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CCP Alumni: Br. Fortune Update "Safeguarding is a Ministry"
I have been involved to a greater extent in the work around Safeguarding. I now see it more than just an obligation or a responsibility but more of a calling and I now see and take Child Safeguarding as a Ministry.
I have now moved to Cape Town where I am greatly involved in Social Advocacy and re awakening Child Rights and Safeguarding issues to students of our college here and I have also started doing some work in the same area with the Archdiocese of Cape Town Education Secretariat. I still continue with my regional commitments to keeping children safe in all our Marist Institutions and Dioceses in the region. To date I have conducted workshops to Regional Seminaries, Catholic Schools, Catholic Religious and Diocesan Priest upon requests from the Archbishop of Harare. I have also run workshops in Religious Formation Houses. In brief this is what I have been up to in this Ministry. I am rolling out a plan to train Designated Child Safeguarding Persons in all the 23 Marist Educational Institutions in 6 countries.
I feel that we need to strongly move from policy to practice in terms of issues to do with Child Safeguarding and we cannot wait.
—Br. Fortune
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Bro. Fortune presenting to the Conference of African Marist Superiors on Child Safeguarding in February 2018.