Caritas Australia’s annual Lenten fundraising and awareness-raising appeal is an extraordinary, ongoing demonstration of the faith, love and generosity of the Catholic congregation and caring supporters throughout Australia to help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity. Project Compassion demonstrates
Caritas supports long-term development programs in impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, East Timor, Latin America, Indigenous Australia and the Pacific — helping oppressed people to rediscover their dignity by taking greater control over their lives and overcoming poverty.
These resources will help you to embed social justice across the curriculum and to inspire your students to “be more”, for the sake of the poorest in our world.
These resources will help you to embed social justice across the curriculum and to inspire your students to “be more”, for the sake of the poorest in our world.
Catholic Social Teaching covers all spheres of life – the economic, political, personal and spiritual. With human dignity at its centre, a holistic approach to development founded on the principles of CST, is what Pope Paul VI called ‘authentic development’.
Caritas Australia’s annual Lenten fundraising and awareness-raising appeal brings thousands of Australians together in solidarity with the world’s poor to help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity.
These resources have been created for whole school reflections in assemblies and Mass, as well as classroom reflections including a daily prayer for Project Compassion:
These resources have been created for whole school reflections in assemblies and Mass, as well as classroom reflections including a daily prayer for Project Compassion: