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DONATE NOW TO RECEIVE YOUR TAX DEDUCTION BEFORE EOFY. advertising supplement CONTENTS FEATURED CHARITIES Sydney French Roman Catholic Charities ....... p3 St Vincent de Paul ........................................p4-5 Mary MacKillop Today .................................p6-7 Development & Fundraising Office ...........p8-11 Missionaries of the Sacred Heart ............p12-13 ACRATH ......................................................... p14 Catholic Mission .......................................p16-17 St Vincent de Paul 4 Anti-Slavery Task Force ............................p20-21 Somascans ...............................................p22-23 Vatican Vaccination Clinic 15 Development & 8 Fundraising Office Australian Priest: 18 Homeless in Hong Kong MSC: Missionaries of the 12 Sacred Heart Anti-Slavery Task Force 20 Development & Fundraising Office - Ephpheta Centre GOOD CHARITIES THE GOOD CHARITIES MAGAZINE Publisher: The Catholic Weekly, 20 June 2021 Editorial contributors: Cindy Wooden Design: Archdiocese of Sydney Digital and Design Team Sales and Marketing: Steve Richards www.catholicweekly.com.au 2 charities magazine • 2021 French Roman Catholic Charities Sydney French Roman Catholic Charities A charitable organisation which began 23 years ago when His Grace Maurice Piat, bishop of Port Louis in Mauritius visited Sydney. ur charitable as- privileged adults and chil- sociation began 23 dren, now including around years ago, when 16000 children under 15, His Grace Maurice many of whom are orphans OPiat, bishop of Port Louis or abandoned. in Mauritius (now His Em- Jobs are provided in house inence Maurice Cardinal construction, hand crafts, Piat) visited Sydney. Whilst agriculture, carpentry, me- here he asked our French chanics and welding. Edu- speaking community, es- cation is delivered through pecially the Mauritians, for 5 kindergartens, 7 primary help in supporting the ed- schools, 4 colleges, 3 high ucational program in Mau- schools and 3 universities’ ritius. faculties. More details can From the start our efforts be found on: www.austral- were undertaken in asso- iansformadagascar.org and ciation with the Australian www.perepedro-akamasoa. Catholic University to help net. educate poor children in In 2013, the SFRCC be- Mauritius through the pro- came partners with ‘Catho- vision of qualified teachers. lic Mission’ to improve Our original “Mauri- its fundraising activities tian Night” later became a through the tax deducti- “Charity Night” which took port has contributed to the bility offered for personal place every year on the last holistic social development donations going to ‘Aka- Saturday of October. Since of the poor through educa- masoa’ activities. last year’s imposed re- tion for both children and From 1999 to 2020 SFRCC strictions regarding public adults, and health services has raised $1,303,075. Do- gatherings, our fundrais- for those in the country- nors average: 500. Our fi- ing continues through the side. Mobile dispensaries nancial help is providing generosity of personal do- and small hospitals provide education and health care nations, selling of Malagasy health care for lepers and (when needed) for around artefacts and a lottery. TB and malaria sufferers on 16000 children for a period From 2005, in association the south-east coast of the of about 9 months! with Caritas Australia, we Island. On September 29, 2019 have helped Mauritius and In 2007, our charitable Akamasoa celebrated 30 Madagascar alternatively association was registered years since its foundation. through Caritas Mauritius with NSW government as On September 8, Holy Fa- and Caritas Madagascar. the “Sydney French Roman ther Francis honoured In Mauritius, we sup- Catholic Charities” SFRCC, them with a visit during ported a micro project for (CNF/20467) and recognised his apostolic trip to Mad- accommodation by pro- by the Catholic Archdio- evaluation of activities. In- Non-Government Organi- agascar. Fr Pedro and Pope viding no interest loans to cese of Sydney. The official dependent auditors here sation, AKAMASOA” (‘Good Francis have been good the poor living in slums to committee is made up of and in Madagascar assure Friends’) is assisted by pro- friends since they met at build homes. Funds could 11 persons (Fr Jan Chrzczo- the transparency of our fi- fessional teachers, health University in Buenos Aires, be borrowed from Caritas nowicz as chairman). Our nancial activities. care and social workers, Argentina where Fr Pedro Mauritius on condition that association is based on vol- In 2005, we started help- jobs’ faculties, seven med- was studying, and the fu- borrowers were employed untary membership. The ing Fr Pedro OPEKA of Mad- ical centres and many vol- ture Pope Francis was one and made repayments in Committee is supported by agascar with his endeav- unteers. of his professors! accordance with their fi- around 30 close supporters, our of helping the poorest Akamasoa provides em- Donation enquiries: Fr Jan nancial situation. and meets twice a year for of the poor on the out- ployment and education Chrzczonowicz at new email: In Madagascar our sup- planning, organisation and skirts of Antananarivo. His for around 25,000 under- [email protected] 3 charities magazine • 2021 St Vincent de Paul “As long as she’s happy, I’m happy” - Darren’s love for his daughter Darren vividly remembers the heart break of having his daughter Olivia taken away by DoCS. “She needed my love and my support, it destroyed everything that I believed in,” reflects Darren. Needing to find a stable place to live in order to be reunited with his daughter, the support of Vinnies helped Darren to move forward with his life. Having separated from helped secure permanent his previous partner due accommodation for Darren. to unsafe living condi- With a place to call his tions, Darren nomadically own and Vinnies advocat- moved wherever he could ing to DocS, it wasn’t long find shelter for his young before Darren felt renewed daughter. by the love of having his Out of work, couch surf- daughter back in his life. ing and without a rental “When I got that place, history to call upon, the she came and visited me lack of stability affected for the first weekend, and his mental wellbeing along her face was just price- with depriving Olivia of a less. She just ran around much-needed routine. the house, jumping up and “I’d pretty much cry my- down saying, ‘This is ours, self to sleep because I this is ours!’”, recalls Dar- couldn’t give my daughter ren. what she needed to live.” “It’s given me and Olivia “She always used to ask so much freedom. It’s made ‘Where are we going to- me feel a lot better inside day?’, ‘What are we going myself knowing that I have to have for dinner, dad?’ – I a house, and I can lock that could see that it was affect- door, and it’s mine. ing her.” “Giving her that secu- Already struggling with- rity of knowing that’s our out a permanent place to home; it’s improved with call home, Olivia’s health her school, the teachers al- suffered due to a poor diet “Darren and Olivia have a bright future ahead now that they have a roof over their head, but ways tell me how much she of takeaway and quick many more people are facing uncertain futures. With more than 37,000 people experiencing improves every year.” meals stemming from a homelessness on any given night in NSW, social support payments being stripped back With Olivia back in his lack of available cooking below the poverty line and the expiration of the rental moratorium leaving many vulnerable life and his prospects look- facilities, while during the to evictions and backdated debts, Vinnies is needed more than ever to ensure people are ing up, Darren is looking harsh winter months the protected in their times of need. You can help Vinnies continue assisting individuals and forward to getting back into father and daughter were families by making or encouraging a donation to the Vinnies Winter Appeal 2021.” work while balancing the stretched in their ability to responsibilities of raising manage the cold. Darren turned to Vinnies Undertaking parenting it worked so well, because his daughter. “We had to huddle up to- where he was introduced to courses, financial coun- he wanted it. He wanted “I just want Olivia to be gether with blankets, and Danielle, one of our home- selling and re-establishing Olivia back; he wanted a happy and have a safe and I had a little stove cooker less support workers. communication with Ol- home, he wanted his fam- healthy life.” that I used to get going; I’d “When Darren first came ivia’s mother, Darren’s de- ily,” says Danielle. “[Without Vinnies] I open the door up on it so to us he was very concerned termination to be reunited Continuing to see Olivia wouldn’t have a house and we could get the heat from about his daughter going in with his daughter left an on visitations made possi- I wouldn’t have my daugh- it.” to foster care. To have any impression that resonated ble by Vinnies, who provid- ter back. Reaching a crisis point af- child taken off you would with Danielle. ed assistance with trans- “As long as she’s happy, ter DoCS deemed the living be a very emotional thing,” “He was participating the port, a major breakthrough I’m happy, at the end of situation to be untenable, recalls Danielle. whole way, and that’s why occurred when Danielle the day.” HOW TO DONATE TO THE VINNIES WINTER APPEAL Visit www.vinnies.org.au | Call 13 18 12 | In-store at any Vinnies Shop 4 charities magazine • 2021 St Vincent de Paul You can help rescue a child from homelessness. DONATE TODAY. 5 charities magazine • 2021 Mary MacKillop Today Why ‘Education for Life’ is so important Jane Woolford, Mary MacKillop Today’s CEO, talks about lifelong learning Jane Woolford, CEO of Mary MacKillop Today ducation is one of paper – it’s the stimulation and the best invest- The theme ‘Education for inspiration you provide around Recent graduate, Hayden, a Mary ments a country Life’ is about enabling access learning.

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