During assembly on Friday, we were reminded of our Lenten initiative for Caritas this year. The focus is Water for Wellness and is centred around providing clean, disease-free, drinking water for all people. Mrs Trish Ryan, Brisbane director of Caritas, spoke to us about this need and shared with us some startling facts about the lack of fresh water, or indeed any water, in places like Peru in South America. Children will be asked to bring along a gold coin donation in Week 8 and will be given the opportunity to walk a course to a water source to try to get an idea of how many children in the world have to travel each day just to get water for basic needs. Thank you to those students who are working with our Social Justice committee in organising our fund-raising activities. Take a look at the slideshow below of children at St Anthony's walking the course.
Water for Wellness on PhotoPeach
No comments:
Post a Comment