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Somascan Missions Dinner Dance tickets now on sale!

We are incredibly excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for the third Somascan Missions Dinner Dance. Over the past two years, thanks to the generosity of sponsors and benefactors, we have been able to raise over $300,000 which has primarily provided relief for Somascan Communities caring for orphaned youth in Sri Lanka, India, and Mozambique. Together with …

Orphan House Renovations – Kimbulapitiya – Sri Lanka

Due to the success of the Somascan Mission Dinner Dance in February 2022, Somascan Missions have been able to help fund the renovations to house in Kimbulapitiya, Sri Lanka. Due to the existing economic conditions in Sri Lanka, the Somascan Fathers had to postpone the works for a number of months. This particular house will be a new community in …

Miani Meals Food Service

Our Miani Meals Service provides preishable and non pershable groceries to struggling families in the surrounding suburbs of St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Chipping Norton. Starting during the first lockdown in 2020, the food service has since continued to operate thanks to the generosity of our volunteers and Benefactors. We are now in need of non-perishable food items to be …

About the Somascan Fathers

The Somascan Fathers are an Order of Religious Priests and Brothers, formally known as the Order of Clerics Regular of Somasca (CRS). Their founder is Saint Jerome Emiliani, Venetian +1537, and the Universal Patron Saint of Orphans and Youth-in-Need. Saint Jerome Emiliani commenced the ‘Company of the Servants of the Poor’ following his miraculous liberation as a prisoner of war …