THAILAND - Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, La Salle Sampran Community in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand celebrates the Songkran this year. Songkran is a famous annual Thai water festival that marks the beginning of the Thai traditional New Year. The candidates prepared activities that formally started with Thai prayer and chants. Then, the adult members of the community, Br. Joseph Klong FSC, Br. Eugene de Luna FSC, and the house gardener gave their new year messages to all.

MALAYSIA - On 15th April 2021, representatives from the Board of Governors of St Xavier’s Institution, Penang presented about RM13,000.00 worth of grocery vouchers to about 130 of our most underprivileged children from our three St Xavier’s schools in Penang.

PHILIPPINES - This reliquary statue, holding a bone fragment (ex ossibus relic) of St. John Baptist de La Salle, was carved by Jayson Taguyungon from Hungduan, Ifugao. It measures 3 feet in height and executed in acacia wood. The work features De La Salle with two Kalinga children in traditional clothing. A gift of the Philippine Lasallian Family to the people of Magsilay in Pasil, Kalinga, it will be enshrined in their chapel dedicated under the patronage of De La Salle.

On 15th April, the LEAD District Council met online once again to discuss matters related to the District.

The month of April witnessed 33 Young Brothers from LEAD renewing their temporary vows.