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PAGE 2 — The Georgia Bulletin, January 14, 1971
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Epiphany Joys Miss Rome Slum Kids
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ROME (NC) — Epiphany is
the happiest day of the year
for most Italian children, but
for the kids of Rome’s
Acquedotto Felice
shantytown the smiles and
the laughter were
premium this year.
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While other Roman
children were receiving the
traditional presents in the
warmth of their homes of the
Feast of the Epiphany, a
group of boys stood in the
chilling cold in Acquedotto
Felice, with pick-axes and
shovels in hand.
The boys began to knock
down the shell of a newly
constructed building which, if
it had been completed, would
have been the size of a
four-car garage.
All the boys needed to do
was to knock down the four
walls they had built in the
previous weeks. The roof had
not yet been laid. The
building was supposed to be a
trade school workshop for
the boys of the slums.
But then the police gave
orders for demolition because
the boys were building
without a permit from the
city government. If the boys
had ignored the orders it
would have meant that the
priest who leads them would
have to go to court.
Their leader is Father
Lorenzo Sardelli, a young
bearded priest who is well
known in Rome for a school
he started in the slums several
years ago, called “School
725.”
“School 725” is a
barracks-like hut in which the
slum children find refuge
from their squalid homes in
which there are no books, no
adequate lighting and little
atmosphere for studying.
The school has become
very popular, with the
children, crammed together,
elbow to elbow, seated at the
long tables and studying
under the naked light bulbs
that hand from the ceiling.
But the children, especially
the boys, wanted to learn
trades. That is why Father
Sardelli decided to build the
trade workshop. Had the
shop been completed it
would have housed small
forges, lathes and carpenters’
benches.
But when police inspectors
went to the site where the
boys were building the shop
they gave notice that if the
building were not demolished
within six days, Father
Sardelli could be fined
$3,000 and jailed for six
months.
A bitter and disappointed
Father Sardelli later told
newsmen that the police
inspectors called the building
“abusive” and that it was in
violation of building codes.
Black Angel
Stamp Issued
VATICAN CITY (NC) - A
black angel holding a lamp
and a cricifixion scene
surrounded by a flight of
doves will appear on a series
of Vatican stamps marking
the United Nations’
international year for the
battle against racism.
The series of four stamps
will be issued Feb. 2, and will
carry the Pope’s theme of the
1971 World Peace Day: Every
Man Is My Brother.
Two of the series will show
a black angel holding a lamp
as a symbol of the equality of
all races.
The other two in the series
will depict a statue of the
crucifixion surrounded by
doves in flight, symbolic of
the sacrifice of Christ for
peace among men.
The two statues used for
the images of the stamps are
the work of the Italian
Scupltor Corrado Ruffini.
“We are not in favor of
abusiveness,” Father Sardelli
said, “but we are against all
types of abuses, especially the
abuses of the rich.”
He was referring to a
common practice in Rome
whereby contractors
hurriedly build luxury
apartment complexes while
building inspectors look the
other way.
“No 'one takes action
against the rich offenders,”
Father Sardelli said. “.That is
why I asked the mayor of
Rome to come here so that
he can demolish our school.
When he sees that our school
is abusive maybe he will build
a better one that will meet
the standards of the state.”
To build according to
statute specifications would
make the costs far out of
reach for the slum dwellers.
Father Sardelli said that the
construction of the
workshop, up to the time of
the demolition, had cost only
$120.
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PNIEL, South Africa (NC)
— A priest’s family of 18
colored boys has been broken
up after a five-year battle.
The Stellenbosch
Divisional Council ruled that
the colored youths (the term
colored in South Africa
means dark-skinned persons
of mixed races) had to leave
Waterways, a ranch home
near here provided them by
Father Donald Fletcher.
The council said that the
home is in an area in which
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colored persons may not live
and that Father Fletcher did
not have official
authorization to run such an
institution.
The boys -- ranging in ages
from 10 to 16 and mainly
orphans or children from
broken homes - have been
placed temporarily with
friends until the priest finds
them a new home.
“I will scrounge around
and find a new place,” he
promised.
In 1965, the 42-year-old-
priest was doing parish work
in Paarl when he took two
homeless colored boys under
his wing. They were 9 and 13.
He found them scrounging
for food and without any
place to stay.
He put the boys up in the
rectory of the Catholic
church for colored people in
Huguenot for a year, but the
parishioners finally objected,
and he then moved the boys
into the home of a colored
woman. The “family” had by
then increased to six. Father
Fletcher paid for their food.
The group of boys
harbored by Father Fletcher
continued to grow and so did
the problems of financing and
harrassment by the
authorities.
Father Fletcher was
released from parish work to
devote full time to the care of
his boys and he used various
means of raising funds,
including the selling of old
clothes and donating his own
stipends as a priest.
He had frequent brushes
with officials, but he kept his
home going. The authorities
warned the woman caring for
the boys that she could not
take in lodgers and would
lose her home if she kept the
children. Father Fletcher
then rented four rooms of a
house in Newton, near
Wellington, and there
supervised and ran the family
himself.
Father Fletcher wrote to
friends all over the country
for funds while he himself
cooked breakfast for the boys
and supervised the cleaning of
the rooms and making the
beds before they went to
school.
Then came another crisis.
The owner of the house
decided to sell and the
authorities prohibited the
priest from buying the
building on the ground that
hostels were not permitted in
the area.
Father Fletcher borrowed
money from a friend and
bought Waterways. He raised
additional funds and moved
his boys in. A trusteeship was
set up and he was appointed
warden of the new home.
But the divisional council
ruled that the boys had to
leave Waterways. An appeal
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1971
From Port Everglades
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Hanseatic Winter Sailings:
Jarl/I. 11 Days, From $465. To Jamaica, Curacao,
Trmidad, Martinique, St. Thomas.
Jan. 15. 14 Days. From $590. To St. Thomas,
Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, La Guaira (for
Caracas), Curacao, Cristobal, Jamaica.
Jan. 30. 16 Days. From $730. To Jamaica, Cristobal,
Aruba, La Guaira (for Caracas), Trinidad, Barbados,
Martinique, Antigua, St. Thomas.
Feb. 15. 16 Days. From $730. To Jamaica, Cristobal,
Aruba, La Guaira (for Caracas), Trinidad, Barbados,
Martinique, St. Thomas.
March 4. 16 Days. From $730. To Jamaica, Cristobal,
Aruba, La Guaira (for Caracas), Trinidad, Barbados,
Martinique, Antigua, St. Thomas.
March 20, April 4. 14 Days. From $590. Ta St.
Thomas, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, La Guaira
(for Caracas), Curacao, Cristobal, Jamaica
Hamburg Winter Sailings:
Jan. 22. 10 Days. From $480. To St. Thomas,
Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad.
Feb. 1. 10 Days. From $480. To Jamaica, Cristobal,
Curacao, La Guaira (for Caracas).
Feb. 11, Feb. 25. 14 Days. From $670. To St.
Thomas, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, La Guaira
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