Rosalie Moloney, Principal and pupils of St. Angela's College, Cork, support the mobile phone recycling project to support the MSC missions
We have an arrangement with a waste management company that will take certain mobile phones for recycling and make a donation to us for each phone that has a battery.
If you or your family have any used Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens or Sony mobile phones, and you would like to post them to the address below, we would be delighted to have them. Please do not include anything else, e.g. chargers, in the package. In order to keep our costs down, we will not acknowledge receipt of mobiles.
This recycling scheme is environmentally friendly and it helps our missionaries in poor countries. An added bonus is that phones reconditioned under the scheme are resold cheaply across Africa bringing extra benefits to poor countries. 
Noreen Joyce and pupils of Kilmagner national school donating used mobile phones
Our thanks to the many benefactors who have already posted phones to us. A special thanks to the individuals in companies who have set up collection points for staff to donate their old phones – this is a great facility for staff whilst helping our missionaries.
We would especially welcome offers from schools to set up a collection point within the school for students to donate mobiles for the missions.
Please post the above type mobile phones only to:
Mobile Phone Recycling
Mission Support Centre
P.O. Box 23
Western Road
Cork
Fr. Michael O' Connell receiving a donation cheque from pupils of Kilmyshall national school
Yet another mother prays over her ill child
The AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is absolutely horrific. The African continent has 10% of the world’s population but it has 90% of the world’s AIDS problem. In 2005 over 2.8 million people died with 2 million of these in Sub-Saharan region. 2.3 million children under 15 years are living with HIV with 2 million of these in the Sub-Saharan region. It is estimated that 380,000 children under 15 years died from AIDS in 2005. These figures are mind-boggling.
Fr. Adrian McHugh, msc (South Africa), Fr. Michael O'Connell, msc (Mission Office Director) and the South African Ambassador to Ireland visit Our Lady of Good Counsel School, Ballincollig, Cork, where pupils support our mission projects
There are hundreds of thousands of children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. Children as young as 12 years are left to be the head of their household trying to provide for their younger brothers and sisters; working, scavanging or stealing. Kofi Annan, the previous Secretary General of the UN, described the terrible situation very well in an interview when he said: “It is frightening to visit villages in Africa and see these children and grandparents … there are no parents because they’re gone”. A RTE documentary in 2006 described the situation as “the lost generation”. A whole middle generation of educated and skilled adults have died.
Fr. Adrian McHugh distributes blankets donated by Irish school children
The epidemic affects every parish where MSC minister in South Africa. We have care programmes for orphans and the sick and dying. These include prevention education for youth, foster family care for orphans, support for the sick and dying as well as material support for families where the breadwinner has died. We also provide training programmes, retreats and ongoing support for lay leaders who will provide community ministry to those with HIV and AIDS and those who will assist in leading funeral services.
