Catholic Volunteers help out in Solomon Islands

Friday, July 12th, 2013

The seven Catholic Australian volunteers have completed their one week visit at Visale parish in North West Guadalcanal.

During their time here the volunteers did alot of renovation work at the Visale secondary school and the Visale clinic which was built way back in 1960 and was named St Vincent clinic.

The renovation work included painting, repair of window frames with the replacement of new louver glasses.

They also trained the Visale youths how to do community work.

A total of 30 local youths were involved with the Australian volunteers. Read More

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