Dearest Brothers and Lasallian Partners in East Asia,
Today we celebrate the gift of St. John Baptist de La Salle to the Church and the world at a time when, painfully, more than 1.5 billion children and youth of school-age are currently out-of-school. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, severely affected our way of life and has created such a disruption in our educational systems that we have yet to ascertain its long-lasting effects on learning, on school operations, but more importantly on the lives of young people.