ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Seeking solutions together
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 1 Tutu ana te puehu Stirring up the dust Lebanon Afghanistan
Nepal
Niger Palestine Philippines Pakistan
SUDAN Darfur
KENYA Guatemala Cambodia
Tanzania
Timor Leste
Where we worked in 2013
2 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 About us Our Vision Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is Inspired and guided by the Gospels and the New Zealand Catholic Bishops the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, Conference agency for justice, peace we work to eliminate injustice and poverty. and development. Caritas is the Latin This will be accomplished through focusing word for love, Caritas is love in action. our resources on clear priorities and goals, Caritas works to make a difference in and weaving together integral human the lives of people living with poverty development, advocacy, education, relief or injustice. We deliver aid, support and rehabilitation. development and work for justice around the world and at home in New Zealand. Our Values We are part of Caritas Internationalis, Compassion and empathy – Aroha a global confederation of over 160 Human dignity – Te mana i te tangata Catholic aid, development and social Equality – Ōritetanga WEST PAPUA justice agencies working in over 200 Hope – Tūmanako countries and territories. Justice – Tika PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Solomon Islands Our Mission Our Strategic Priorities Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will be Addressing poverty, environmental justice, Samoa known as love in action. We unite with indigenous peoples, crisis response, Vanuatu communities, especially in the parishes, awareness and connection. colleges, marae, religious orders and schools of Aotearoa and Oceania to Our Way of Being Tgon a overcome poverty, protect lives and Within Caritas and in all our work, we relieve suffering. seek to be the hands, ears, eyes and mouth of Christ; formed by his love and heart, we are ready to serve, to forgive and to speak with patience, wisdom, gentleness and perseverance. Aotearoa New Zealand Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 1 Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 1 Contents
About Caritas 1 From the Director 3 Addressing poverty 4 Environmental justice 14 Indigenous peoples 16 Crisis response 18 Awareness & connection 22 Summary financial statements 28 From the Chair 32
Rose Tam working on an outboard motor at the St Peter’s Rural Training Centre in Gizo, Solomon Islands. Adrian Heke. From the Director
Looking back over the highlights of representation from Oceania in the 2013 I am reminded of many moments Vatican and reminded us of our call of grace and love. to respond to those on the margins and peripheries. Advocacy and Research Manager Lisa Beech and I appeared before a We were overwhelmed by donations parliamentary select committee regarding from across our Catholic communities changes to state housing policy with – parishes, schools and religious Lamepasola Timu from Christchurch. communities – in responding to Lamepasola, a young mother, spoke disasters in the Philippines and Syria. passionately about her community. I visited partners in Papua New Guinea, She said that Housing New Zealand Tonga and Fiji and discovered the needed to take into account how their joy and long term benefits of our It has been a privilege to lead policies would affect whole communities development programmes first hand. Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand over rather than look at single households This annual report tells the stories of the past year. in isolation. hope that we have created together. In 2013 we sought to transform our We welcomed the President of Caritas Thank you for working with us. organisation to better meet the needs Internationalis, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez of those living in poverty and affected Maradiaga to Aotearoa in October. Caritas by disasters. Through a process of staff spoke with him about the work we discernment and reflection, we do and gained his insights from his role restructured the organisation so that we as Chair of the Pope’s new influential can achieve our strategic priorities over Council of Cardinals. Cardinal Maradiaga Julianne Hickey the coming years. stressed the importance of having more Director, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 3 OCEANIA
Addressing The New Zealand Catholic Bishops poverty Conference has encouraged Caritas to have a particular responsibility for the people of Oceania and make our nearest neighbours a priority in our work addressing poverty. Across the Pacific hardship affects between 20 and 40 per cent of households.
Tgon a In Tonga, a microenterprise programme is run in partnership with Caritas Tonga, with funding from the New Zealand Government. Funds have been lent for tapa cloth making, mat weaving, pig farming, peanut farming, kava farming and yam farming. Caritas Tonga also continues to build the capacity of the community members in business management skills, sustainable agriculture and livestock tending.
A Caritas supported tapa making group in Ma’ufanga, Nuku’alofa, Tonga. Leo Duce/Caritas. 4 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 Solomon Islands CASE STUDY: Solomon islands Our work in Solomon Islands is going from strength to strength. Throughout Access to water saves time 2013 we deepened our relationships Maria lives in the village of Niu Kaloka, with the Catholic dioceses of Auki in Solomon Islands. She is 16 years old and Gizo, through supporting early and lives with her family and will do so childhood teacher training and initiating until she leaves for further study or to the second phase of a water supply get married. Her father has disabilities project. We also received initial approval which keep him from working full time, from the New Zealand Government for but he supports his family by fishing a project that will see Caritas working and growing a vegetable garden. with New Zealand based agencies to Maria’s grandmother lives with the strengthen infrastructure and improve family and it is Maria’s job to take care of teaching quality within rural training her and help with her younger brothers. centres in Solomon Islands. Niu Kaloka is in a group of six villages that shared only a few water taps which were built in 1970 and desperately in need of an upgrade. There were huge Maria washing clothes using the new water queues at the taps and it could take system. Adrian Heke. up to 20 minutes to fill a single bucket of water. Caritas upgraded the water Now, there are no queues and a bucket system and has provided 17 new taps. can be filled in minutes. Maria and other women in the village who spent hours at the taps, say they now have free time to spend with their friends. Maria with her friend enjoying hanging out in her new found leisure time. Adrian Heke. Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 5 Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 5 Papua New Guinea In Papua New Guinea, the dioceses of Kimbe, Kavieng and Bougainville have implemented the first year of a three- year New Zealand Government funded programme entitled: Sustainable Agriculture and Community Resilience. Crop diversification, fishery activities and market access will help 4,000 rural people generate sustainable incomes and provide water and sanitation to improve health outcomes. Caritas also maintained a partnership with Caritas Papua New Guinea and pursued dialogue for longer term capacity development support and West Papua social justice advocacy. We re-engaged Within a beautiful, yet difficult Caritas Programmes Coordinator with the Centre for Environmental Law environment, Caritas has continued Leo Duce (left) with community leaders at a and Community Rights, for potential cacao plantation in Vona village, Kimbe Diocese, its work to strengthen the Justice and environmental advocacy work in Papua New Guinea. Vona is one of the villages Peace offices of the Catholic dioceses in the Sustainable Agriculture and Community the future. in West Papua. This network works to Resilience Programme. JULIANNE HICKEY/CARITAS promote the social, environmental and economic rights of the people of West Papua, particularly the indigenous people of this land, who may soon become a minority.
6 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 Aotearoa New Zealand
BringING the voice of affected SUPPORTING REFUGEE communities to parliament FAMILY REUNIFICATION Caritas spoke at Parliament with a Refugees resettled in New Zealand delay a successful integration into Christchurch community affected often face a long and difficult task to their new home communities. In 2013 by earthquake damage and further bring together their families. It can Caritas expanded support to local weakened by decisions to permanently be overwhelmingly expensive and groups working to reunite refugee relocate long-standing tenants difficult to work through complex families, by supporting the work of during repair work. The legislation immigration processes to bring loved the Wellington and Auckland Refugee responded to New Zealand’s housing family members to New Zealand. Family Reunification Trusts. crisis by speeding up Council consent This can add to their trauma and processes and expanding the role of non-government sector housing Lisa Beech, Lamepasola Timu and Julianne Hickey before speaking to the parliamentary select providers. Caritas welcomed a committee about changes to state housing policy. C aTHY Bi/ aritas. willingness to address a shortage of low-cost housing, but only if this extended and expanded current provision by the State and private sector, rather than replacing it. Caritas expressed concerns about reducing the housing security of all Housing New Zealand tenants by making all tenancy agreements reviewable. We showed that assessment only on a household by household basis could overlook the impact on communities as a whole.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 7 CASE STUDY: Aotearoa New Zealand
Advocating for New Zealand’s poorest families As well as publicly speaking out for “More than what I have learned about the poorest New Zealanders to be the operation of the benefit system taken into account in decision making, has been the absolute awareness and Caritas joined with representatives certainty that God counts every tear of Diocesan Justice and Peace that they have shed, that Christ walks Commissions and members of the with them every step of the long walk Society of St Vincent de Paul to through the bureaucracy, that the advocate for beneficiaries at the New Spirit surrounds them with love and Lynn Work and Income office. compassion. Helping with the Benefit Impact feels not so much an act of Over three days in September 2013, 30 service as an act of worship.” benefit advocates from a wide range of community organisations worked with Lisa Beech, Caritas Advocacy and 257 beneficiaries at a Benefit Impact Research Manager organised by Auckland Action Against Poverty. Caritas joined in assisting Caritas’ Advocacy and Research Manager people who were missing out on Lisa Beech working with a woman at the Benefit basics that other New Zealanders Impact in Auckland. Mary Betz/Auckland take for granted. Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.
8 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 Tanzania to earn extra income. Ongoing advocacy AFRICA for women’s rights, continuing training and The Community Research and securing access to land also help ensure Improvements in key indicators of Development Services (CORDS) is a food availability even during lean years. poverty and inequality are evident Maasai organisation working among across Africa. Caritas Aotearoa New Maasai pastoralist communities in The ICDP advocated for the Maasai to Zealand works in Kenya and Tanzania northern Tanzania. The first year of retain their pastoral land which was through well-established partnerships the three year Integrated Community being threatened in 2013 by proposed and existing Church networks, where we Development Programme (ICDP) government legislation and land sale. promote sustainable livelihoods was completed in March 2013. This Caritas supported their efforts and the programme promotes health and Tanzanian Government has reversed and human rights. education, while creating opportunities this intention. Kenya Maasai herders in northern Tanzania. Mark Mitchell/Caritas. In Kenya, Caritas has worked with Chiga Parish in western Kenya since 2006 to support guardians of children and children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS. This programme promotes sustainable livelihoods to address community need. It supports families caring for children orphaned by HIV/ AIDS to provide for their families through better farming practices and small business development. The programme also tackles education and the medical needs of the children. The programme came to the end of a three-year phase in July 2013. Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 9 Timor Leste Asia In Timor Leste, Caritas’ long-time partner Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has a Hamahon Feto Timor (HAFOTI) continues strong focus in Asia, working primarily to support women in small businesses. with rural communities to reduce The pull out of the United Nations from poverty. Caritas has helped improve Timor Leste at the end of 2012 impacted agricultural methods, opened up the market, but HAFOTI worked with women to meet local market demands marketing opportunities, increased and increased the number of shops income-generation activities and selling products made by the women’s supported healthcare and education. network. New products include bread, With funding from the New Zealand cakes, coconut oil, tamarind sweets Government we started several new and marmalade. projects in 2013. Radio Timor Kmanek (RTK) has continued to develop relevant and informative radio programmes which give the people a voice. Holding the government Members of a HAFOTI women’s group in to account, RTK shares justice issues to Liquiçá District, Timor Leste. Coconuts are grown in the back garden and used to make virgin ensure that Timorese people are aware coconut oil to sell through HAFOTI. of the constitution, their legal rights and Anno a R bertson/Caritas. their human rights. In 2013, Caritas supported Caritas Dili with a small grant towards their rural development programme which focused on increasing food security and reducing vulnerability to climate change.
10 | Caritas Annual Report 2012 Cambodia Afghanistan density by 82 per cent, formed five marketing clusters to enable farmers Caritas’ Cambodian partner, A three-year project in Bamyan, to sell both farm and off-farm products Development and Partnership in Afghanistan working with rural and formed 23 community-based Action, started work to enhance communities to strengthen agricultural schools - which have 73 per cent of participation in the farm-to-market production, improve pastureland their rolls filled with girl students. chain, with New Zealand Government for livestock and improve access to This project was in partnership with funding. The project works with small primary education, ends this year. American Caritas sister agency – scale farmers growing rice, maize, soya To date we have increased pasture Catholic Relief Services and the bean, cassava, vegetables and fruits New Zealand Government. for consumption and sale. Farmers work together to increase quality and Nepal quantity of produce for sale, address transport and storage challenges, bring In Nepal, we started a new project economies of scale in sourcing inputs working with Caritas Nepal to improve and marketing produce, and improve the management and operations bargaining and negotiation skills. of local co-operatives, targeting poor, low-caste and female-headed A farmers group in Cambodia have success households. Members can take out after trialling a new and better rice variety. small loans to start or improve their Nick Borthwick/Caritas. businesses and livelihood activities and they also use the co-operative as a place to save money. Livestock training, vet services, village health workers, child nutrition and a plant nursery have been some of the benefits that have come out of the co-operatives.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 11 Palestine In Palestine, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is providing quality healthcare and health education in Gaza and the West Bank in partnership with Caritas Jerusalem. Prioritising health in schools through screenings, dental checks and health lessons has helped create more positive behaviours in children, who are also demonstrating improved personal hygiene and healthier eating habits. A visit to Palestine last year revealed how the project has not only increased access for women to health care services but has encouraged women to play an active role in raising awareness of health issues in their local communities. In the last two years over 26,000 patients have been treated.
12 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 CASE STUDY: Palestine
Health education gains 450 health lessons have been carried traction in Palestine out in 10 schools in Gaza and the Young students at Shuqba Girls’ School West Bank, for over 9,700 students. crowd around the bathroom sinks with One student, after learning about their brand new toothbrushes and teeth-brushing, insisted his parents toothpaste. For many of the students buy toothbrushes for the whole this is first time they had ever held family. Following on from the lessons a toothbrush. Since the start of the on nutrition, students started asking project in September 2011, more than for healthier food and advocating for the school canteen to sell healthy food. The principal of Shuqba Girls’ Students at the Shuqba Girls’ School learning the importance of brushing their School described the changes she had teeth. Anno a R bertson/Caritas. seen in her students: ‘There is better personal hygiene, the food they bring to school is clean, well-wrapped and healthy. Many students are going home and showing their families what they have learnt.’
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 13 Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 13 Caritas is concerned at the impact of changing environments on people’s Environmental lives. We have specific programmes that justice address this issue in Tonga. We are also interested in being involved in projects that are concerned with conserving our natural resources here in Aotearoa New Zealand. This is in line with the Catholic social teaching principle of stewardship.
Tgon a The effects of coastal erosion, water salination, soil degradation and changing weather patterns are a reality in Tonga. These especially impact the communities on the islands Ha’apai and Vava’u. There is a need to build our and Caritas Tonga’s understanding and engagement towards environment change issues. Therefore in 2013 we began supporting a Caritas Tonga Climate Change Officer, who is working with local communities to raise awareness of changes in the environment and research methods of mitigation in W hale sighted during a Whale Watch trip in order to develop an action plan. Kaikoura. C aTHY Bi/ aritas. 14 | Caritas Annual Report 2012 In December 2013 a four-month involved in decisions that affect their to ensure the wellbeing of communities drought in central Tonga put stress livelihoods and ignoring their role as and their environment now and for on drinking water supplies already kaitiaki (guardians) of the land and sea future generations. We opposed diminished by saltwater intrusion. in their traditional area. proposed changes to the purpose Caritas, in response to residents’ Caritas also submitted through the and principles of the Act which would concerns, provided a mix of traditional process reviewing the Resource reduce environmental considerations, water collection systems and Management Act that all environmental including the proposed removal of the commercial water tanks to ensure decisions must be carefully considered ‘ethic of stewardship’. drinkable water for more than 2,400 people in five acutely affected villages.
Aotearoa New Zealand In September 2013, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand was approached by members of the hapū of Ngāti Kurī in Kaikōura, concerned about the impact deep-sea oil exploration may have on their community. Caritas wrote to government ministers expressing deep concern about the process of decision- making that removed oil exploration as a notifiable resource consent activity, reducing the ability of groups to be
Sr Senolita Vakata, Director of Caritas Tonga examines the damage done to trees by coastal erosion caused by rising sea levels and storm damage in Ha’apai. Emily Benefield/Caritas.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 15 Indigenous peoples globally make up five per cent of the world’s population Indigenous but 15 per cent of the world’s poor. Caritas has set work with indigenous peoples peoples as a strategic priority for our work locally and globally in responding to poverty and injustice. The issues faced by our international indigenous partners have many similarities to local issues for Māori. For example, working to: retain or regain land and cultural identity; resolve historic injustices; and to address present-day inequalities.
Remembering Parihaka Hoki atu ki ō koutou kainga, whakaparihaka ai – Go back to your homes and make Parihaka there. The non-violent resistance of the Taranaki community of Parihaka in the 1880s to the confiscation of their lands is becoming well known locally
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand’s Gemma Sinnott and Mate Tangitu from Te Rūnanga o te Hāhi Katorika with women at Australia’s First Australian Partners Conference, Alice Springs, 2013. 16 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 ongoing work to support the to make changes in the way they relate community and to develop further to those around them. Caritas Aotearoa school resources in 2014. New Zealand appreciated the chance to
Learning from Australian learn from the Australian experience as Indigenous programmes we take steps in working with tāngata whenua in Aotearoa and better respond Caritas Australia’s First Australians to indigenous issues locally and globally. Programme supports a range of programmes which benefit Aboriginal Warawara Forest project communities, in areas such as education, employment, advocacy, psycho-social At the request of Te Kura Taumata o healing and family support. In October Panguru, a primary school in Hokianga, 2013, Gemma Sinnott of Caritas an educational resource will be developed and internationally. In the present day, Aotearoa New Zealand and Mate Tangitu in partnership with Caritas. It is hoped Parihaka continues to be a community of Te Rūnanga o te Hāhi Katorika ki that the resource will help children of people drawing on their historic Aotearoa (the National Catholic Māori gain a deeper understanding about the tradition and the wisdom of their Council) travelled to Alice Springs to Warawara forest, so the next generation leaders, Te Whiti and Tohu, in seeking to learn about how Caritas Australia works will serve as kaitiaki (guardians) and also rebuild their community and continue with indigenous communities. support the objectives of the local Kaitiaki to work for peace and justice. Komiti (guardian committee) to secure At a meeting of Caritas Australia’s future employment opportunities linked In response to requests from indigenous partners, they heard from to the forest. Catholic parishes, schools and other groups such as Red Dust Healing communities, Caritas worked with and the Kinchela Boys Home. They Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand staff have the people of Parihaka to produce a run programmes developed and run visited Panguru and the Warawara forest resource booklet to assist groups to by Aboriginal groups that enable in order to gain insights and establish a learn about and remember Parihaka. participants to address areas of pain, shared vision for the future prospects of The relationship is continuing through rejection and hurt in their lives, and then the Te Rarawa iwi.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 17 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand responded to a variety of emergencies in 2013, from Crisis typhoons in the Philippines, to conflict in Syria. Our donors have responded response overwhelmingly to our appeals. Caritas allocated over $1million towards humanitarian response in 2013. These donations enable Caritas to respond to emergencies immediately, when it is needed most.
Philippines Following Typhoon Bopha in December 2012, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand provided 700 displaced families with immediate relief items for day-to-day survival. We also worked to establish a water supply, provide sanitation, build shelters and help restore livelihoods and income sources. When Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in November over six thousand people died, four million people fled their homes and villages, and towns were totally destroyed.
People receiving emergency supplies following Super Typhoon Experts estimate the storm was the Haiyan in Palo, Philippines. Mark Mitchell/Caritas. 18 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 strongest to ever make landfall. Our supporters raised a record $1million and $250,000 was received from the New Zealand Government. Funds provided essential relief: food, sanitation, shelter, household items and trauma counselling for 275,000 people who were most severely hit by the typhoon. We are also supporting recovery projects to rebuild lives and livelihoods. These longer-term recovery activities will enable the Philippines to be more resilient to natural disasters, as the country is ranked the third most at- risk nation from natural disasters. A Syrian refugee woman sits in the half-built Lebanese apartment block near Reyfoun, close to the border Our Humanitarian Response with Syria, that is now home to 50 families. The families fled Syria due to the war and are now living on a Coordinator Mark Mitchell led the building site. PATRICK NICHOLSON/CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS. international Caritas response team in the Philippines for six weeks and will Syria and Lebanon Christchurch return to provide on-going support for Civil war in Syria has killed thousands We continue to support Christchurch, the recovery effort. and displaced seven million people. as it recovers from the 2011 earthquake, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has through funding a community liaison partnered with Caritas Lebanon to help person and two specialist social some of the 1.2 million Syrian refugees workers who provide support and in Lebanon and provide support for trauma counselling. host communities under stress.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 19 The June simulation exercise in Vanuatu. Kim Le Roux/ADRA.
Disaster preparedness In 2013 Caritas was involved in a coordinated programme of simulations of disasters or simulation exercises with six other New Zealand based non-government organisations. These took place in Tonga, Vanuatu and Fiji – countries that have a high incidence of natural disasters and are vital in preparing communities and organisations for emergencies. Asia Darfur Following Cyclone Evan in Samoa, in The 2013 monsoon season led to Conflict in Darfur continues to present conjunction with Caritas Samoa and floods and landslides across Asia. a large-scale humanitarian crisis within Caritas Australia, we have prepositioned Caritas provided emergency support a political setting still fraught with emergency supplies in Samoa. These will in Nepal, Cambodia and Pakistan. uncertainty and a near total absence enable us to get help to those that need of government provision of basic it faster and save time and money when essential services. The Darfur programme disaster strikes. strengthens community resilience through a range of programmes including livelihood promotion, provision of water and sanitation, and health and nutrition services.
20 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 CASE STUDY: philippines
A makeshift Christmas tree
Caritas’ Humanitarian Coordinator, Abilene Abihar (right) next to a temporary shelter her family built Mark Mitchell, met Abilene Abihar with reclaimed timber and corrugated iron. Mark Mitchell/Caritas. in Tacloban, a city badly damaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. She is a young woman from a village of about a hundred people, 30 of whom died in the typhoon. Abilene’s family were surviving on food donations from the Church and attempting to build a temporary shelter with reclaimed timber and salvaged iron sheeting for the roof. Despite their loss and the gravity of destruction around them, they set up a small Christmas tree outside their makeshift home, a sign of their resilience and strength to carry on.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 21 Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 21 Our supporters, schools, parishes, Awareness religious communities and social justice & connection networks are a part of an extensive Caritas community which sustain and support us. Through connecting with and creating awareness of our work within our communities - prayer and reflection, funds and support get to the people who need it most in New Zealand and around the world.
Participants at the Auckland Ripples of Justice conference in October. Mary Betz/Auckland Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.
22 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 Lent Lent is a significant The Caritas Lenten reflection In 2013 over $1 million was raised from time for Caritas programme booklets invited reflection parishes across the country for the to connect with and group discussion on the Lenten Bishops’ Lent Appeal. This enabled Caritas our community. Gospels, encouraging people to put to respond immediately to disasters, We produce Lent our faith into action throughout the helped us to support communities to resources to be used season of Lent. The booklets were meet their basic survival needs and nationwide to enable produced in English, Tongan, Samoan helped us to speak out for justice, to prayer, reflection and Tokelauan language versions. influence attitudes and create change. and almsgiving. The theme of Lent 2013 resources ‘Follow faithfully, Tell courageously, Live joyfully’ came from Lenten visitor Olivina Tu’iono of Caritas Tonga talking to students at St Patrick’s College Silverstream, Upper Hutt during a Caritas Justice Leadership Day. Emily Benefield/Caritas. Ecclesia in Oceania, a letter from Pope Benedict to the Church in the Pacific. Helping us to promote this theme we had Olivina Tu’iono visit us from Caritas Tonga. Olivina spoke in schools, parishes and to community groups and government representatives on how Caritas makes a difference to the lives of the poor in Tonga.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 23 Archbishop John Dew listening to young people’s stories of employment during Social Justice Week. Emily Benefield/Caritas
Social Justice Week 2013 focused on the challenges young people face in search of meaningful employment. Since the 2009 economic recession, young New Zealanders continue to struggle to find employment: one in six youth between the ages of Social Justice Week 15 to 24 actively looking for work W ork remains a good thing, not only were unemployed. because it is useful and enjoyable, but Over 75,000 young people are not in also because it expresses and increases employment, education or training. the worker’s dignity. Through work Young graduates struggle to find we not only transform the world, we work in the area they train for and are transformed ourselves, becoming many young workers find themselves “more a human being”. in precarious work arrangements Pope John Paul II: Laborem Exercens with little sense of security or stability. (On Human Work) #9, 1981 We asked people to support and encourage young people in our own
24 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 workplaces and to stand in solidarity Ripples of Justice with young people by demanding Conference more protection and support for The Auckland Ripples of Justice workers in national policy. conference in October, organised by Public forums hosted a range of the Auckland Catholic Commission for Caritas speakers and voices of young Justice and Peace, attracted over 200 workers came across strongly at all participants. Key note speakers were the events, both in attendance and Caritas Board Chair Mark Richards and as speakers. Archbishop John Dew Challenge 2000 founder Kitty McKinley. hosted a morning tea with local youth Caritas supported the conference with to discuss their experiences of looking a grant from the Justice and Peace fund for work, being in work and being out and provided 20 scholarships for low of work. He said he was struck by the income participants, many of whom struggles so many of them described were students, young people and from as they tried to find work. ethnic communities. A highlight of Social Justice Week was the Palmerston North seminar which featured a panel of young people as well as MPs from National, Labour, Greens, New Zealand First and a Cathy Bi Social Justice Week Coordinator Mana representative. speaking at a forum in Palmerston North. Lisa Beech/Caritas.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 25 Caritas in schools Lent resources for schools in 2013 Lucy Wilkins won Singout4Justice in the Years included a teacher’s booklet and 7-10 section with her song, One Human Family. Catherine Gibbs/Caritas. supporting materials which highlighted our partnerships in Papua New Guinea and Tonga. The resource, Towards a Sea think about topics such as child labour, Change, covered topics such as food meaningful work, and workers’ rights security and environmental challenges. and responsibilities. There was a range In 2013, 29 primary schools and 13 of materials available online to help secondary schools were visited for Lent classes study this theme and Caritas across all six dioceses. Five schools were staff visited 22 schools. visited for the first time in seven years. Catholic colleges from throughout We were delighted with the generous Aotearoa New Zealand were well response of the schools that raised over The annual SINGout4JUSTICE song represented at the eight Caritas $221,000 in 2013, including $81,000 for writing competition drew 23 entries Justice Leadership Days held across the Lent Appeal. across the two age groups. Lucy Wilkins’ all six dioceses. song One Human Family won the junior Caritas also has a partnership with section and Elena Siljic won with her the New Zealand Catholic Primary song Land of the Lord in the senior Principals Association to promote age group. fundraising for a Pacific country Social Justice Week resources for the through a Mufti-Mania event, which schools featured ideas and activities raised $11,500 to help schools and linked to work. Using the booklet Justice families improve water supplies and at Work learners were encouraged to tackle coastal erosion in Tonga.
26 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 Mahitahi - Catholic Overseas Volunteers Throughout 2013, 14 Mahitahi volunteers from New Zealand were posted to Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Rarotonga. Volunteers undertook a variety of positions, from teaching English as a second language, building, architecture, strategic planning, computer and IT technology, and training for teachers of deaf and disabled people.
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand restructure Mahitahi volunteer Matt O’Sullivan (left) with Isaac Fransen (right) and the local team, building a church in remote Makaruka, Weather Coast, Solomon Islands. In November 2013 a new organisation structure and a planned transition period was announced for Caritas In January 2013 we matched staff action regularly to discuss whether and how Aotearoa New Zealand. plans to the organisation’s plans, goals to change the structure of Caritas. Following an exercise in 2012 we and priorities. From this exercise, gaps identified our five strategic priorities in skills and resources were identified. A new collaborative style of working as: addressing poverty overseas and in Without changes to the organisation’s at Caritas will be built upon with cross- New Zealand; environmental justice; structure, it was unlikely that our departmental teams to spearhead indigenous peoples; crisis response; strategic priorities and goals would particular projects. These will encourage and awareness and connection. be achieved. During the year staff met shared leadership and innovative ideas.
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 27 Statement of financial performance for the year ended 31 December 2013
2012 INCOME 2013 Specified Income 667,205 Public Donations & Bequests 1,136,063 768,084 MFAT-Development Grants (SDF) 1,456,568 216,782 MFAT-Disaster Response Fund 534,834 1,652,071 3,127,465 Summary financial Unspecified Income 902,889 Lent Appeal 1,037,415 221,910 Direct Mail Appeals 250,046 statements 276,243 One World Partnership 283,718 583,819 General Donations 919,548 456,791 Bequests 36,569 149,464 Interest 169,822 6,300 Other 9,003 2,597,416 2,706,121
4,249,487 Total Income 5,833,586
2012 EXPENDITURE 2013 426,621 Administration 486,000 340,255 Public Relations & Fundraising 333,189 359,528 Programmes - Domestic 565,675 431,178 Programmes - International 458,762 155,927 Domestic Distributions 189,858 - Mahitahi 117,237 International Distributions 655,008 Relief & Rehabilitation 1,261,225 1,014,753 Development Projects 1,853,349 6,542 Advocacy - 37,083 Other 98,900
3,426,895 Total Expenditure 5,364,195
822,592 Surplus for the year 469,391 28 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 Statement of movement in equity Statement of cash flows for the year ended 31 December 2013 as at 31 December 2013
2012 2013 2012 Cash flows from operating activities 2013 1,601,824 OPENING FUNDS 2,424,416 4,299,139 Income 5,982,881 (3,492,206) Payments to suppliers and employees (5,233,585) Accumulated Funds 806,933 Net cash flows from operating activities 749,296 - Accumulated Fund-Mahitahi 37,943 822,592 Net Surplus for the year 469,391 Cash flows from investing activities (717,248) Transfer to Reserve Funds (222) (562,607) Purchase of Investments, equipment (21,168) (562,607) Net cash flows (used in) investing activities (21,168) 105,344 Net Movement 507,112 244,326 Net increase in cash at bank 728,128 Reserve Funds 345,969 Cash at bank at beginning of year 590,295 717,248 Transfer from Accumulated Funds 222 590,295 Cash at bank at end of year 1,318,423
717,248 Net Movement 222
2,424,416 CLOSING FUNDS 2,931,750
Statement of financial position as at 31 December 2013
2012 FUNDS 2013 913,728 Accumulated Funds 1,420,840 1,510,688 Reserve Funds 1,510,910 2,424,416 TOTAL FUNDS EMPLOYED 2,931,750
Represented by: 3,955,968 Current Assets 4,723,090 1,677,411 Less: Current Liabilities 2,025,425 2,278,557 NET CURRENT ASSETS 2,697,665
45,859 Fixed Assets 34,085 100,000 Term Deposit 200,000
2,424,416 NET ASSETS 2,931,750 Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 29 Notes to the summary financial statements Report of the independent auditor on These summary financial statements of Caritas Aotearoa the summary financial statements New Zealand are extracted from the full financial statements which are available on request from the Caritas Office, P O Box To the Board of Caritas Aotearoa 12-193, Thorndon, Wellington 6144. The summary financial New Zealand statements cannot be expected to provide as complete an The accompanying summary financial statements, which understanding as provided by the full financial report of the comprise the summary statement of financial position as financial performance and financial position of the entity. at 31 December 2013, the summary statement of financial The full financial statements were prepared in accordance performance, summary statement of movements in equity, with NZ GAAP (New Zealand Generally Accepted Accounting and summary cash flow statement for the year then ended, Practice), have been audited with an unmodified audit opinion being issued. The full financial statements were authorised by and related notes, are derived from the audited financial the Caritas Board on 14 March 2014. Caritas is a public benefit statements of Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand for the year ended entity and qualifies for concessions available under differential 31 December 2013. We expressed an unmodified audit opinion reporting. Full disclosure of policies and explanatory notes to on those financial statements in our report dated 14 March 2014. the financial statements can be found on pages 6 to 17 of the The summary financial statements do not contain all the full financial statements. disclosures required for full financial statements under generally The summary financial statements are compliant with Financial Standard No 39: Summary Financial Reports. The summary accepted accounting practice in New Zealand. Reading the financial statements have been examined by the auditor for summary financial statements, therefore, is not a substitute for consistency with the full financial report and an unmodified reading the audited financial statements of Caritas Aotearoa opinion has been issued by the auditor in that respect. New Zealand.
Signed on behalf of the Caritas Board on 14 March 2014.
Beverley Turnbull Chair Julianne Hickey CEO
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The Board are responsible for the preparation of a summary of Interest 3% Ministry of Foreign Affairs & the audited financial statements in accordance with FRS-39: Specified Trade 34% Summary Financial Reports. donations & bequests 19% Auditor’s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the summary General financial statements based on our procedures, which were donations conducted in accordance with International Standard on 21% Auditing (New Zealand) (ISA (NZ)) 810 Engagements to Report One World Partnership (regular Lent Appeal 18% on Summary Financial Statements. donors) 5% Other than in our capacity as auditor we have no relationship with, or interests in, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand.
Opinion HOW INCOME WAS used Surplus to be distributed In our opinion, the summary financial statements derived Mahitahi 8% from the audited financial statements of Caritas Aotearoa 2% Administration New Zealand for the year ended 31 December 2013 are 8% consistent, in all material respects, with those financial Fundraising & statements, in accordance with FRS-39. communications 6% BDO Wellington 14 March 2014 International programmes New Zealand 50 Customhouse Quay 63% advocacy & Wellington education 13% New Zealand
Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 31 Caritas has been fortunate in quality willingness to commit so much of your From the Chair leadership shown by our Director time and energy to Caritas. Mark, Julianne Hickey and the enthusiasm I would particularly like to thank you for and commitment of our staff during the the way you have led both the Board and organisational transformation that is the organisation through its re-visioning taking place. Organisational change is and re-shaping over the past two years. not easy, but the strong sense of common The Development and Relief Committee purpose and direction shared by the and the International Programmes Team Board and staff members has helped lost a wise mentor and valued advisor make these changes easier. with the retirement of Sister Elizabeth The integration of Mahitahi within Mackie who has been with us since 2008. In 2013 we continued to build strong Caritas has made good progress and we Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing your relationships with partners in New Zealand are developing greater collaboration and time and expertise with us. cohesion between the support provided and around the world. Board members There are many exciting things ahead of by Mahitahi and the programmes witnessed the respect in which Caritas us in 2014, including new staff joining the supported by Caritas within the Pacific. Aotearoa New Zealand is held first-hand organisation, the launch of the Caritas I thank the staff of Caritas and Mahitahi this year during visits to Rome, Jerusalem, Challenge in secondary schools and for the goodwill displayed during this Solomon Islands and Cambodia. Board being part of the Caritas Internationalis integration process. members who visited programmes or ‘One human family food for all’ campaign. attended meetings with our partners, In November 2013, two long-serving brought an added dimension to board Board members retired. John Richards, meetings, helping us to assess our who has been on the Board and the decisions and strategic thinking against Audit Committee for six years, and Mark the reality for those our decisions affect. Richards who has also been on the Board Our partners appreciate our visits and I and its committees for six years and was Beverley Turnbull have been told, ‘it shows that Caritas really Chair of the Board for the past three Chair of the Caritas Aotearoa is serious about supporting us’. years. John and Mark, I thank you for your New Zealand Board
32 | Caritas Annual Report 2013 Principles of Catholic About us Our Vision Social Teaching Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is Inspired and guided by the Gospels Human dignity: Every single person Association:the New Zealand The Catholichuman personBishops Solidarity:and the principles We are of one Catholic human Social family. is created in the image of God, and is isConference not only sacred agency but for also justice, social. peace TheTeaching, principle we workof solidarity to eliminate requires injustice invaluable and worthy of respect as Peopleand development. achieve fulfillment Caritas is theby Latin ofand us poverty.that we Thisnot concernwill be accomplished ourselves word for love, Caritas is love in action. through focusing our resources on clear a member of the human family. It is association with others – in families solely with our own lives. Our Caritas works to make a difference in priorities and goals, and weaving together from our human dignity that all other and other social institutions. responsibilities to each other call the lives of people living with poverty integral human development, advocacy, rights and responsibilities flow. us to work globally for justice. Participation:or injustice. We Peopledeliver aid,have support a right education, relief and rehabilitation. Respect for human life: Human life at anddevelopment duty to participate and work forin society,justice around Stewardship: We have a responsibility every stage is precious and therefore seekingthe world together and at home the well-being in New Zealand. of toO urcare Vforal theue giftss that God has given worthy of protection and respect. all.We Everyone are part of has Caritas the rightInternationalis, not to be us,Compassion including theand environment, empathy – Aroha our shuta global out ofconfederation participating of inover those 160 personalHuman dignity talents –and Te manaother iresources. te tangata Human equality: Equality of all institutionsCatholic aid, necessary development for humanand social Equality – Ōritetanga people comes from their inherent Universal destination of goods: WEST PAPUA fulfillment,justice agencies such working as work, in educationover 200 Hope – Tūmanako human dignity. Differences in talents The earth and all it produces are andcountries political and participation. territories. Justice – Tika PAPUAare part NEW of God’s GUINEA plan, but social, intended for every person. Private Our Strategic Priorities cultural andSolo economicmon Islan discriminationds CommonOur Missi good:on The common good ownership is acceptable, but there is
are not.Sam oa isCaritas about Aotearoa respecting New the Zealand rights willand be alsoAddressing a responsibility poverty, toenvironmental ensure all have Samoa responsibilities of all people. The enoughjustice, indigenous to live in dignity. peoples, crisis Preferential protection for the known as love in action. We unite with V anuATU individual does not have unfettered response, awareness and connection. poor and vulnerable: Our Catholic communities, especially in the parishes, Subsidiarity: No higher level of Tonga rightscolleges, at the marae, expense religious of others, orders andbut nor tradition instructs us to put the needs organisationOur Way shouldof Be iperformng any areschools individual of Aotearoa rights and to be Oceania subordinated to of the poor and vulnerable first. It is functionWithin Caritas that can and best in all be our handled work, we at Tonga toovercome the needs poverty, of the protectgroup. lives and especially important that we look at a lower level by those who are closer relieve suffering. seek to be the hands, ears, eyes and public policy decisions in terms of tomouth the issues of Christ; or problems, formed by such his love as and how they affect the poor. familiesheart, we or are communities. ready to serve, to forgive and to speak with patience, wisdom, gentleness and perseverance. Aotearoa New Zealand Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 3 Caritas Annual Report 2013 | 1 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Catholic Centre, 22–30 Hill Street, Thorndon, Wellington 6011 PO Box 12193, Wellington 6144 [email protected] www.caritas.org.nz www.facebook.com/caritasaotearoa THANK YOU twitter.com/CaritasNZ +64 4 496 1742 0800 22 10 22 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is sustained through donations, Auckland office Pompallier Centre, 30 New Street, St Mary’s Bay, Auckland prayers and engagement from +64 9 360 3023 our communities. Thank you, we really couldn’t Registered charity # CC36055 do it without you. This report has been printed with vegetable-based inks.
Cover: Caritas’ Senior Programmes Coordinator Nick Borthwick listens to Liborio, an expert craftsman and handyman, talk about his work teaching youth in Solomon Islands building and carpentry skills. Adrian Heke.
The kowhaiwhai on the front cover portrays the whakataukī (proverb) Tutu ana te puehu. The dominant line represents a strong orator prevailing through all other argument on the marae – stirring up the dust. The kowhaiwhai was designed by the late Martin Winiata of Ngāti Raukawa, Horowhenua.
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