Mar Peter-Raoul, Ph.D.
My blogs
| Occupation | Faculty/Filmmaker/Members of Kairos Beloved Community/Calcutta marginalized and humanitarians |
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| Location | Poughkeepsie/Binghamton/Williamsburg/Calcutta, New York State/Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | The Calcutta Project is a team project of the Marist Praxis Project for Public/Global Citizenship and Campus Ministry at Marist College together with members of the Beloved Community in Binghamton, NY. The blog shares the team's experiences attempting solidarity with marginalized mothers and children living on the streets of Calcutta,and establishing in partnership with both these mothers and Calcutta humanitarians on-going projects. Team members: Jamie Williams, filmmaker, Campus Ministry; Diya Wadhwa, translator, Global PR; Mar, faculty, author, resident founder of the Beloved Community House; Josiah Eck (18), Jorden Eck (16), Colin Larnerd (16), members of the Beloved Community, creating film clips for MySpace, contributing advanced technology, and participating in on-going service. Calcutta partners: Mothers - Azu, Janahara, Annie; Margaret Merida, Board member of the Calcutta YWCA; and Christopher Ratan Das, working with Mother Teresa's sisters, teaching blind children, and providing for those living on the street. |
| Interests | The team wants to continue work with mothers and children in great need on the streets of Calcutta/Kolkata, learning how it is with them, and what we might do together to alleviate suffering and want. while in Calcutta, we inaugerated a lunch program, provided clothes for children begging for clothes, started projects to send children to school, provided supplies to bettter lives of those living at a city dump, and initiated entrepreneurial opportunities for mothers to change the conditions keeping them in poverty. |