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六月二日(星期六)下午，金妍兒到訪首爾慈幼會省會院，與南蘇丹傳教士 Vincenzo Donati 神父及 Giacomo Comino 修士會面。她私人捐出7千萬南韓圜（約4萬7千歐羅），援建其中一所學校。 金妍兒向他們表示：「一年前我曾到訪多哥，為取得南韓平昌舉行冬季奧運的支持。我感到需要援助當地兒童。我亦願意獻上這小小的支援。」 Dontai 神父深切感謝她，並表示南蘇丹其中一所學校，將以金妍兒命名，同時請求這位運動員於學校落成後，到訪當地。 金妍兒於 2008 年受洗成為天主教徒，取了聖名 Stella。她之前曾作過慷慨善舉：2009 年 10 月，她捐贈她發表作品所得的收益，價值約250萬歐羅。 Donati 神父與 Comino 修士，曾在南韓推行了超過 20 年的傳教工作，現在返回當地，請求批准到南蘇丹傳教。Comino 修士解釋說：「我們將善用慈幼會工作的經驗，按照教區的指示管理學校，負責保養建築物及招聘教師。」 南蘇丹計劃僅為興建小學。包括南蘇丹在內的東非會省長上 Gianni Rolandi 神父，向傳教服務新聞通訊社解釋興建小學的原因：「這是基於南蘇丹幾乎缺乏任何基建，這個僅一年歷史的國家，內戰傷痕尚未痊癒：人們可以興建的，僅是基礎建設。」 Olympic Champion funding a school in Southern Sudan (ANS - South Korea –Seoul, 6 June 2012) – Kim Yu-na, the Olympic and World Figure Ice-Skating Champion, has given a donation to the Salesians to open a school in Southern Sudan. In the new African State the Salesians are intending to build many new elementary schools. Last Saturday afternoon, 2 June, Kim Yu-na visited the Salesian Provincial House in Seoul and met Fr Vincenzo Donati and Bro Giacomo Comino, both Salesian missionaries in Southern Sudan. She gave them 70 millions of South-Korean won, (about 47,000 euro) personally financing the building of one of these schools. “"I had a chance to visit Togo a year ago as part of efforts to win support for Korea's bid for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and I felt the need to help out children there," Kim told them. "I want to offer what little support I can," she added. Fr Donati thanked her profusely and said one of the schools to be built in Southern Sudan will be named after Kim and asked the athlete to come visit the school after it is completed. Kim Yu-na became a Catholic convert in 2008, taking the Christian name Stella. She has made other generous donations before: in October 2009 her published gifts amounted to about 2,5 million euro. Fr Donati and Bro Comino, who had both dedicated about twenty years as missionaries in South Korea, returned there to seek support for the missionary work in Southern Sudan. “We will make use of our Salesian experience,” – explained Bro Comino – “and then we will put the schools at the disposal of the dioceses, with responsibility to look after the buildings and find teachers.” The project in Southern Sudan is for the building of just elementary schools. Fr Gianni Rolandi, Superior of the East Africa Province (AFE), including Southern Sudan told the MISNA Agency the reason: “This choice is the result of there being an almost total lack of infrastructure in Southern Sudan, an independent country scarcely a year old where the wounds of civil war are still open: one can only begin by building the foundations.” |
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