Helping to solve critical water needs in Kiribati
Marella Rebgetz SGS
There aren’t too many nuns who are also water engineers. In a video report from Sean Dorney, the ABC’s Pacific Correspondent, find out how Good Samaritan Sister, Marella Rebgetz is helping to solve Kiribati’s critical water needs as a water engineer.
Since their arrival in the early 1990s, Australian Sisters of the Good Samaritan have become increasingly attuned to the distinct challenges facing Kiribati, a remote nation of 33 low-lying coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, and together with their I-Kiribati sisters, they are responding where they can.
Originally from north Queensland, Marella Rebgetz first lived in Kiribati from 2000 until 2002 before returning in 2008. She brings vital skills and experience as a water engineer to a country very vulnerable to climate change.
View Sean Dorney’s report here.
You can also read a transcript of the report on the ABC’s Radio Australia website.
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May God continue to bless your work with the poor, Marella.
Marella – how good is this!! I was delighted to come across this report!
All strength & blessings to you!
Warm wishes,
Jill
Great work Marella – good also to see our ABC is also recognising the people and the country of Kiribati. It is about time the whole world knew about the people and the problems. You are doing a great job.
Thank you so much, Marella, for sharing your life-giving work with us.
Dear Marella, I’m sure your own sparkling spirit is as delightful to the people
as the sparkling waters you endeavour to preserve for them. May God bless and refresh you all, and crown your efforts with enduring success.
We are all proud of the effort you are making for the people of Kiribate and for our Mother earth. May all your efforts be blest.
Fantastic, Marella but also so sad to see that the people of Kiribati are suffering such loss of good water and probably their future there. The young people are to be commended and encouraged.
Marella, thanks for the work/ministry you doing with the water table. You are truly responding to an “urgent social need” of this country Kiribati. Surely in this ministry your identity as a Good Samaritan, in the sense of gospel parable, is clear. It is prophetic! Marie O’Connor.