Parish Lenten Project 2006

The total amount raised this year was

Once again, thank you to all those who organised fundraising events: the schools, parish groups, individuals and home collecting boxes. When people have so many demands on their resources, it is a great credit to our Parish that everyone is so generous and thoughtful of the needs of those so much less fortunate than ourselves.

We have £2,000 held over from last year, as we have had difficulty obtaining the relevant bank account details for one of the projects. The Treasurer has recently had a final attempt; as this has been unsuccessful, it was decided at the committee meeting last Sunday that the £2,000 would be added to this year’s projects.

Therefore the committee discussed how £14,694.19 should be split between the four main projects and the amount that would be donated to the fifth.

The split is shown below.

The balance will be kept for necessary expenses, e.g. purchase of new collecting boxes.

It is not too soon to start thinking of projects for next year.

The committee gives preference to personal contact with the project from a parishioner so, if you know someone working at grass roots level in the third world, we would love to hear from you.

Also, we would like people with fundraising ability and contacts to start thinking now about what they could do to help. A couple of ideas are in the pipeline.

1. An Auction of Gifts and Promises (can you tap anyone for freebees?)

2. St Patrick’s Night Extravaganza (do you have Irish music, food or prize contacts?)

Look out for details of the AGM at the end of October and come and join us to make a difference.

For further information please contact the parish office.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL SUPPORT

The Beneficiaries

1. Haiti Hospital Appeal: £4,500
   One of the poorest countries in the world - 1 in 4 children die before age 4 due to lack of health care, 70% live below the poverty line. To initially turn a building into a hospital and equip it to provide basic medicines and supplies, to provide health education and a vaccination programme;
2. Fatima Self-help Centre, Bangkok, Thailand: £3,000
   Good Shepherd Sisters centre helping deprived and rejected women and girls in poorest slum areas, providing alternatives to undignified employment and exploitation. Providing education, skills training and employment opportunities enabling them to support themselves and their families;
3. Medical Missionaries of Mary Honduras:£3,000
   Midwives who have expanded their skills into education, helping poor communities to help themselves through education and HIV/AIDS home care programmes, where participants are trained, then set up health programmes in their own villages;
4. Landirani Trust, Malawi:£3,000
   Local group supporting HIV/AIDS orphans. Six centres providing training and self help by building schools, planting crops, caring for livestock;
5. Catholic Association of Tamils, Sri Lanka :£1,000
   Sponsoring tsunami and war-affected displaced children in two orphanages

Details of Fundraising Events

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