Alexandre
Tomboly Junior:
“Our
work is focused on
providing assistance to
and evangelising low
income families”
Our
fellow Spiritist worker
from Brazil’s São Paulo
state talks about the
beautiful work carried
out at the Spiritist
Centre Alvorada Nova,
founded 15 years ago in
the seaside city of São
Vicente
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Alexandre Tomboly Junior
(photo) is the
president of the
Christian Spiritist Home
Alvorada Nova (New
Dawn), which he found
with his wife, Célia
Tomboly, and some
friends. He got involved
in Spiritism in 1988 and
has never looked back.
The Spiritist Centre he
founded has an important
programme of assistance
to children and family
in
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deprived
areas of São
Vicente. |
Tell us a bit more about
the beginning of the
Spiritist Centre and
your main priorities.
The Centre was founded
on January 10th
1997. Even though it
provides the services
usually associated with
Spiritist Centres
(healing, study groups
etc.) it is focused
really on providing
assistance to low income
families in the region
and giving them access
to the Gospel of Christ.
We provide support in
many areas, inclusive
advice on drug
addiction.
Where is the Spiritist
Centre located and how
did you get the
resources to buy the
land and for the
construction of what is
really a comfortable and
spacious building?
We received donations,
we raised money through
the sale of CDs, we had
fund-raising events and
my pension goes entirely
to fund all the work
needed. Our facilities
comprise 1,000sq metres
of built in area,
including 10 rooms for
studies of the Gospel, a
canteen, video rooms,
lecture room for 500
people, two kitchens and
other rooms, including
admin offices. We also
have two rooms for
people to sleep if they
need, a living room and
a sewing workshop.
How many children to you
help on a daily basis?
What activities do you
provide to them?
Two hundred children
attend our
evangelisation classes.
We also help them with
the school homework,
with extra classes to
help at school, we
provide school books and
uniforms.
And what work do you do
with their families?
We donate food, we give
them advice on family
life and help them set
up their weekly Gospel
in the Home routine.
Nova Alvorada is based
in a very deprived area.
What are the main
challenges that stem
from that?
In a deprived area as
such, you have the lack
of basic infrastructure,
you also have a great
number of single
mothers, abandoned by
the father of their
children. But the worst
problem we face is drug
addiction, which is
everywhere in the area,
a real plague.
What experience would
you like to highlight
from all these years
working in the area?
Whole families have been
rescued. And there were
also individuals who
were considered lost
cases and have also been
recovered for society.
When you look at the
nice building you have
there, in contrast with
all the poverty around
it, you cannot help to
compare this to one of
the advanced outposts of
the Spiritual World
mentioned in so many
Spiritist books. What is
your view on that?
Our benefactors have
always advised to build
something that would
lift the spirits of
those who come in,
making them feel like
coming back again and
again. When they walk
through our door they
get straight away an
“energetic bath”, which
makes them feel better
and works as healing.
What is the contact for
those who want to help
your group with
donations?
Please phone us on the
numbers on our website,
www.alvoradanova.org.com.br.
We would welcome and put
up anyone who wants to
come in person to our
Spiritist Home.
(1)
Is there anything else
you would like to add?
Yes, I would like to say
how grateful we are to
God and to all the
generous Spiritual
Benefactors who guide
us, enabling us through
the volunteer work in
such a blessed
organisation to pay back
some of the debts we
contracted in our past
lives. Thank you very
much!
(1) Click on
http://youtu.be/Dj4qmoXvipg
and you will hear a
beautiful song and get
to know a bit of the
work done at Alvorada
Nova.
