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News of the Institute and Lasallian Family
Rome, June 27, 2006 |
 AUSTRALIA - BANKSTOWN - LaSallian Youth Leaders ‘making a difference’: Darren Perrett, Youth Minister at LaSalle College, Bankstown provides this encouraging report: The Lasallian Youth Leaders (LYLs) are in their fifth successful year at LaSalle and are continuing to ‘make a difference’ in the lives of others.
The LYLs work in accordance with the three Lasallian ideals: Faith, Service and Community, and find the time to volunteer for all sorts of service projects.
At Bankstown, they seem to be in everything. They run prayer every Friday in the Brothers’ Chapel, have a meeting every Friday lunchtime, work in the community and local primary schools doing specific activities and always show a great deal of enthusiasm in doing so.
They have also brought the LaSalle Catholic College community closer by bridging the gap between Year 7 and Years 11 and 12. The LYLs ran a class on ‘Change’ in the beginning of Term 1, and keep up their relationship with Year 7 as often as they can. Some are involved in the peer support program, when they go into a Year 7 homeroom and run it for that day.
LYLs also help out on the Lasallian ConneXion nights, which have been a huge success. They ran games and activities for students from Holy Spirit Lakemba, De La Salle Ashfield, and LaSalle Bankstown.
Another project has been a local primary schools’ activity day, with the same sorts of activities and games for the younger grades. The LYLs are planning now on going away for a community building and planning weekend, and are also going to start feeding the homeless in the city.
LaSallian Youth Leaders at Bankstown are working hard to ‘make a difference’ in the lives of the poor and marginalised. More on this: Darren.perrett@lasalle.bankstown.syd.catholic.edu.au.
(Darren Perrett)
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