SimiRoma

  Professor Suresh Sundram is Chair and Head, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Director of Research, Mental Health Program Monash Health and Director of Research, Cabrini Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub, Cabrini Outreach in Melbourne, Australia. He has been involved for seventeen years in asylum seeker mental health. He is an expert consultant on asylum seeker and refugee mental health to the UNHCR and has provided similar expert advice to the: UN; UN Commission on Human Rights; Australian Human Rights Commission; Australian Department of Home Affairs; US State Department; the Governments of Papua New Guinea, Republic of Nauru, [...]

    Valdicer Civa Fachi, FMS. Originally from Arvorezinha, RS, Brazil. Marist Province, Brazil, Southern Amazon. Formation: bachelor’s degree in theology from the Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre; Bachelors and Bachelor in Literature, Portuguese/English, from the UNISC (Santa Cruz do Sul), Brazil; Post-graduate degree in University Pastoral Ministry (Theology) at Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá (Colombia); Masters in Mariology (Theology) at Pontifical Faculty Marianum, Rome (not completed). Missionary experience: Teacher; School Director; Popular and parish ministry; Marist Youth Ministry; Coordinator of School, University and Provincial Pastoral; Executive Secretary of UMBRASIL- Marist Union of Brazil; Coordinator of the Inter-American [...]

  Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ, is president of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar. He is the author of Theology Brewed in an African Pot (Orbis Books 2008); Religion and Faith in Africa: Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist  (Orbis Books 2018); and The Pope and the Pandemic: Lessons in Leadership in a Time of Crisis (Orbis 2021). Publications: Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, The Pope and the Pandemic: Lessons in Leadership in a Time of Crisis, Maryknoll NY, Orbis, 2021.  

  Cheryl Lee is currently a consultant with the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei.  Her passion for migrant advocacy comes from her deep solidarity with the poor and an extensive involvement with numerous religious congregations immersed in migrant ministry. She holds an MA degree, majoring in Pastoral Studies, from the Ateneo de Manila University and has undergone the Scalabrini Migration Center “EXODUS” Training Program, in Manila. She has actively worked with vulnerable migrants/refugees through the Malaysian Office of Human Development and in her short mission stints [...]

  I am Yvonne Clémence Bambara from the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. I am originally from Burkina Faso. I have a Master's degree in Social Work from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. I worked in Senegal for 12 years mainly with women in prostitution, accompanying them and helping them with different trainings such as sewing, micro gardening, soap making and micro credit for income generating activities. In Burkina Faso since 2011, I have been working with survivors of sex trafficking, young girls who are victims of forced marriages or unwanted pregnancies [...]

  David Holdcroft currently works as the Professional and Post-Secondary Education Specialist at the international Office of JRS in Rome, Italy. Previously he was Regional Director for JRS in Southern Africa, based in Johannesburg, and directed works for refugees in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Malawi and South Africa. A Jesuit priest, David has degrees in Education, Theology (Masters) and Arts (Music and Geography). His work is to develop organizational strategy in this area, develop technical resources and advise and oversee implementation of the Pathfinder Program. David oversees the pilot programs in Malawi and Kenya and, in 2020, in Jordan. His work extends to [...]