b) Collecting Debts: the Provinces are the active agents urging from the
Houses, according to the established timetable, the payment of the advanced
dues that the General Treasurer had previously made for the taxes Irap, Inail...
They should be aware that these expenses are part of the ordinary administration
of the houses.
c) Pension Fund for the old Confreres: It was agreed upon to take into
consideration the possibility of creating a fund for the old Confreres in every
Province so as to provide for treatments and particular needs in one’s own
community or in other places where they may have to be transferred.
8. Professional Formation Center
Both the Provinces have to put to good use the PFC located inside our
Motherhouse in Como, so that all the Italian houses may make use of its
technical formation courses in which the values that refer to the Charism and
BDGM (PEG) are also transmitted.
Our Lady of Hope Delegation
The following new projects are approved:
a) A Day Care Center at Owerri, for the rehabilitation of disabled boys and
girls, depending on the Center of Nnebukwu.
b) Taking charge of the technical school (owned by the Diocese) for poor
girls at Weme near Abor.
3. Diamond Jubilee of the Guanellian presence in Brazil
On 24 October 1947 the Servants of Charity took possession of the first
facility – Cidade dos Meninos (the Boys City) – in the district of Camobi, Santa
Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State, in Brazil. The first confreres who arrived were
Father Giuseppe Trevisan and Bro. Ermenegildo Tosoni, and were coming from
Argentina. Now they are in their eternal bliss.
The “Cidade dos Meninos” was a complex of four little wooden houses
welcoming delinquent boys from the streets of the city.
The first confreres had to endure a lot of suffering in the beginning.
Many days they did not even have the minimum necessary to eat. A
confrere wrote in one of his first letters that they had only a piece of watermelon
a day to satisfy their hunger.
A neighbor told that, at times, he had seen them hunting a kind of rats that
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