Ranchi: “Youth is the corner stone of any society, more so for the neglected Adivasis ,” says Simon Kurux one of the trainers of three socio-spiritual revival programs recently concluded among the youth of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
More than 1,000 high school tribal students attended the program.
The Kurux Revival Movement of Jharkhand (KRM) and Spiritual Revival Movement, Bangalore (SRM) jointly organized three 3-day socio –spiritual revival programs , July 4-14 in Kurux School Loordippa; Don Bosco School Kereng- both in Jharkhand and in Don Bosco School Jumeikhela in Chhattisgarh.
For the third training program 45 students of tenth and twelfth grades were selected from the three schools. They gathered at Loordippa Kurux School for a further one day orientation program on July 14.
The animators of the program included Br Raji James from Patna, Bro Francis Xavier from Bangalore, and Bro Simon Kurux from Kochi.
Twenty five students selected from these training sessions will participate at a month long training program to be held at SRM Centre, Bangalore in March 2017. In preparation for this another 3 day stay-in youth camp will be organized at Loordippa Kurux School in December.
KRM is the brainchild of Salesian Father Zepherinus Baxla who while still a professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart College, Shillong, returned to his native place and began a school exclusively for Kurux Adivasis with English as first language and Kurux as third language, besides Hindi.
The SRM is a lay Catholic charismatic movement begun 25 years ago for the spiritual uplift of Christians through prayer, the sacraments and the Word of God. It also trains lay leaqders to be agents of transformation of society.
At present SRM is spread over 12 countries in Middle East, Europe and Oceania, besides India.