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The aim of the Justice & Peace Group
is to raise awareness, within our Parish & Community, of humanitarian issues and
to express hope for a better world.
Human life is sacred, and every human-being has the right to live with dignity and freedom, but
realistically the world offers many, a much worse fate & suffering.
For further information please call
JANET BANKS ON
01491 410141
New Members Always Welcome
Disbursement of Funds
In
Nov-2011, £1,000 was transferred to each of the following charities:
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The Jesuit Mission in Zimbabwe
Funds will be split 50/50 between
Silveira House and the Mutemwa
Leprosy Colony.
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Aid to the Church in Need
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Friends of the Holy Land
Justice and Peace Lectures
During 2012, there will be a series of talks from representatives of the
charities we support to tell us more about their work and how the funds we’ve
raised are being used.
Visit by Fr. David Harold-Barry(SJ)
The first of these will take place on
Saturday 14th January & Sunday 15th
January,
when Fr David Harold-Barry(SJ) will be visiting us to talk about his work
at Silveira House, Zimbabwe. He will talk at each of the weekend Masses.
Also following each mass, there will be a reception in the Day
Chapel and Narthex for parishioners to meet Fr David.
Make a note in your diary!
CURRENT J & P PROJECTS
Members
of the J&P Group visited the Reading Drop In Centre before Christmas to
deliver the boxes of provisions collected by our parishioners. Our gifts of
food were gratefully received and it was very interesting to see the work being
done to help the homeless and needy of Reading. During these cold winter months,
warm clothing is desperately needed by these people, so the J&P Group is
launching an APPEAL for clean, warm coats, hats, gloves and scarfs for the
homeless. These items will be collected following masses the last
weekend in January (28/29) for delivery to the DIC the following week.
TOOLS WITH A MISSION
(TWAM)
www.twam.co.uk/
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In many countries of the world people have few skills, little
education and no means of earning a living. A switch from aid dependency to
self sufficiency is impossible without help.
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TWAM started twenty six years ago, and
has since then given this help by collecting and refurbishing tools and
equipment no longer required in the UK and sending them overseas.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD (OCC)
http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/
Operation Christmas Child is the largest children's Christmas project in the
world, run by the Christian charity Samaritan's
Purse.
In 2010, they celebrated 20 years of this special shoebox appeal, which has
already brought joy into the lives of over 80 million children worldwide.
In its simplest form, it is all about a gift – given by you to a child in need.
You wrap and pack it, we check and send it, and our partners overseas deliver
it. It’s that simple.
How you helped! ......52
boxes filled with gifts and goodies have been collected from the Parish to send
to disadvantaged children around the world. This is a tremendous achievement, so
many thanks to all those individuals and families who supported this project!
To further raise awareness next year, it has been suggested that
for our 2012 launch, we have a speaker from OCC and raise our target to 100!
CRAFTY LADIES
The Crafty Ladies are really keen to knit puppets,
pencil cases etc for the OCC shoe boxes and to sew for the TWAM initiative (tool
rolls, sewing bags, scissors and needle cases etc) and the Christmas Fayre.
SILVEIRA HOUSE,
ZIMBABWE
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Fr. David Barry's Apprenticeship Programme |
