas.

Fr Joseph M. Gauci Sacco SJ, from Jharkhand, India (The Times, Monday 21 December 2009):

I would like to thank the Mission Fund for sending me €1,200 as a contribution to subsidise biblical and religious literature in Santali. I am presently engaged in printing such material in Santali, the language of Santals, the largest tribe in India. Printing nowadays is very costly and unless subsidised, our poor Santals in north east India would not be able to afford to buy the material. So we have to subsidise them.

The amount will be used towards books made available to our Christian community at an affordable price.

I encourage the Maltese people to send used stamps, telecards and any other contribution to Mission Fund so that they may continue to help Maltese missionaries all over the world in their various apostolates.

Sr M. Antoinette Agius, OCD from Nazareth, Israel (Sunday Times, Sunday 1st November 2009):

The Mission Fund of Mosta has been helping some of needy families whom we know well and I feel obliged. These Arab Christian families try hard to make ends meet without success because the cost of living is high and the family`s income does not cover expenses, especially when they have several children and their father is out of work or has a low wage.

The Mission Fund deserves credit for trying with great difficulty to obtain funds to help people in great need, often living in the Third World.

Some of these rely on bank loans to survive.

I heartily appeal to the generosity of your readers to help the Mission Fund in any way they can, especially through donations and used stamps to "Eureka Court", Blk A, Flat 6, Main Street, Mosta.

Sr Maria Borda from Makiungu Hospital, Singida, Tanzania (Sunday Times, Sunday, 18th October 2009):

Heartfelt congratulations for the Mission Fund`s 25th anniversary. Only God knows the many deprived people you have helped.

We were so glad to receive the supplies that you brought with you, the anaesthetic machine, the examination couch, the gas oven, the medicines, wheelchairs, theatre lamp, and more. The Mission Fund has been so generous with us and our patients over the years.

Today I am writing a preliminary request to ask the Mission Fund Proġett Tama to consider coming to Makiungu Hospital next summer.

Since Makiungu became the District Designated Hospital for Singida, we have waived all the charges for pregnant mothers and for children. Of course, the workload has increased immensely, since they come from far away for our services.

The hospital has a surgeon and an obstetrician, and there is no other such specialist in the district. We also receive doctors from Nairobi or Moshi every two months, making it possible for the patients who cannot travel nine hours by road to a referral hospital, to receive their special treatment here in their own environment.

However, this means a need to increase our staff, doctors, nurse-midwives, anaesthetists and laboratory technicians. Some of these are short-term specialists from abroad, who may bring other visitors with them to try to persuade them of our great needs. In October, I am looking forward to receiving our compatriots Shawn Agius and Mark Camilleri.

However, we are reaching the stage of having to refuse staff and committed volunteers because we are running out of accommodation. We have therefore asked an architect to prepare a plan for a two-storey 20-room building for this urgent purpose. We realise this will be expensive, but we will look for co-funding. Our big request today is for the Mission Fund to provide their expert team for the building, and to help in any other way that is possible. Thank you for your commitment to our patients.

Sr Marie Louise Grech from Kujawska, Poland (The Times, Wednesday, 19 August 2009):

I have been a Teresian Carmelite Missionary since 1961 and for these last 17 years I`ve been working in Poland. I would like to thank the Mission Fund for the generous donation I received lately.

It will surely be a great help for my mission work over here which consists in visiting the old, the lonely and the sick, as well as providing material and spiritual help to the needy.

Besides, I spend a lot of my time consoling broken hearts. One of the greatest wounds nowadays is the loneliness of many persons both young and old.

I encourage the people of Malta and Gozo to continue sending used stamps and telecards as well as money donations to the Mission Fund, Eureka Court, Blk A, Flat 6 (ground floor), Main Street, Mosta, MST1018, or by e-mail: missionfund@global.net.mt. This will surely be a great help for us Maltese and Gozitan missionaries working around the world disinterestedly distributing help and true love among the poor and the needy.

Once again I would like to thank all the active members of the Mission Fund as well as our benefactors, promising my daily prayers both for the living as well as for the dead.

May God bless you and all your families for your generosity.

Fr John Farrugia from Karachi, Pakistan (Sunday Times, Sunday 14 June 2009):

I wish to thank the Mission Fund for making a donation to our mission in Pakistan. The money will finance programmes for Christian formation of youths and adults especially in poor parishes.
I therefore encourage more people to continue sending donations, used stamps and used telecards to the Mission Fund so that it could continue to help Maltese missionaries in their work.

Sister Mary Abdilla from Jerusalem (Sunday Times, Sunday 14 June 2009):

I sincerely wish to thank all those who faithfully contribute to the Mission Fund of Malta through generous donations of cash and used postage stamps and telephone cards.

We are so grateful to all of you for enabling us, with the help of the Mission Fund, to continue to alleviate some of the suffering of Bethlehem and West Bank families, especially those who have no income whatsoever. May the Lord reward you for your kindness to His poor. You can be sure that they will pray for you, and we shall remember your intentions at the holy places here.

Fr John Farrugia from Karachi, Pakistan (The Times, Wednesday, 3 June 2009):

I wish to thank the Mission Fund for their donation to our mission in Pakistan.

The donation will be used to finance programmes for Christian formation of youth and adults especially in poor parishes. So I wish to encourage more people to continue helping the Mission Fund with donations, used stamps and used telecards.

In this way, the Fund will be able to continue to help Maltese missionaries in their work.

Sr Carmen Borg from The Philippines (The Sunday Times, Sunday, 17 May 2009):

I would like to thank all those who sent contributions to the Mission Fund.

Every two years we receive money donated, which we use for our children and the poor who knock on our door every day asking for food and medicine.

Here in the Philippines, we the Augustinian Sisters, Servants of Jesus and Mary, have an orphanage for abandoned, unwanted, neglected and foundling children. We have 26 boys and girls aged from just a few days to 11 years.

Nine of the children go to public school and we have to pay for their education as well as food, clothing, medicine and any supplies they need. This scholastic year we have six more children to send to school.

One of the Sisters, Sr Dee, teaches about 30 pre-school children twice a week at our convent. Most of these children come from poor families and they appreciate what we do for them. Around Christmas we also provide the poor families with a meal. Last Christmas we gave out 400 bags of food.

We can do this because of the generosity of people like you. We urge you to send your used stamps, used telecards and other donations to the Mission Fund, `Eureka Court`, Blk. A Flat 6 (ground floor), Main Street, Mosta, MST1018, or by e-mail: missionfund@global.net.mt

We promise you our prayers both for the living as well as for the dead.

May God bless you all.

Sr Marie-Bernadette Aquilina from Alexandria, Egypt (The Sunday Times, Sunday 29 March 2009):

I am a Poor Clare Sister from the community of the Sisters of St Clare (Klarissi) in St Julian`s. At present I am living in Alexandria, Egypt, helping our Poor Clare Sisters because of a lack of vocations.Two years ago, they started to build a new monastery. They are the only community of Sisters in Alexandria and their presence among the Muslims and members of other religions is beneficial. We love the people and share with them the spirit of Jesus and all the Christian values. We are deeply loved and respected by them. They live a poor life.

In the monastery at Alexandria, we need help for our daily upkeep.

Without our benefactors` precious support, we wouldn`t be able to finish our monastery. Please, do continue to help the Mission Fund by sending them used stamps and telecards at `Eureka Court`, Block A, Flat 6 (ground floor), Main Street, Mosta MST 1018.

It would also be of great help if you had to help our Sisters in Alexandria financially. You can send your donation to Mother Rose Therese Ellis at St Clare`s Monastery, Mikiel Anton Vassalli Road, St Julian`s, SGN 9040. She will then forward your offering to us in Alexandria.

God will surely reward your kindness by sending fresh blessings upon you and your families. We assure you of our daily prayer before the Eucharist without forgetting your dear departed ones.

Fr Paul Mercieca from Sao Paulo, Brazil (The Times, Tuesday, 24 March 2009):

Our parish of St Joseph in Mairinque, Sao Paulo, Brazil, was very happy to receive a donation from the Mission Fund. It amounted to $1,584.This will be used to buy a plot of land in order to construct a chapel and community centre in one of our communities which amount to 13 in all.

One of the challenges we face is when we need to buy some plot or to build.

The reason is that the majority of the people find it hard to make ends meet and contribute to the community at the same time. So the donation given by the Mission Fund is of great help.

I would like to thank the members and all those who help this organisation for their work to help the mission of Maltese missionaries in Third World countries. The Maltese people are known for their generosity. My appeal is to continue helping the Mission Fund. One can do this by sending used stamps, used telecards and donations with which it could help projects in other countries.

Be sure that the Maltese in general and the Mission Fund in particular are always in my prayers.

Thank you for your help.

Sr Mary Rose Muscat from Israel (The Sunday Times, Sunday, 8 March 2009):

I am a Maltese missionary in Israel and would like to thank all Maltese for their generosity by contributing to the Mission Fund, from which I have received the sum of $1,480.32.

This is of great help to us. The money is used to help the poor for their needs such as medical care, education, school supplies, material for pastoral work, etc.

I am very grateful and encourage you to continue supporting the organisation. Others who are not yet involved should support the Mission Fund by sending used stamps, telecards and donations.

May God reward you a hundredfold for helping the less fortunate and grant you all the graces and blessings you deserve.

Ms Lara Bezzina from Burkina Faso (The Times, Wednesday, 4 March 2009):

I am currently working in Burkina Faso as a development worker with an organisation of people with disabilities. My work consists of building the capacities of the organisation in terms of lobbying for the rights of people with disabilities, gender equality, and assisting them to become independent both as an organisation and as individuals.

Most of the disabled people in Burkina Faso are marginalised from society and live in poverty.

A great number of people with disabilities have no means of integrating into society, either because their families hide them at home, or because they do not have the necessary equipment, or even because they do not have education or employment, amongst other reasons.

With a stroke of luck, I have been put in contact with the voluntary organisation Mission Fund, who has very kindly given me the contribution of €1,200 to be used to help the people with disabilities with whom I am working in the region where I am placed.

It is planned that the money will be spent on necessary equipment (such as wheelchairs, crutches, white canes and hearing aids), the help of which will support the integration of disabled people into society; disabled people who have no means of buying the equipment themselves.

On behalf of the organisation of disabled people I am placed with (Coordination Provinciale des Associations des Personnes Handicapees de la Comoe), I would like to express my heartfelt thanks for the aid the Mission Fund have given us to help improve the lives of people in need.

I would like to appeal to the public to donate any used stamps, telecards, or donations to the Mission Fund at the following address: Mission Fund, "Eureka Court", Blk A Flat 6, Main Street, Mosta MST 1018. You can also contact Mission Fund on the following: 2141 3664 or missionfund@global.net.mt

Fr Jose` Sciberras from Salvador, Brazil (The Times, Tuesday, 24 February 2009):

I wish to thank the Mission Fund for the generous donation they sent me last December. In Salvador, BA, Brazil, the Jesuits have a social centre, called Centro Social Sementes de Amanha - Seeds of Tomorrow - that welcomes abandoned infants and children up to six years of age.

Adoptive parents are trained and paid for attending to these children. At present there are 43; they stay till the age of 18. The donation I received will be spent on improving this "parental" assistance.

If readers would like to help the Missions, remember to send used stamps, used telecards and donations to the Mission Fund at Eureka Court, Block A, Flat 6 (Ground Floor), Main Street, Mosta, MST, 1018, Malta. Their e-mail: missionfund@global.net.mt

Fr Peter Fenech from Sao Paulo, Brasil (The Times, Monday 16 February 2009):

I wish to thank the Mission Fund for the offer of help towards my missionary work with the poor, especially those who live on the streets around the cathedral of Sao Paulo where I serve as the curate. We also help the sisters who work in Amparo Maternal, a hospital where about 60 children are born daily of poor and abandoned single mothers. I ask the Maltese public to cooperate with the Mission Fund in raising funds for missionaries in the Third World countries.

Sr Mary Carmen Busuttil from Alexandria, Egypt (The Times, Friday 2 January 2009):

Please allow me to thank the Mission Fund of Mosta, through this newspaper, for the donation they sent me. We will be able to continue helping some families whose children need help in their studies, and to provide some part-time jobs to young university graduates who haven`t got a stable job yet. While wishing all readers a very happy New Year, I also wish to ask kind readers to continue sending used stamps and telecards and all kinds of donations to the Mission Fund of Mosta.

Fr Paul Buttigieg from Cuba (The Sunday Times, Sunday 21 December 2008):

I would like to thank the Mission Fund (Mosta) for the generous donation of €1,164.69 (Lm500) which was given to me for the mission carried out in the diocese of Santa Clara, Cuba. This donation helps cover expenses in the formation of catechists and transport as well as families in need.

At the beginning of the Lenten season, I invite your readers to keep the missionary vocation in their prayers and the sick and the suffering to offer their share and take part in the proclamation of the Good News to the ends of the world.

I would like to thank all the benefactors who make it possible for the Mission Fund to send these donations and encourage them to keep sending stamps, telecards and other donations so that this good work may keep going.

Peace be with you all and let us keep each other in our prayers.

Mr Hector Pickard from Peru (The Times, Wednesday, 17 December 2008):

While in Malta for a rest from my mission in Peru, I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Mission Fund of Mosta for the recent donation they gave me to help the sick and poor in Lima.

I have been doing missionary work in this country for the last nine years, helping abandoned and handicapped children in one of the poorest zones in Lima. Through the donation I managed to help people who need medical and study expenses as well as distribute foodstuffs among the poor.

May I urge all readers to help the Mission Fund by sending them donations, used stamps and telecards so that they would be able to help other Maltese missionaries around the world.

My thanks for the generosity.

Emidio Saliba, SJ from Jharkhand, India (Sunday Times, Sunday 16th November 2008):

Every year, during the monsoon season, one watches on TV many pictures from India showing flooded areas, damaged homes and people fleeing to higher ground. However, there are areas that face drought for several months during the long hot summer.

I happen to live and work in one such area. The wells on which we depend for our water supply dry up. Therefore we need to dig another big well to have enough water for our schoolchildren, the hundreds of boarders who live on campus and our neighbours.

I thank the Mission Fund for its precious contribution to fulfil this need. I encourage everyone to co-operate with Mission Fund by donating money, stamps and used telecards so that they will continue to help Maltese missionaries in their work.

The Mission Fund`s address is `Eureka Court`, Block A, Flat 6, Main Street, Mosta MST 1018, tel. 2141 3664, e-mail: missionfund@global.net.mt.

Sr Josephine Borg, FMM from St Raphael`s Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan (Sunday Times, Sunday 16th November 2008):

I wish to let your readers know about the generous donation of €1,200 I received from the Mission Fund. This will be of great help to us in our Outreach programme to buy medicines for tuberculosis patients from poor families.

Donations of this sort are a great support to us in our work among the poor people God entrusted to us. At the same time these are also of encouragement to us Maltese missionaries to continue with our work.

It is of great satisfaction for us to know that in our dear Malta there are many generous people who are really concerned about us and our work.

Ms Maris Camilleri from Arequipa, Peru (Sunday Times, Sunday 16th November 2008):

I am a lay missionary working in a polyclinic in Alto Cayma, Arequipa, Peru. I recently received a most generous donation of €1,200 from the Mission Fund (Malta) which will be welcomed by all those who come to this clinic for medical help, especially cancer patients who need treatment, and elderly people suffering from chronic diseases.

May I ask your readers to think of the good work done by the Mission Fund, on a global scale, through Maltese missionaries.

Fr Anthony Zammit from Ayacucho, Peru (The Times, Thursday, 6th November 2008):

I am sure all readers have heard about the benevolent Mission Fund. I am happy because for the first time I have received the nice sum of €1,200 thus recognising me as one of the Maltese missionaries.

Working alone and so far in the Jungle of Ayacucho Peru, I often feel disheartened but when I see the generosity of the Maltese through a gift like the one the Mission Fund just gave me, then I do not feel alone and I want to work harder for God`s people.

The Mission Fund is a great source of help to all Maltese missionaries around the world. I urge readers to visit www.missionfund.org.mt where they can meet them.

My mission is just a baby and I have had to start from scratch. It is beautiful and to feel God with you all the time is something out of this world. I urge readers to contribute to the Mission Fund and help them to help us so we will in turn help the poor people assigned into our hands.

Fr Anthony Zammit from Ayacucho, Peru (The Sunday Times, Sunday 26 October 2008):

I am a new Maltese missionary in the village of Santa Rosa in Ayacucho, Peru, and I recently received a handsome donation of € 1,200 from the Mission Fund, Malta.

God has entrusted me a parish of 11,000 people, which has no church, no parish house and lacks so many other amenities; there are no banks, no postal service, barely any electricity and no drainage. The water is contaminated and the inhabitants earn a living mostly by growing coffee, chocolate beans and cocoa leaves which are also turned into cocaine. Because of this drug trafficking, my parish is still dangerous to live in and we cannot use the roads after 5 pm.

The people of Santa Rosa never had a priest; they only saw one once a year. Now they do not know what to make of me. I started to build a church for them and put two religious teachers in their primary school. They cost me €230 a month each but 1,100 children are getting what is their right as Catholics.

I also intend to invite other groups as the Neo-Catechumens and the Charismatics to start a group in my parish. This way I will be building two churches, one of stone and the real live parish of faithful.

I thank all those who help the Mission Fund by sending them used stamps and telecards and money because through them all the Maltese missionaries around the world benefit. Have a look at what the Mission Fund does by visiting www.missionfund.org.mt and you can also learn where and who the Maltese missionaries are.

God bless you and repay you hundredfold for your generosity.

Sr Carmen Farrugia from Jerusalem (The Times, Thursday 2 October 2008):

As a Maltese religious nun in the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion since 1961 and living in Jerusalem since 1965, I have been very active in several ministries, especially in education.

In recent years we are being called to support in several ways the poor and the deprived as a result of the current conflicts.

I would like to appeal to readers to send donations, used stamps and tele-cards to the Mission Fund, Eureka Court, Block A, Flat 6, Main Street, Mosta, MST 1018; e-mail: missionfund@global.net.mt, tel/fax: 2141 3664.

With these donations they could help us Maltese missionaries serving in the Third World Countries.

Fr Frank Cortis MSSP from Arequipa, Peru (The Times, Tuesday 9 September, 2008):

I would like to publicly thank the Mission Fund for their generous donation of €l,200 that assists me in my work with homeless and needy children in my mission in Peru.

I direct a home called Aldea Sagrada Familia which houses 50 child residents who are either orphans or come from poor and broken families, after having been abandoned, ill-treated or abused physically or psychologically. Some of these children have a physical disability.

I would like to encourage the Maltese and Gozitans who help the Mission Fund to continue doing so since only in this way can this prestigious organisation persevere in its work with us missionaries in so many different and distant countries.

Any donation in the form of used stamps and telecards or in cash is greatly appreciated. On behalf of all the children in my care, I would like to thank all donors for being so generous and for the love they show towards us missionaries. May God bless you and your families.

Sr Anne Savona from Jerusalem, Israel (The Times, Tuesday 9 September, 2008):

I am a Sister of St Joseph of the Appiration working with handicapped children and needy families in Israel on a multidenominational basis; no one is turned away.

It is most fortunate that while in Malta I received a most generous donation from the Mission Fund which will be welcomed by all those involved in helping the children and families who, without such funds, would be consigned to a life of unimaginable misery.

May I ask readers to think of the sterling work done by the Mission Fund, on a global basis, through Maltese missionaries. You, too, can help by sending used stamps, telecards, and donations to: The Mission Fund, `Eureka Court`, Block A, Flat 6, Main Street Mosta MST 1018.

My thanks and prayers to those of you who heed this request.

Fr Giovanni Cefai Camilleri from Arequipa, Peru` (The Times, Saturday 6 September 2008):

I have spent the last eight years working as a missionary priest in the Parish of La Tomilla, Arequipa, Peru. The vocation of a missionary priest is very rewarding but very challenging too, especially if one aspires to live the authentic missionary vocation to the full. Being a missionary is not just an adventure living away from your country, culture and friends. It means also a total and personal commitment to serve the Lord in His poor people.

I am working with several hundreds of poor families. I provide them with daily food from our recently inaugurated "kitchen` and with free medical care and medicines. Our new and large clinic was opened last December. In the parish we also have two big nurseries to look after the abandoned children. Besides, we provide care for the elderly who are hungry or sick. At present we are focusing our resources on building small houses, or adding toilets and showers for the families who live in huts.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Mission Fund who recently sent me $1,867.08 for the above mentioned projects. I encourage all readers to make donations or contribute used stamps and telecards to the Mission Fund in order to continue to help the Maltese missionaries throughout the world.

I would like also to congratulate Fr Louis Mallia on his new appointment as the Superior of MSSP in Malta and on the success of Ohloq Tbissima 2008. Many thanks to all the helpers and all benefactors of Centru Animazzjoni Missjunarju. Thanks also to all my friends and benefactors who constantly support my parish and my work. Keep it up; we really need your help.

At the moment I am in Malta for a holiday. Anyone who would like to contact me, please ring my mobile: 79815082 or send an e-mail to. I lookforward to hearing from you. You are all in our daily prayers.

God bless you.

Sr Natalie Abela from Pakistan (The Times, Wednesday 27 July 2008):

I am a Maltese missionary in Pakistan where our ministry is mainly in the fields of education, health and social work. We visit families to strengthen their Christian faith, help children with their homework and promote women, who, in this country, are still considered as second-class citizens.

Our work is just a drop in an ocean of needs. The greatest wound is illiteracy. It is common to see children running aboUt in the streets, working or collecting garbage from skips.

Often, these children are not paid but instead are given a daily meal. Although they are not a financial help to the family, they become less of a burden as they come around the table ... if they have one!

As we believe that education will save the human person, we try to invest most of the donations we get by offering the possibility of educating these children, with the hope of opening new horizons for their future. It`s impossible to help them all because we lack the financial means. But we do what we can.

I would like to thank the Mission Fund for its untiring work in fundraising activities so that they`ll be able to help Maltese missionaries. I would like to thank them for the donation of €1,200 they gave me this year.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the Maltese who respond generously whenever they are called to contribute to charity. We might be the ones working directly in the field but without your help, we can do little. I encourage you to continue to offer your donations, send used stamps and phone cards to the Mission Fund and help in any way possible.

May the Lord, who rewards every glass of water given to the needy, fill your heart and your household with every kind of blessing. You are in our daily prayers.

Ms Marcette Buttigieg from Mosta (The Times, Monday, 18 August 2008):

The generous support of the Maltese people for the missions that has benefitted many in Third World countries, does us proud as a nation, and is a fitting tribute to our father in the faith, St Paul. I can testify abundantly to this from my 25 years of lay missionary work in Santal Parganas, India.

My main involvement is the training of local women to run dispensaries in the interior areas where qualified medical personnel are unavailable.

I also train and supervise village health workers in the diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses like malaria, TB and epilepsy. Another demanding activity is the community rehabilitation of children with various forms of disabilities.

During my recent visit to Malta, I came to know several members of the Mission Fund and have been highly impressed and edified by their dedication and commitment in collecting funds and in their annual building projects.

I would like to thank the Mission Fund publicly for the donation they have given me. Thanks are also due to the many friends who give donations and collect telecards and stamps to help raise funds.

May the Lord bless them and grant them the hundredfold He promised.

Fr Victor Livori MSSP from Arequipa, Peru (The Times, Friday, 8 August 2008):

I have been working in Peru for the last 18 years. Definitely, leaving home, friends, career, culture, language, homeland etc... to come to evangelise in the shanty towns of a remote district in Arequipa called Cayma was not that easy. But I firmly believed that those who leave everything for the Kingdom`s sake will not be forgotten. I feel that this reality comes true, through the constant prayer and support that the generous Maltese give.

I am writing to express heartfelt thanks to the Mission Fund who recently sent $1,867.08 to aid the running of a public kitchen where around 300 poor children and abandoned elderly receive a decent daily meal; also to help the construction of small rooms to help poor families live in better conditions.

I exhort all those who can contribute used stamps, used tele-cards and donations to the Mission Fund to do so in order to aid the many projects that Maltese missionaries are running throughout the world.

I would like also to thank all those who contributed to the success of Ohloq Tbissima and all benefactors of Centru Animazzjoni Missjunarja.

We keep all our benefactors, dead and alive, in our daily prayers.

Fr Marcell Portelli MSSP Lima, Peru (The Times, Friday, 8 August 2008):

I would like to thank the Mission Fund of Mosta for the donation they recently gave me for our poor people who live in our Mission of Lima, Peru. These poor people come for food, clothes, medicine, to pay their ticket to travel from Lima to their original village, some 12 or 14 hours travel, and so many other needs.

I would like to thank the Mission Fund for their noble work on behalf of the Missions and also all the Maltese and Gozitan people who help them in the activities they organise for the same aim.

Mario and Audrey Borg from Guam, Micronesia (The Times, Monday, 19 May 2008):

May we acknowledge through this newspaper the kindness and generosity of the Mission Fund (Mosta) which has just sent us a generous contribution towards our mission work in Guam, Micronesia. We are a family in mission with five children hailing from Guardamangia parish of Our Lady of Fatima. The eldest of our children is 11, the youngest three, two of them born in mission.

After four years helping in a deprived parish in New Jersey - an area that was full of drugs, gang violence and rampant poverty - three years ago, we were asked to offer our services to a newly-erected major seminary in Guam.

Guam is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. Like all the other islands in the Pacific, it is passing through a serious cultural transitional process. Secularisation is invading the islands bringing havoc to its former protective social framework. Two of the most visible and heartrending consequences are the high index of teen pregnancy and suicide among youth.

Observing the complex situation of vocations to the priesthood in the innumerable islands of the Pacific, the local Archbishop erected eight years ago a major seminary, the first ever such enterprise in the history of the Marianas that will form priests for the New Evangelisation.

Since I am a carpenter by profession, I was asked to come and help in the construction of the chapel and maintenance of this seminary which today hosts 37 seminarians. Besides, my wife and I help in the religious education of adults in various parishes and in various social activities especially related to broken families and drug addiction.

This contribution of the Mission Fund will not only sustain the seminary and our participation in this enormous task, but it encouraged us strongly to continue this w

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