On 23rd October 2018, Old Boys' Association, Loyola School, Trivandrum (LOBA) handed over uniform materials worth Rs. 1.3 Lakhs to Mr. V.D. Satheesan, MLA of North Paravoor Constituency, who collected it on behalf of St. Sebastian's HSS, Gothuruth, one of the Schools which was badly affected by the recent floods. This is part of a joint ongoing initiative by LOBA and NGO, 360 Degree, of Gautam, (also a Member of LOBA).

Thanks to LOBA President Ram Mohan, who released the necesssary funds. Tomson, EC Member, LOBA, helped arrange the materials and also provided the car and driver. LOBA Past President and JAAI GC Member - Kerala Province Pradeep Kumar and Gautam spoke about LOBA and our efforts during the occasion.

The Regional football tournament was held on 26th and 27th July on the football ground of St. Xavier’s School, Sahibganj.

The Senior category consisted of four teams from Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Ranchi and Bhagalpur Zones and Junior teams consisted of five teams from Ranchi, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Deoghar and Bhagalpur Zones.

The teams were divided into two pools for each category and senior team had knock out system and junior league system. The opening ceremony began at 10.00 am on 26th July and Sr. Amrita, the Zonal coordinator of Bhagalpur was the chief guest and Dr. Ranjit was the chief guest for the closing ceremony on 27th July.

After a huge success of 2 seasons of DOX Cricket Tournament, the Executive team decided to start DOX Football League to the annual DOX calendar.

DOX Football League (DFL) would be conducted professionally with proper Logistics & infrastructure and will be facilitated by the DFL Subcommittee, which comprises of volunteers from DOX. The Event is planned on 4th & 5th August, which is a weekend at St. Xavier’s School, Doranda.

Convenor for the Event is Mr Manish Kumar and Co Convenor is Mr Vishal Patodia.

Team Owners: Mr Vishal Jain, Mr. Taranbir Singh Sahni, Mr. Alok Minocha, Mr. Abhishek Victor, Mr. Sanika Soy, Mr. Piyush Agarwal

Name of Teams: Gonzaga United , Xavier’s Pride, Denobili Eagles, John De Britto FC, Loyola Rangers, and Berchman’s Rovers.

26th May 2018 witnessed a joint activity of Jesuit Alumni /ae of Kerala (JAAK) with other voluntary Organizations.  Every year, every single one in Helping Hands Organization (H2O) come together to begin the new academic year, with a little bit of hope to bring in to hundreds of underprivileged children, by providing them with basic school needs and clothing. Additionally, this year H2O also introduced the Me, The Change Notebooks – an initiative to create and inculcate a culture of doing good deeds, however small, every day and documenting the same. The distribution of these notebooks during the event, encourage the children to document their good act, or acts of being an active citizen, from day 1.

This year, H20 distributed study materials to 270 children, from backgrounds of little privilege from the wards of Kadinamkulam Panchayat. H2O is looking at providing school kits to 135 beneficiaries, soon.