A Volleyball Tournament was organized in union with Jaffna District Volleyball Association on February 22 – 25, 2017. Twenty Youth Sport Clubs from 15 villages participated in this tournament. There were 209 boys, age between 17 to 23 played in this match. We want to record here that volleyball is defined as a national sport of Sri Lanka in 1991.
The venue of this tournament is Gnanatheepam, a recently opened Oblate Youth Empowerment Centre, which is a precious gift of Wilde Ganzen (Wild Geese Foundation) and HAVONOS, Dutch organizations, based in the Netherlands, which support the people to develop better future.
This tournament also actualizes one of the deliberations of the 36th OMI General Chapter, viz. the Mission with Youth.
While we congratulate all the players, the runners up, the winners of this tournament we also highly appreciate all those assisted to conduct this tournament and immensely value the untiring effort of Fr. Philip Ranjan Kumar, OMI, the Director of Gnanatheepam.
Father singare was born on 2nd July 1920 at madhalegal. He was from the perishop Saint Thomas madhale in the dioces of jaffna. His parents were bastyam pillai Singh rare and rosama Sandhya pillai he was the elders in the family among four siblings to boys and two girls he had his primary education at Saint Thomas school at madhaghal and his secondary education both at Saint Patrick's college from 1934 to 1936 and at Saint Henry's college atullai from 1970 to 1940 his family was very religious in nature and all his brothers and sisters were strictly formed by the apparents to be pious and will disciplined.
Marudhasan Bose desirers of dedicating his whole life to serve God and his people by becoming an oblite religious priest from his early age he was attack by father is Peter or your mind the recommending oblite and by father beard who was the Paris priest.
