From January 2012 to October 2013, Fr. Shanthi Chacko Puthussery, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Secretary for Catholic Youth and Laity conducted 17 parish youth leaders’ leadership trainings in 17 of 22 dioceses in the two countries.
An essential part of the training was actual personal accompaniment of the participants in which they felt safe to share their hearts desires and longing to be better persons in the community and in the Church.
Fr Shanthi also conducted a questionnaire collecting data from 300 young people.
The picture that emerges is that young people are confused and that parishes need to do more for young people of PNG and the Solomons
Out of 230 parishes surveyed, 217 (94. 35%) show practically no regular formation activities happening for the young people at the parish level.
Here is the data collected from his questionnaire
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