Support from the Secretariat for Education and Evangelisation for school strategic reflection

On 13 and 14 May 2022, the Secretariat for Education and Evangelisation was invited by the Provincial Animator of Southern Africa, Br. Norbert Mwila, to participate in the meeting of the Custodians and members of the Council of Schools in order to analyse the strategy being followed in one of the 6 countries that make up the province: South Africa, which has 5 Marist schools with a long tradition and great prestige in the educational system of the country.

Br Mark, Deputy Director of the Secretariat and Javier Llamas, Project Manager of the Marist Schools Network Project, Champagnat Global, shared with the South Africa team experiences and excellent practices that are being carried out throughout the Marist world and that can be a reference when designing the local strategy. Thanks to the technology and the good disposition always found with the Marists of Champagnat, we were able to have enriching experiences of school management, from Australia, with the intervention of the Regional Director of Education, Mark Malloy, from Brazil, with the participation of Brother Natalino Guilherme de Souza, president of the Integrated Network of Basic Education of Marist Brazil, and from Ireland with the participation of Brother P.J. McGowan and Aisling Demaison, Director of Marist Education in the Province of West Central Europe.

It is exciting to see that the challenges we face in our educational and administrative work are increasingly complex, but at the same time the tools and mentality we are developing are also more collaborative and this allows us to have greater collective strength when it comes to solving our challenges. Think globally, act locally, a good practice that will surely bear fruit in the reality of South African schools.