Archbishop Leo Cornelio asked the stakeholders of the school to take up the challenges of Covid -19 and live up to the expectation of the society as all schools are gearing for new openings for the exams after prolonged closing of the schools due to pandemic situation.
Addressing the students and the parents in an informal chat with the media persons, he said that since March our schools have been closed due to pandemic fear. It is the need of the hour to open the schools to teach the students how to face the Covid -19 challenges to resolve various issues related with education and mental health. Issues will always be there in society. We need courage to turn the problems into opportunities, he said. The missionaries run many schools and colleges because education is the important apostolate we carry out apart from the health care and social service according to the need of people and place he added.
He asked the parents to send the students to schools without fear. He said “let us start our normal life going to the office, going to schools, meeting people, while keeping the security dimension and maintaining social distances. In this way, we can begin normal life and this would be my wish in the year 2021.
