On Friday 8th October the construction of 141 housing units was officially inaugurated and blessed in the Carmelite parish of St Isidore, Labrador, Philippines. This was one of the hardest hit regions of the Philippines coastline in the floods of 2009. Around 100 parishioners died in the flood and the parish church was turned into a refugee co-ordination centre under the direction of Fr Tony dela Cruz O. Carm., a former provincial commissary of the Philippines. The Carmelite Curia was able to make a donation of 10,000 euros towards the reconstruction project which was blessed by Fr Kevin Alban O. Carm., Bursar General, with the assistance of several Carmelites from Manila, as well as the bursar of the mission in Papua New Guinea. The donation was made possible through the generosity of the Society of the Little Flower and its donors in Britain, Ireland and several European countries. Money for this project was also raised by Third Order groups in the provinces of St Elias, New York, and PCM.

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