Ecuador - We will try to ensure an education, but these people need to rise again

04 May 2016

(ANS - Manta) - It seems that even in the midst of so much pain there is good news that gladdens and encourages the people. "A 72-year old man was saved 13 days after the earthquake in Ecuador." 660 people have died because of the earthquake "including some of our students," reports Fr Luis Mosquera, Rector of the Salesian House in Manta. According to the latest data, there are still a thousand people accommodated in shelters in Manabi. Most of these people have lost everything, absolutely everything.

Fr Mosquera expresses the commitment to stay close to the people, and to try to ensure the education of the children and young people who have lost everything.

The Salesian community in Manta runs the San José Educational Unit in the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary in Tarqui, as well as the San José Oratory and the retreat house in Crucita. The school building has been damaged and the 1,700 students now have no opportunity to study. The parish Church cannot be used and so the Eucharist is celebrated in the square, and among the people in the neighbourhoods.

"It is critical for us to motivate each other and to be able to live through this situation with faith and hope, together with the people. It is a tragedy that has harmed us greatly but we maintain hope in God. These people need to rise again," he said.

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