CARITAS PROJECT COMPASSION 2020

Your eldest child will have brought home a Project Compassion box for your family, extended family and friends.  We are hoping that as a community we can raise funds for this worthy cause.  Your families Project Compassion boxes should be sent back to school in Week One, Term Two.

At St Mary’s we are promoting the theme, Let's Go Further, and we are running a class competition to generate the children's understanding and interest.  Money for the class boxes should just be brought to school in an envelope and put in the class box.

 

Each week of Lent, we will share the story of another person who always goes further. These stories show how Caritas Australia’s training, development and support have improved their way of life.

   

Twenty-seven-year-old, Phany lives in a village in western Cambodia. Struggling to earn a living as a farmer, she was forced to leave her daughter behind in the village, to take up construction work in the city.  In 2016, Phany joined the Upholding Community Dignity Together program, run by Caritas Australia, in partnership with the Environment Protection and Development Organisation (EPDO). Phany learned new farming techniques, such as a drip irrigation system, which enabled her to get a better yield from her vegetable crops, and to conserve water for drier periods.