Working for a just world for 50 years: SCIAF 1965-2015 FOREWORD

Since SCIAF was founded in 1965 we The words of Pope Paul VI in his have walked together in God’s love, in encyclical letter Populorum Progressio solidarity with those who are poor and were the inspiration for the growth and oppressed, and with your help we’ve development of SCIAF and many other achieved great things. Millions of people Church aid agencies around the world. in Africa, Asia and Latin America have He wrote, “The hungry nations of the been able to work their way out of world cry out to the peoples blessed with poverty with the tools they needed, and abundance. And the Church, cut to the millions have received the life-saving aid quick, asks each of us to hear the plea they needed after disasters. Generations and respond lovingly.” of our loyal supporters In schools, Our founders took this message to parishes and elsewhere throughout heart. Their initiative and dedication led have put their faith into action Catholics up and down the country to and reached out to their brothers and help people devastated by emergencies sisters in need overseas. including the 1968 crisis in Biafra (now All this has only been possible, thanks part of south-eastern Nigeria) and to you – your generosity, your time, your drought in Bihar in India. Our work passion for justice and your support. continued and grew, helping people in SCIAF Director Alistair Dutton in Burkina Faso. We owe a huge debt to our founders and need overseas including Vietnamese all those who’ve worked hard over the refugees fleeing their country from the years. Inspired by the spirit and teaching mid-1970s and Ethiopians hit by the Contents of the , Mgr John terrible famine in the mid-1980s, to the Rooney and John McKee set up SCIAF Darfur crisis, the Asian tsunami, the Haiti Foreword ...... 3 in Rutherglen in 1965 with just £8,000 in earthquake, the Philippines’ cyclone, the Syrian conflict and the Ebola epidemic in Introduction ...... 6 the first year. The ’ Conference of Scotland appointed Michael more recent times. Founding a Fund ...... 1965 . . to 1974 . . 9. Foylan as our first Treasurer. Their aim, As the Church teaches, we always give Confidence and growth ...... 1975 to 1984 . . 13. which we still follow today, was to help more than financial support; we always people who are poor throughout the Building a sense of solidarity and justice . . . . . 1985 to 1994 . . 19. strive to cater for people’s physical, world and inspire Scottish Catholics to emotional, spiritual, social and economic From Rwanda to Make Poverty History ...... 1995 to 2004 . . 25. respond to Jesus’ call for a just world in well-being. As the international aid which all people have life and live it to The SCIAF family ...... 2005 . . to 2015 . . 33. charity of the Bishops’ Conference in the full (Luke 4:18-19). Scotland, ours is a cause of dignity, What next for SCIAF? ...... 41 . . . Just as Jesus launched his public ministry solidarity, compassion, justice, caring Our 50th anniversary blessing ...... 42 . . by taking the scroll of Isaiah, we join him for people in their entirety, and in proclaiming: accompanying them on their journey Words of thanks to our supporters ...... 45 . . “from less human to more human “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Index ...... 48. . . . conditions,” in the words of Pope Paul because he has anointed me VI. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his Bibliography ...... 50 . . . to bring good news to the poor. 2009 encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate, He has sent me to proclaim liberty to Acknowledgements ...... 51 echoing the words of Paul VI, “authentic the captives and recovery of sight to the human development concerns the whole blind, to let the oppressed go free, Published by the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF). First edition: 2015 of the person in every single dimension.” ISBN: 978-0-9932562-0-2 to proclaim a year of the Lord’s favour.” © All rights reserved. (Lk 4:18-19) This shines through in our work. For 2 3 example, after the Asian tsunami in than the kind of charity which encounters 2004, we not only rebuilt homes and the neighbour directly.” (Caritas in helped people to earn a living again, Veritate, paragraph 7). Every Christian, we also worked with children so they he said, is called to practise this charity could overcome their fear of the sea, according to their role in society. and learn to play in it once more. In Africa, we care for women traumatised has continued the social by rape through counselling centres run impetus of the Church, calling us to be “a by the local Church, as well as giving poor Church for the poor”, and has been medical care to them and their children. prolific in highlighting the plight of the In Latin America, we continue to support poor and the need for social justice. To the work of poor families who help mark the start of our anniversary this year their disabled children take part in the we were honoured to receive a blessing community. from the Holy Father. In it, Pope Francis Reflecting the teaching of the Church, reiterated his Lenten message from 2014 our work over the years has helped in which he said, people to take control of their lives – we give them a hand up, not a hand out. “We Christians are called to confront This is why, for instance, we support the poverty of our brothers and sisters; many small savings groups among poor to touch it, to make it our own and take women, who use their collective funds to practical steps to alleviate it… Our efforts help each other. Loans are given to the are also directed to ending violations of women in most need, who might buy a human dignity, discrimination and abuse sewing machine or a few goats to make a in the world, for these are so often the living and provide for their children. This cause of destitution in the world.” often produces a small surplus which they can sell and save so they can provide These words guide our work forward some of the family’s other necessities. every day. Over the years, whether it When they pay the loan back, the money has been responding to major disasters, is used to help others. helping people to free themselves from Church teaching also tells us to tackle hunger and poverty or campaigning for the causes of poverty such as inequality, justice, we seek to be a reflection of economic injustice and climate change. God’s love for His people. This has inspired us to play an important part in popular political campaigns With your support, over the last 50 years over the years such as the Jubilee we’ve given millions of families a better Debt campaign, Make Poverty History chance in life and hope for the future. and most recently, Enough Food for We won’t stop while they need our help. Everyone’ IF. In various ways, these have made a huge difference, leading to the cancellation of debt for many poor countries, a massive increase in international aid, and help for people who are already suffering the effects of climate change. Pope Benedict called

this kind of response “the political path of charity, no less excellent and effective Alistair Dutton, Director of SCIAF A bullet made into a Cross acts as a sign of peace in DR Congo (photo: Simon Murphy).

4 5 INTRODUCTION

The year Catholics of Scotland reaching out to the • globalisation and the increasing Spreading that joy, in practical aid as well 2015 marks needy.” influence of commercial interests; as in words, when the Church reaches out the fiftieth to the needy, is a missionary imperative If there is one thing which reassures us • the fragmentation of some countries, anniversary for all Christians. And when we say that SCIAF is still close to the minds which looks like creating a new “Third of the “the Church”, that has to mean you and and hearts of Catholics in Scotland it is founding of World”; me. We are the salt to counter so much the huge number of SCIAF volunteers. the Scottish • the opportunity offered by the corruption, and the light that must banish Around two hundred individuals give Catholic the darkness. willingly of their talents, and of whatever communications revolution based on International time they can spare, to help with so many social media. As we begin this anniversary year, I Aid Fund – aspects of our work. We can be sure that our SCIAF hand over the presidency of SCIAF SCIAF – in to my successor, Bishop Our achievements, which are your successors, and even the younger people 1965. This of . I wish him, and the achievements, are recorded in this little already among us, will have no lack of little book organisation, every success. seeks to book, in the newspaper coverage, and purposes and projects in the future. chart the progress of SCIAF and to offer in the series of annual reports sent out The cry of the poor and the oppressed a thank you to all the many people who to parishes, with project details and the has resounded in every century since have helped make us something the smiling photos of people grateful for Isaiah. As the Church in Scotland we Catholic community can be proud of. your help. cannot and must not close our ears If you are reading this, you are almost Our thanks must go of course to to their cry. St Paul tells us, and Pope certainly one of those people! Our Lord himself who is the ultimate Francis reminds us constantly, that the Rt Rev Peter A Moran, Bishop President SCIAF grew from tiny beginnings. With inspiration and strength of all we do. joy of the Good News is for sharing. of SCIAF 2004 – 2015 the active involvement of Canon John Our thanks go also to those who took Rooney, one unpaid volunteer (John the founding decision fifty years ago, to McKee), based at St Columbkille’s, the five lay people who have led SCIAF Rutherglen, received the donations over these years, to the members of the and the Treasurer (Bishop Foylan of Board, and especially to the SCIAF staff, ) signed and sent the cheques. volunteers and supporters, over these A committee with two representatives years and today. As we give support will remain strong and that the from each diocese in Scotland advised on We thank parishes, schools, individuals, thanks for younger generations will respond with which projects to support. So from the institutional funders and government the first 50 equal generosity and enthusiasm. We are first, the Fund was to be the Catholics departments for tens of millions of years of called by the Lord to continually see him in Scotland reaching out to the needy in pounds given for the needy; we give SCIAF we in all our brothers and sisters, especially needy countries. thanks for crises alleviated, projects look forward the poorest, and we ask him to inspire our SCIAF has grown enormously over the partnered, attitudes altered, poverty to building efforts to fulfil what he expects of us. Let last 50 years. Measured in pounds and and misery solaced and dignity and self- on what us work with SCIAF then as we strive to pence we distribute a thousand times esteem restored through your generosity. has been do our duty in building a better and more as much per year as in the first year. achieved and A jubilee like this must also be the just world. Public accountability is required. This to continuing springboard for the next fifty years. has called for full-time qualified and paid to offer a Not all challenges can be foreseen, but staff. More recently, funding has been helping of those that can be, here are some increasingly available from corporate hand to examples: bodies or from government development some of the most needy in the world. We budgets. But we don’t want to “grow • climate change and its will continue to rely on the support of away” from our core support. We aim disproportionate impact upon the the Catholic community in Scotland and Rt Rev Joseph Toal, Bishop President of to be, as our founders intended, “the poorest; our other friends and we trust that this SCIAF 2015 6 7 FOUNDING A FUND (1965-74)

“While an immense mass of people still lack the absolute necessities of life, some, even in less advanced countries, live sumptuously or squander wealth. Luxury and misery rub shoulders. While the few enjoy very great freedom of choice, the many are deprived of almost all possibility of acting on their own initiative and responsibility, and often subsist in living and working conditions unworthy of human beings.” Canon Rooney Mr. J. McKee Bishop Foylan Gaudium et Spes Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, paragraph 63, 1965 SCOTS FUND TO SEND AID ABROAD

The hierarchy of Scotland are population of the world. We in With the principles of the Second J McKee. On behalf of the Scottish setting up a “Scottish Catholic Scotland may be (relatively) all Vatican Council guiding them, the Bishops, it gives me great joy to thank International Aid Fund” to help right, but it would be utterly Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund Mr McKee for fulfilling their trust, for underdeveloped countries, it unchristian to close our eyes was founded by Mgr John Rooney being the faithful custodian of the was announced in a pastoral to the state of poverty and and John McKee in the presbytery of Fund’s interests and pray that he will be letter to be read out at all near starvation in which many St Columbkille’s parish, Rutherglen. with SCIAF for many years to come.” masses last Sunday. millions live in the under- The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland developed countries.…God will appointed the of St SCIAF soon became part of the fabric of The letter said ….” In this age reward you for your generosity. Andrews and Edinburgh and Scottish Catholic life. In 1968 Catholics of plenty it is vital for all of us, May He bless you all.” as trustees, with Bishop Michael Foylan in Scotland gave over £3,000 to our old and young alike, to realise as Treasurer. John McKee led and appeal for people hit by famine in Biafra that the age of (destitute) developed SCIAF’s work for many years (now part of south-eastern Nigeria). We poverty is not over for a Scottish Catholic Observer until he retired as Vice Chair in 1995, also sent food and medicine following th very large proportion of the 17 September 1965 aged 90. drought and famine in Bihar, India. Our aim was agreed by the Bishops’ Responding to emergencies would Conference and communicated to all remain a core part of our work for the the parishes in Scotland: “SCIAF is the next 50 years. official overseas agency of the Bishops, clergy and laity of Scotland. It exists to help the world’s hungry, underprivileged The hungry nations of and destitute. It hopes also to make the the world cry out to the realities better known and to arouse a lively awareness of the obligations peoples blessed with deriving from Christian charity and abundance. And the responsibility.” church, cut to the quick, With the active help of Catholic parishes and schools, we raised £8,000 in our first asks each of us to hear year. the plea and respond Rt Rev , then Bishop lovingly. President, writing in Founding a Fund, SCIAF 1965-85 said, “It is appropriate Pope Paul VI, to single out one outstanding layman in Populorum Progressio, We responded after the Bangladesh Cyclone in 1971. the first twenty years of SCIAF, Mr John paragraph 3, 1967

8 9 Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Populorum This money does not represent Progressio (or On the Development a charitable hand-out to soothe of Peoples), had a huge impact on SCIAF APPEAL the Church’s work for peace and for the consciences of Scottish “Because you go to Mass on Sunday, deprived men, woman and children human development worldwide. The Catholics but is a genuine living in arid scrub-lands. Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace listen to a sermon, or a special bidding was established following this encyclical, attempt, however small, to prayer, and put a donation in the SCIAF Training centres and schools for special collection ….. and in Scotland, the SCIAF committee wipe out the glaring inequalities education and technical instruction at all was mandated to act as the Scottish • Rice will grow where none has grown levels will be provided, supported and Commission for Justice and Peace, with which exist in the world. before encouraged. From them will come the Scanlan as President. In 1973 • Wheat and maize will spring up in the new young men and women leaders, Canon John Rooney, skilled in all forms of community a new Justice and Peace Commission was dust plains established under the presidency of then September 1971 service to help transform their primitive Bishop . John McKee • Wells will be dug patterns of production. acted as Secretary and the office was • Farming tools will be supplied other agencies to produce a guide for Always with the goal in mind of helping in Rutherglen, sitting alongside SCIAF • New and additional animals will be teachers – ‘The Third World’. This was people to help themselves to rise above and the Catholic Education Commission. introduced warmly received and had a real impact the deprivation and degradation in The close links between the two bodies on the teaching of the new subject of • Up to date farming training will be which the greater part of the human remain, with Bishop Joseph Toal now Modern Studies in Scotland. A second provided race is scratching out an existence.” taking up his position as President of both edition was published in 1974 and the SCIAF and Justice and Peace in 2015. So that milk, meat and fish - with their Father Paul Crane in the Scottish third edition was later produced by the life –supporting proteins will reach Catholic Observer, 10th September 1971 Our education work grew from the United Nations Educational Trust. earliest days of SCIAF and began to bear real fruit. In 1970 we worked with By the early 1970s, SCIAF’s focus on Jordanhill College of Education and a practical hand up for communities, linked with an understanding of the demands of justice, was already clear in PLEA for AID our annual appeals. In June 1974, then Fr Annual collection to help the world’s destitute SCIAF is working for a just John Mone was appointed Chair of SCIAF after the sudden death of Mgr Rooney, The annual collection for the Scottish the world with wonderful results. world. Someone said that ‘the and later that year, then Fr Ian Murray Catholic International Aid Fund takes Catholics of other countries are also opposite of poverty is not became assistant organiser. Both of these place in all Churches in Scotland on engaged in work of this nature. England inspiring priests would later become Sunday 8th September 1972. SCIAF exists wealth, but in many places, has the Catholic Agency for Overseas bishops and retain a lengthy and valued to help the world’s under-privileged Development, America has its Catholic the opposite of poverty is engagement with SCIAF. By the end of and destitute. It hopes also to make the Relief Services, France has Secours justice’. We may not have the its first decade, our little organisation was realities better known and to arouse Catholique, Germany has Misereor, etc. ready for new challenges. a lively awareness of the obligations About a decade ago and particularly capacity to create a different deriving from Christian charity and In 1972, SCIAF moved to our first since the Second Vatican Council, the world for the suffering, but responsibility. official premises. John McKee had churches of the West began to show working together we bring a been appointed Education Officer SCIAF tries to devise ways and means a more general concern for fullness of world of difference in the lives for the Bishops’ Conference in 1970, of obtaining financial support for the life for the whole human family. This and combined this with his role as our purpose of the fund. Claims for assistance activity has given rise to many voluntary of the suffering. Secretary. Two years later, the Catholic are carefully examined and the emphasis agencies which aim to help others to Education Commission and SCIAF moved is on material assistance for social, help themselves. SCIAF is one of those Kayondo Mathias, Sustainable into the former school at St Columbkille’s, agencies. Agriculture for Rural educational, medical, industrial and Rutherglen, which had been acquired by agricultural needs. Since 1965 the sum of Scottish Catholic Observer, Development Network, a Mgr Rooney. The offices were furnished £172,807 has been distributed throughout 8th September 1972 SCIAF partner in Uganda by the Columba Trust. 10 11 CONFIDENCE AND GROWTH (1975-84)

“The Church considers it her task always to call attention to the dignity and rights of those who work, to condemn situations in which that dignity and those rights are violated, and to help to guide the changes so as to ensure authentic progress by man and society.” St John Paul II, Laborem Exercens, 1981

By 1977, we were supporting 25 projects During the 1980s, the international around the world including water pumps debate on global poverty began to for a lepers’ centre in India, a blood grow more active, and SCIAF supporters bank at a Nigerian hospital, support for took an increasing role in shaping the schools in Peru, Kenya and Morocco, movement at home. Bishop Conti and help for people affected by flooding joined a Scottish delegation lobbying in Bolivia. Seeking to build a sense of MPs at Westminster in May 1981 to solidarity between our overseas partners promote a more just international and people here at home, we developed society and protest against government a match-funding scheme for schools cuts in overseas aid. and parishes, to double the money they raised for particular projects. That year, Sr Carmel wrote from the After the death of our first President- Good Shepherd Convent at Mysore, Sewing classes and education promoted in Kenya in 1984; St John Paul II poster ahead of his Treasurer, Bishop Foylan, in May 1976, India: “All of us here who read the visit in 1982. Bishop of Aberdeen was Scottish Catholic Observer are grateful appointed to the role in February 1978. to God, your Lordship and all the The gave an incredible generous people for the help given £100,000 to SCIAF during this year, by SCIAF to their poorer brothers and helping to support refugees in Vietnam, sisters, not only in India but in other people affected by war in Lebanon poor countries. For us your donation is and people who lost their homes after not only a great financial aid, but also flooding in North Korea. an assurance that God wants us to open Bishop Conti reviewed our work and a special section where children may helped to re-shape it over the following receive primary education and develop years, with a renewed focus on funding their skills so that they may become substantial, long-term work, education self-supporting. If there were 20 Mother of people at home and an understanding Teresas in India, help would still be of the politics of aid and development. needed.”

SCIAF shows much concern for poor communities and underprivileged groups in society and has been a concrete sign of solidarity with the less privileged brothers and sisters of South Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world. Father Raimundo Rocha of the Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan where we’ve been working to help bring peace. 12 13 1982 was a huge year for Scottish that sense of confidence in our youth been extremely conscious of the need Catholics, as Pope John Paul II visited and parish work throughout the 1980s. to create a greater understanding of THEY DOUBLED THEIR MONEY our small country. Speaking to young In 1983 with Bishop Conti’s the problems facing the developing AND HELPED DEAF people at Murrayfield he said: “There encouragement, the Bishops’ countries. It is vital, therefore, that is no place in your lives for apathy or people be given the opportunity of Conference moved ‘SCIAF Sunday’ A Scots primary school with only 210 indifference to the world around you. discovering the basic facts.” from September to the 4th Sunday in pupils has raised a staggering £910 for There is no place in the Church for Lent, as it has remained ever since. This In 1984 the world woke up to famine in deaf people in Kenya – and “doubled selfishness... Do not let the sight of the allowed us to better set education and Africa. We launched our ‘Crisis in Africa its money” in doing so. Under a pound- world in turmoil shake your confidence prayer materials in their liturgical context appeal’ to help communities in Ethiopia. for-pound agreement with SCIAF the in Jesus. Not even the threat of nuclear and greatly improved our relationships Generous supporters quickly gave SCIAF Keruggoya School for the Deaf will in fact war. Remember his words: ‘Be brave: with schools and parishes. SCIAF also over £500,000 for emergency food and receive £1820. I have conquered the world’. There is gained our first full time employee with water plus seeds and farming tools to It took St Joseph’s primary school in nothing that you cannot master with the recruitment of Duncan MacLaren help people get back on their feet. Total Cardowan, Stepps less than a year to the help of the One who gives you as Education Officer. Bishop Conti said donations that year were over £1million raise the money through a sponsored strength.” SCIAF sought to embody of the appointment: “We have always for the first time. silence, cake and candy sales, a coffee morning and other activities. Last year the same school raised £600 for SCIAF’s support has made a Nigerian leper colony, and this sum a difference to communities was also doubled by SCIAF. This year, because of the economic squeeze, it in which Nduwamahoro is aimed its target at £500. working. These communities “We never expected to raise anything are made up of returning like £910”, says assistant head Mrs Elizabeth Kelly. “But these children are refugees, ex-fighters and really something out of the ordinary.” internally displaced people Scottish Catholic Observer, 19th June 1977 who had suffered from the civil wars in Burundi between 1972 and 1993. With this ‘HELPING THE WORLD’ support, they regained hope in the future. They Third and Fourth year pupils in St. Gerard’s Secondary in Govan are live together peacefully raising awareness for development today and are rebuilding charities including SCIAF, with their Lenten appeal reaching £156 so far. life on values of mutual Teacher Denis Bruce said “In an acceptance, tolerance, non- area of very high unemployment it is violence, human dignity, and humbling to see the compassion and reconciliation. generosity our campaign has aroused. It is as much about getting people Ntakarutimana Barthélemy, to care about the problems as about raising funds.” Nduwamohoro, SCIAF Scottish Catholic Observer, partner in Burundi th Emergency food aid helped Ethiopians hit by the famine in 1984 (photo: Caritas) 13 April 1984

14 15 THINGS WE CAN ALL DO FOR INTERNATIONAL AID

• Go and see your local MP at a local unionists and find out about the surgery. wages and working conditions of your • Get the strength of numbers behind company’s Third World employees. you. Raise [the issues] at your • When you are shopping, think of the local trade union branch, tenants’ origins of the articles you buy. If you association, Church group, political know that they are produced by Third party branch or whatever organisation World labour paid at subsistence level, you’re a member of. see if there’s any alternative. • Take up development issues in letters • In Scotland we consume far more to your national or local newspaper. than our share of the world’s scarce • Almost 1 in 5 workers in Scotland’s resources – energy, minerals, food. manufacturing industries are Try and cut out wasteful or excessive employed by overseas companies, consumption. many of which also have operations in the Third World. Get together Scottish Catholic Observer, with your fellow workers and trade 18th September 1981

SCIAF IN SIGHT OF £100,000

SCIAF looks set to pass the £100,000 mark Under SCIAF’s “pound-for-pound” scheme for the first time since its annual appeal the money will be doubled and sent to started 12 years ago. The news announced help the building of a family centre in by Bishop Mario Conti of Aberdeen marks Lima, Peru. a tremendous achievement. SCIAF raised SCIAF’s aim is to assist self-help projects £4,373 in its first annual appeal and the in the Third World, but it also responds to Emergency aid given to Vietnam refugees in 1978 (photo: Caritas). total for the first financial year in 1966 was disaster appeals. SCIAF sent £2,000 for the £10,360. Vietnam refugees last week, and a £3,000 Working in Supporter Services has made me acutely aware of cheque for the victims of the Lebanon war Bishop Conti said, “In 1968 the total the thousands of people who care and want to join us in our is being sent out before Christmas. was £39,400, so if ten years later it endeavours to build a just world. On a daily basis I see campaign exceeds £100,000 it will be a massive Bishop Conti became President and postcards for trade justice and pictures drawn by school children on Treasurer of SCIAF in November last year, increase indeed.” Bishop Conti made global citizenship. It renews my faith in humanity and reminds me of his prediction while at St Bride’s Primary and Mr John McKee has been Honorary the many working around the world to fight poverty. School Cambuslang last Friday; to accept Secretary since its inception. a £1,000 cheque raised by parishioners of Scottish Catholic Observer, Anne Karlin, our Supporter Services St Bride’s to mark their parish centenary. 22nd December 1978

16 17 BUILDING A SENSE OF SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE (1985-94)

“SCIAF is proud of its record of always keeping this true notion of development in view. It is about PEOPLE, rather than things. It is helping people to help themselves, especially in freeing them from conditions that crush and oppress them – conditions that are unworthy of human beings and an insult to their dignity.” Bishop John Mone, SCIAF President, 1985

In 1985 Bishop Mone took over the kidnapping, imprisonment and terror reins from Bishop Conti as our Bishop as the means of total control of the President. That same year, Duncan country and ruthless suppression of MacLaren became the first Executive human rights…So much beauty, so Director of SCIAF, remaining in the role much friendliness, so much suffering, so until moving to as first Director of much need. Pray that Christ’s gifts to Programmes and then Secretary General the world of peace and reconciliation of Caritas Internationalis from 1995 until may be granted and accepted in a very 2007. He quickly recognised that SCIAF special way in Guatemala, Nicaragua had to employ a small staff to find and and throughout Central America.” monitor good projects that transformed Bishop Taylor produced a full report people’s lives and engage with the on his visit condemning the oppression other Catholic agencies in advocacy, of the people and recommending education and campaigning work. This increased aid for Guatemala and recommendation was welcomed by the pressure from the UK government to Bishops’ Conference. SCIAF became respect human rights. a member of CIDSE (International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity), a group of Catholic aid agencies from Europe and North SCIAF SAYS ‘THANKS A America, and Caritas Internationalis, the MILLION’ TO BISHOP CONTI AS confederation of 165 Catholic agencies INCOME QUADRUPLES FROM and one of the largest humanitarian £250,000 IN 1983 networks in the world. SCIAF remains an active member of both these Catholic Bishop Mone paid tribute to the families, sharing resources and ideas, energetic leadership of Bishop Conti and amplifying our voice. and said “I am grateful for this new In 1985, Bishop Maurice Taylor of opportunity to serve those most in Galloway visited Guatemala for SCIAF, need and I am hopeful that the media meeting young widows who had will continue to help…in making the been provided with pigs to give the public even more conscious of their families an income, and wrote movingly responsibility towards the needy”. of his experiences. “Centuries of Scottish Catholic Observer, oppression and exploitation have led January 18th 1985 An Ethiopian women harvests her crops in 1991 following the famine in the 80s to a recent history, still continuing, of (photo: Sean Sprague). military dictatorship employing murder,

18 19 The promotion of justice is at the heart of a true culture of WHY IS A CHILD BORN TO DIE? solidarity. It is not just a question of ‘giving one’s surplus’ to “It is a question all responsible Christians Scottish MPs and MEPs, as well as the those in need but of helping entire peoples presently excluded must ask themselves, because the Prime Minister and Foreign Office, calls and marginalised to enter the sphere of economic and human poverty and deprivation that exists in the aid to the poor a ‘prime demand of the Third World could be eradicated.” Gospel’ and urges the government to development. For this to happen, it is not enough to draw on “Fearing that the Government was implement key reforms.” the surplus goods which in fact our world abundantly produces; it going to cut the overseas aid budget, Scottish Catholic Observer SCIAF requires above all a change of lifestyles, of models of production the Scottish Bishops issued a strong statement protesting against such a Supplement 1985. (The SCO encouraged and consumption, and of the established structures of power which readers to write to MPs in support of move and calling for an improvement in today govern societies. both the quantity and the quality of aid. this letter, and to let SCIAF know the The Bishops’ letter, which was sent to all outcome.) St John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, paragraph 58, 1991

In 1988, after 23 years in a disused Mone wrote: “Gone are the days of Our Silver Jubilee in 1990 marked 25 In 1992 the Holy Father asked Catholics classroom in Rutherglen, we moved to a patronising giving of the rich to the years of Scottish people helping their to pay special attention to the Americas, new premises in Oswald Street in the poor, of the European to the African. brothers and sisters overseas. “To where “Five centuries of the Gospel’s centre of Glasgow. Bishop John Mone We now know that the most important celebrate the birthday of an organisation presence on that continent have not wrote, “I am very grateful to Mgr Gillen, thing is to know each other as children which exists to alleviate misery may produced a fair distribution of the his predecessors at St Columbkille’s, and of God and to share with each other. seem ironic, but the net experience goods of the earth”. SCIAF’s Lenten the parishioners for allowing us to camp SCIAF does this on your behalf by has been one of bringing great hope appeal was themed “Listening to the out in their property for so long.” The supporting emergency and long term cry of the poor”, with a special Way of to people,” said Duncan MacLaren. offices were opened by Chris Patten, development projects among some of the Cross from Latin America, drawn by The keynote speaker at a conference Minister for Overseas Development, on the poorest communities in Asia, Africa Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Perez 4 April. and Latin America. That partnership to celebrate the jubilee was Fr Mark Esquivel. Raper SJ, International Director of Jesuit In 1989 we launched a postcard means always upholding the dignity of Refugee Service (JRS), still a SCIAF In 1993 John McKee received a special campaign to urge the UK government the poor, listening and learning from the partner today. award from Pope John Paul II in to stop propping up the apartheid poor and sharing their concerns.” regime in South Africa. Apartheid was condemned as evil by Archbishop Winning and Bishop John Mone who, with Sr Mary Kilpatrick of the Scottish SCIAF’S APPEAL RAISES AN EXTRACT FROM ‘TWELVE HISTORY-MAKING MONTHS – 1992’ Justice and Peace Commission and £250,000 SCIAF Executive Director, Duncan February: “Guatemalan Civil Rights Composer James MacMillan, the Scottish MacLaren, had visited South Africa as SCIAF has announced that their £100,000 activists Rigoberta Menchu, later to win Chamber Orchestra and actress Diana guests of the South African Bishops’ appeal for famine relief to Ethiopia has the Nobel Peace Prize visits Glasgow as a Quick combine to perform a celebration Conference earlier that same year. The raised one and a half times the original guest of SCIAF” of the music and culture of South figure expected. America.” campaign was strongly supported by October: “One of SCIAF’s most Justice and Peace, the Catholic Mothers’ Scottish Catholic Observer, ambitious fundraising events takes Scottish Catholic Observer, Union and other church groups. 15th January 1988 place in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow. 1st January 1993 The theme for our Lenten campaign in 1989 was partnership. Bishop John

20 21 recognition of his service to the Catholic he had never seen a white man before. I Church in his community and country. had a biscuit in my pocket I’d been given “The lives of people in Mundri have changed a great deal… “It is a great pleasure for me to let you to keep me going through the day. I Your money is being used for the intended purpose. There is no and Margaret know that the Holy Father gave it to the wee boy and he straight has conferred upon you the Papal Award away went over to the other children comparison between the area that SCIAF activities are being of Knight Commander with Star of the nearby and shared the biscuit with them. implemented and where the activities have not reached. There Order of St Gregory. This is an honour That taught me about solidarity and not only for you and your family, but sharing – it is not enough to say ‘would is a big difference. We encourage SCIAF to keep up the spirit to also for the Diocese and I should like you like some?’ but ‘please share this continue funding this work”. to say how delighted I am that your with me’. We must be true companions outstanding witness in your life’s work of the poor, eating bread with them. If May Kilemeko, from SCIAF partner Mundri Relief and has been recognised not only by us, but we are to eat bread with them, we must Development Association, South Sudan by the Holy Father,” wrote Archbishop first give them the bread they need to Thomas Winning. share with us. That is the missionary In September 1993 we launched a aspect of SCIAF.” Charter for Africa. Religious orders and That same year we were able to send The 14 years I spent at SCIAF was a privileged roller-coaster ride groups throughout Scotland signed £115,000 to a water programme in that showed me that the struggle for human dignity is never- up to show their solidarity with Africa. Gedo, Somalia. Duncan McLaren wrote, “An important ending. Above all, the memories are of the people who made aspect of the Charter is to persuade SCIAF more than an agency. It was faith in action. There were people to simplify their lifestyle as a way of being in solidarity with Africa and the highs and lows. Like the day in November 1998 when we heard of poor throughout the world.” Supporters THE SCHOOL WHERE SANTA the murder of the six Jesuits in El Salvador. In 1999, standing in the were urged to write to their MPs to BROUGHT NO PRESENTS encourage more action for Africa. chapel where Archbishop Romero could see his murderer take aim Greyfriars Primary School in St Andrews through a window made me realise that working for global justice That year, Bishop Mone travelled asked Santa to donate money to the to Somalia, meeting people in very starving millions of Somalia instead of cost some of our brothers and sisters much more than a charitable difficult circumstances. In an interview giving them presents, and added £275 donation…SCIAF still serves to remind us of the words of Jesus in December 2014, Bishop Mone said: to their annual total of £1,300 to SCIAF’s “In Somalia, people were very angry, work in Somalia. himself, ‘There is no need for them to go away: give them food they threw stones at us. It was the time yourselves’ (Matthew, 14:16). of famine in 1993. ‘Why haven’t you Scottish Catholic Observer, th brought us food?’ While I was talking to 8 January 1993 John Dornan, Education Officer, SCIAF 1986-2000 them, a little boy kept stroking my arm –

SCIAF is all about people: people in Scotland, and people in Having grown up in Glasgow, fundraising for SCIAF was very much developing countries, coming together in solidarity and working part of my childhood. I still remember being encouraged to bring for a more just and fairer world. Poverty doesn’t need to exist – it’s coins in to tape to the school assembly hall floor in a bid to cover created by us and it’s a scandal that we can’t ignore. SCIAF is a way it for SCIAF and learning about what the money would do. I was to challenge that injustice – and it’s an expression of the love of the always inspired by the work of SCIAF but never actually imagined Church and the love of God for each and every person on earth. that I would get the opportunity to work here. Patrick Grady, SCIAF Campaigns Officer 2002-2004, and Advocacy Aisling Gallacher, one of our Programme Officers Manager since 2011

22 23 FROM TRAGEDY IN RWANDA TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY (1995-2004)

“The poor and the hungry, the sick and the persecuted are still with us, not because it was unavoidable, but as a result of economic and political decisions. These decisions are made consciously by governments and multinational companies. They are also sustained by our way of life and unconscious consumer habits – the things we buy to eat, drink, wear and use – which can have a devastating effect on the economics of faraway countries.” Bishops’ Conference pastoral letter on development for SCIAF’s 30th anniversary, 1995.

In 1995 with the help of the Scottish work towards unity and reconciliation in Catholic community, we reached out to Rwanda through the Justice and Peace people devastated by an earthquake in Commission of the , Iran, a cyclone in Bangladesh and the especially in the traditional court known genocide in Rwanda. as Gacaca which helped people to come Bishop Mone, President of SCIAF wrote back together after the genocide in in his Lenten message in 1995, “Who 1994. can forget the tragedy of Rwanda? “SCIAF supported our work towards Through your donations and prayers you fighting against sexual violence, and were there and still are there with them. women victims of sexual violence On behalf of the Catholic Church in regained hope. Now, we are witnessing Scotland, I thank you”. change thanks to the Self Help Group Zacharie Ndayishimiye of SCIAF partner approach introduced by SCIAF where the Episcopal Commission for Justice vulnerable women work together in and Peace reports: solidarity towards a better living and run small savings and loans schemes. “The support of SCIAF has been These women, previously victims of bearing tremendous fruit in our local violence and poverty, are continually communities in Rwanda. It is important improving the living conditions of their to say that SCIAF contributed to our households”.

The Church continually combats all forms of poverty, because as Mother she is concerned that each and every person be able to live fully in dignity as a child of God. St John Paul II, Lenten message, 1998

People were able to return to their homes after the genocide in Rwanda (photo: Paul McSherry).

24 25 Scotland and of England and Wales Also in 1999, SCIAF was invited by published a challenging statement on the incoming Labour government to poverty and debt. “This is not just assist with its international aid policy, another international development specifically its development awareness initiative but a once-in-a-generation programmes. Our Chief Executive, opportunity to break the chains of Paul Chitnis, was one of several senior debt which shackle the hopes of the figures appointed to the Development world’s poorest people.” (Life, Debt and Awareness Working Group to advise the Jubilee, p.2, 1999). new Ministers.

BUCKETS OF FUN IN CROY

James Slavin of the SCIAF group in Holy at all the Masses so that people knew Cross Parish Croy, looks back on a great who we were. We followed this up with a year. collection that raised £500. Our second bucket collection was February this The Holy Cross Group had its beginning year (2001) in response to the terrible just as the year 2000 arrived. In 16 Your support meant we could help people grow more earthquakes in India and El Salvador. On months parishioners have donated food and access clean water (photo: Sean Sprague). this occasion we raised an astonishing £4,200 to SCIAF, in addition to the £1700. regular Lenten campaigns and SCIAF Sunday collections. We are soon to hold our second quiz night in the Croy Miners’ Welfare Our group of five meet once every two In the 30 years leading up to 1995, leaving the office in Oswald Street Club. Our overheads are low as one of months. At the beginning we looked at Scottish Catholics had given over which had grown too small and our multi-talented group acts as joint many projects SCIAF supports, but opted £22million to help people in poverty impractical. The Franciscan Sisters quizmaster. The club committee allows us instead for our first year to focus on overseas. We were able to fund over were preparing to leave their convent free use of the hall and our parishioners awareness raising and fund raising, and 150 projects in 1996 thanks to your help with raffle prizes. at 19 Park Circus, and SCIAF was able allow SCIAF to choose how the money generosity in our 30th year. 70 schools to acquire the building for an excellent could be used. Equally enjoyable was our St Andrews and youth groups took part in our price. The staff enjoyed the new light Night Ceilidh last December when the largest ever ‘Act Fast’ Lenten fast. Our most successful fund raisers have and space, although there was (and Inishowen Ceilidh band provided great been bucket collections taken after the In January 1996, Paul Chitnis joined still is) some debate about an anti- demonstrations. It was a brilliant evening. weekend Masses. David, one of our SCIAF as our Director. Duncan poverty organisation taking up such youngest parishioners, asked his mother Although only a small group we are MacLaren moved to Rome. The a prestigious address. The building Marion what they do with all the buckets delighted to have been able to pass on following year, our Liberate the Land remains great value and a much-loved when they have been collected! £4200 towards the vital work of SCIAF, Lenten campaign helped communities in asset today, although staff can find it thanks to the generosity and support of offers little protection from the cold of a The first bucket collection was in Brazil, India and the Philippines. Pupils the Holy Cross Parish. from St Ambrose High School slept in Glasgow winter. February 2000, when we spoke to the parish about the newly formed group SCIAF Review magazine, May 2001 temporary shelters in the Meadows By 1999 SCIAF called for debt justice in Edinburgh, to show solidarity with through the Jubilee 2000 campaign, people being forced from their homes. (The Holy Cross SCIAF group have since then continued to raise funds for seeking an end to unjust debt as we SCIAF most notably through an annual quiz night. Our thanks to them and all approached the millennium. The In 1999 with an expanding staff team parish groups for their invaluable support to SCIAF over all the years.) and income, SCIAF moved premises, Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of

26 27 In 2001 our Lenten Campaign brought At this time, SCIAF, VETAID, Christian together rivals Ally McCoist Aid and Oxfam collaborated to set and to launch our 24 hour up the Network of International HUNGRY FOR JUSTICE fast. Tommy, a lifelong SCIAF supporter Development Organisations in Scotland and Celtic legend, asked his friend (NIDOS) while also working with George Hungry for Justice may be the theme of As Sheelu explained, Hunger for Justice Ally to get involved and unite the two Reid MSP, then Deputy Presiding Officer the 2002 SCIAF Lenten Campaign, but is an ideal she holds close to her heart largest football teams in Scotland for of the Scottish Parliament, to set up for the charity’s Lenten visitor the phrase after years of fighting injustice in India. SCIAF. Ally has been a SCIAF supporter a cross-party group on international captures perfectly her motto for life. This Sheelu comes from a long background ever since, continuing his support after development. On NIDOS’s formal year Sheelu Francis from the Tamil Nadu of social action, with her father a the death of his friend Tommy in 2008. registration as a charity in 2003, SCIAF’s Women’s Collective in India will tour trade unionist and both of her parents Tommy Burns will always be missed by Director Paul Chitnis was appointed members of the Legion of Mary. SCIAF. We thank him and Celtic FC for its first Chair. Today NIDOS has 113 Scotland as the Catholic charity’s Lenten all their support. member organisations and continues to visitor. Through her own involvement with the Over the last four years the Women’s Legion Sheelu visited broken families Collective has received over £167,000 and prisoners in jail and as a student from Scotland’s Catholic community, was a member of the All India Catholic enabling them to work with 35 women- University Federation and National led organisations to improve the living Service. Her experiences there gave conditions of families in India. During her the opportunity to meet with poor Lent Sheelu will represent the collective and marginalised communities in both in Scotland, delivering talks throughout rural and urban areas and to gain an understanding of poverty. the country on the conditions in which she works and lives. Scottish Catholic Observer, 5th April 2002

grow. SCIAF has retained a close and Conferences of Scotland and of England supportive interest in NIDOS, helping and Wales published a statement on it develop into an influential network trade and solidarity, in association with and excellent skills-sharing forum for SCIAF and CAFOD. “The Church’s the Scottish international development ‘preferential option for the poor’ leads movement. us to believe that the rules governing In 2003 we launched Real Gifts for the global financial and economic systems, first time – life-changing presents which including trade, must be guided also by give people living in poverty the chance principles of solidarity and compassion. of a better future. Since then over £3 We therefore hold that the notion of million has been donated through Real ‘trade justice’ must embody measures to Gifts. Many Scots families now have benefit the poorest, to counterbalance a SCIAF pig on their fridge! Families the enormous disadvantages that weigh feed and nurture pigs until they’re big them down from the start” (Trade and enough to sell. When the sows farrow, Solidarity, p.8, 2003). the piglets can be sold to earn extra In 2004-5, our supporters gave income to pay for other essentials like an astonishing £2.2 million to our school fees and medicines. Emergency Appeal following the Scottish football legends Tommy Burns and Ally McCoist The same year, the Bishops’ horrifying Boxing Day Tsunami in Asia. take part in SCIAF’s 24-hour fast in Lent 2001.

28 29 FR MARTIN CHAMBERS ZIP-LINES ACROSS CLYDE FOR SCIAF

One fearless Father made a leap of faith home in Ethiopia.” last weekend, swinging across the Clyde For Father Chambers the Zip Slide across for a very worthy cause. Father Martin the Clyde was not the most daunting Chambers, parish priest at St John’s in challenge he has faced in aid of a good Stevenston, donned a hard hat recently to cause. In recent years the priest has join the SCIAF Zip-Slide Challenge. jumped out of a plane and climbed The slide ran from the blue Finnieston Britain’s three highest peaks in 24 hours, Crane, beside the Glasgow SECC, across but even he admitted to feeling a few the River Clyde to the opposite bank goose-bumps when climbing the crane. and was tackled by a number of hardy adventurers in a variety of “ages, shapes “The slide was fine actually, the scariest and sizes.” Before taking part each person thing was climbing the Finnieston crane, had to raise a target figure for SCIAF’s you could see through the slats and vital work overseas and the day was see just how high up you were” said Fr deemed a fantastic success by the charity. Chambers. “My legs started to turn to jelly on about the second flight but I had Robert Russell, Fundraising Officer, said: Ian Menzies of SCIAF in front of me and “We asked every participant to raise a people behind me and there was no minimum of £100. This may not seem turning back.” With your help many people were able to recover from the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami much but it only costs £120 to educate a (photo: Sean Sprague). Rwandan child or £276 to build a family Scottish Catholic Observer, 6th June 2003

Alongside our sister agencies in Caritas “In Uganda I met a woman with AIDS Internationalis, we worked urgently to who was living in a cardboard box. She get assistance to people in Indonesia, The Jubilee was also a great event of charity — and it could not suddenly asked, ‘Can we pray?’ I thought Thailand, India and Sri Lanka. After the of a prayer to recite. She gently told me, be otherwise. Already in the years of preparation, I had called for tsunami, we helped communities to build ‘I don’t want you to say a prayer. I want greater and more incisive attention to the problems of poverty new homes and get back on their feet. you to pray with me. I want to ask God which still beset the world. The problem of the international debt In 2004 Bishop Mone retired and Bishop to look after my husband who gave me Peter Moran became President of SCIAF. AIDS, my children who will be left alone, of poor countries took on particular significance in this context. A Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien began my mother who is dying…’ gesture of generosity towards these countries was in the very spirit travelling to see SCIAF projects, and took the role of Chair of the SCIAF Board. Our “I was enriched through my travels with of the Jubilee, which in its original Biblical setting was precisely founder John McKee sadly passed away SCIAF. I learned so much, met so many a time when the community committed itself to re-establishing the same year. In an interview, Bishop beautiful people and was touched by John Mone said in December 2014: their generosity. I said a Mass in Kenya justice and solidarity in interpersonal relations, including the return in Kiswahili – it was five hours long with “I’d ask SCIAF to keep doing more of the of whatever belonged to others. same. To thank the volunteers who are 3000 people attending. The offertory took three quarters of an hour with St John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, the lifeblood of SCIAF. And to thank God for the blessings that have come through people bringing an onion, an orange Novo Millennio Ineunte, paragraph 14, 2000 SCIAF to so many people at home and – whatever they had. I baptised 250 abroad. I pray that we will never have children that day. I thought - this is the compassion fatigue in our community. poor feeding the rich.” 30 31 THE SCIAF FAMILY (2005-2015)

“Love of neighbour, grounded in the love of God, is first and foremost a responsibility for each individual member of the faithful, but it is also a responsibility for the entire ecclesial community at every level: from the local community to the particular Church and to the Church universal in its entirety. As a community, the Church must practise love.” Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, paragraph 20, 2005

In April 2005, Pope John Paul II passed embrace of some of the poorest people away, and Pope Benedict XVI was in the world were a vivid demonstration elected. Reflecting on his legacy, Paul not only of his humanity, but also of the Chitnis wrote: “Central to Pope John Church’s mission.” Paul II’s papacy was his social teaching. In 2005, our 40th year, we joined the It was of such power and magnitude Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh that it will continue to inspire the Church and campaigned for the Prime Minister, for years to come. His travels and vast Tony Blair, to ‘Make Aid Work’ at the G8 teaching about the inequities (and summit in Gleneagles. That same year, iniquity) of poverty in the developing Paul Chitnis was elected President of world are a reminder of the growing CIDSE, the network of Catholic overseas gap between rich and poor. His development agencies in Europe and many journeys, as well as being an North America. In 2005 and again in extraordinary act of evangelisation, were 2007, Cardinal O’Brien and Paul Chitnis also a way of revealing to the rest of the were part of an international delegation world hidden countries and communities of senior Catholic figures (including often languishing in poverty. In every Cardinals Rodriguez and Toppo) which country I visit with SCIAF, I usually find lobbied G8 leaders directly in London, a dog-eared poster attached to the Berlin, Rome, and Brussels. wall of a school or a rural clinic showing Pope John Paul II during his visit to We marked our 40th anniversary with a that country. His presence and tender major conference in Livingston involving

Young organisations have few chances of being supported by big organisations …then SCIAF came to our aid. SARD-Net members look at SCIAF as a mother … who has made a great impact on development and rural communities. I think your organisation has reached many disadvantaged people. Although the process is slow because of the despair that poverty has brought to poor communities, I am sure that working together we can change the world into a better place with humanity living with dignity. Kayondo Mathias of SCIAF partner SARD-Net (Sustainable Farmers get help to grow more food and support their families (photo: Simon Murphy). Agriculture for Rural Development Network) in Uganda 32 33 partners from India, Colombia and we have opportunity, let us do good to Rwanda. Mass was celebrated at the all, and especially to those who are of the Jesuit Sacred Heart Church in Edinburgh. household of faith’.” Scotland’s First Minister, Jack McConnell, In 2009, Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe spoke at a reception held at the City visited schools and parishes around Chambers in Glasgow. Gordon Brown, Scotland. In Gulu, northern Uganda, she then Chancellor of the Exchequer, spoke provides a safe haven for girls who were at a special event in St Mary’s Cathedral, kidnapped and turned into child soldiers Edinburgh. In his tribute, he said: “It is a during the brutal civil war. They get privilege to be here because it also gives counselling and training in dressmaking me the chance to thank you – SCIAF – and cookery so that they can rebuild not just for the work done in a month or their lives and provide for their children. a year, but as you celebrate your fortieth Parishioners and school pupils flocked anniversary, for the work done over to meet this amazing and inspirational four great decades of achievement… woman. She would later feature in Time Whenever help is needed, whenever Magazine’s list of the most influential 100 and wherever there is disease, illiteracy, people in 2014, after the launch of her poverty and need, SCIAF is there, and film, Sewing Hope. ready to help.” In the same year, Pope Benedict XVI The same year, Pope Benedict XVI’s published his major social encyclical, important encyclical, Deus Caritas Est Caritas in Veritate. A remarkable was published. Setting out the Church’s document in its breadth and depth, theology of love, and charting its history covering the global economic crisis, of charitable service from the earliest years, it set out clear expectations for the charitable organisations of the Church. Supporters young and old urged MSPs to vote for strong climate change legislation in Christian charity is distinctive; SCIAF ST BRENDAN’S PRIMARY IN Scotland (photo: Callum Bennett, Maverick Photo Agency). should not become ‘just another NGO’. MOTHERWELL BECOMES THE “The Church is God’s family in the FIRST UK PRIMARY TO MARK FAIRTRADE world. In this family no one ought to go climate change, and the role of the peace and stability of the planet.” without the necessities of life,” writes technology in human development, St Brendan’s Primary in Motherwell (paragraph 27, 2009) Pope Benedict in Deus Caritas Est in it would help shape SCIAF’s work for has become the first UK primary to be Throughout 2009, thousands of SCIAF paragraph 25. He continues, “Yet at many years to come. “Hunger still awarded the Fairtrade Foundation mark. supporters sent postcards, emails and the same time caritas - agape - extends reaps enormous numbers of victims The award was presented to the school letters to politicians and marched to the beyond the frontiers of the Church. The among those who, like Lazarus, are not by Ian Menzies of SCIAF. Frank Roy and parable of the Good Samaritan remains permitted to take their place at the Scottish Parliament calling for tough three North councillors were as a standard which imposes universal rich man’s table, contrary to the hopes action on climate change. In June, also at the presentation. love towards the needy whom we expressed by Paul VI. Feed the hungry we could celebrate success - cross- encounter ‘by chance’ (cf. Luke 10:31), To celebrate the event a mini conference (cf. Mt 25: 35, 37, 42) is an ethical party support saw the Climate Change whoever they may be. Without in any was held in the morning and in the imperative for the universal Church, as (Scotland) Act agreed, which set world- way detracting from this commandment afternoon a Fairtrade Party was held for she responds to the teachings of her leading targets for cutting carbon of universal love, the Church also has a all pupils and staff. The Radio Clyde Hit Founder, the Lord Jesus, concerning emissions. In September 2009, Cardinal specific responsibility: within the ecclesial Squad came along to help teachers and solidarity and the sharing of goods. O’Brien and Paul Chitnis were part of a family no member should suffer through pupils celebrate. Moreover, the elimination of world delegation to lobby leaders at the United being in need. The teaching of the Letter Scottish Catholic Observer, 8th July 2005 hunger has also, in the global era, Nations in New York for the Special to the Galatians is emphatic: ‘So then, as become a requirement for safeguarding Summit on Climate Change.

34 35 SCIAF has been a faithful, generous and reliable supporter of the Comboni mission in South Sudan and is helping to empower and build the capacity of local leaders, especially women and youth, in the various Christian communities the Comboni Missionaries work with across South Sudan. Particular attention and support has been given in the areas of Christian and human formation, education, human rights, gender equality, peace building, reconciliation, trauma healing and care for the environment. We are pleased and proud to be a SCIAF partner and work together for a better world where more people may have access to justice and to live in a peaceful and reconciled world. Father Raimundo Rocha of the Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan where SCIAF has been working to help bring peace Thousands of you signed our campaign postcard. Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a Prayer for peace in South Sudan voice to the cry of the poor. God of love, mercy and compassion, Peace begins with me. Pope Francis, Address to the Archbishop of Canterbury, June 2013 As I pray, help me to find the gift of peace in my heart, Help me to share this gift with others, On 12th January 2010 the world woke SCIAF was glad to be able to report As I long for peace, help me to remember our brothers and sisters in South Sudan up to news of a devastating earthquake that we easily met the standards he set. Who are struggling in the midst of hurt and mistrust in Haiti, and SCIAF supporters quickly In 2013 unexpected events changed To build their lives and promote respect, justice and true reconciliation. gave over £1million to our emergency the Catholic world as Pope Benedict We ask this through Christ our Lord. appeal. Thanks to these donations, resigned and Pope Francis was Amen. 110,000 people could get food, elected. Pope Francis has put the poor Sudan Bishops’ Conference water, shelter, and medical care. at the centre of his pontificate and With your help, through our long encouraged the faithful to follow his term development programme we’re example. Pope Francis also stresses still helping communities in Haiti to In carrying out their charitable activity, Catholic organizations should ridding the world of structural poverty rebuild their lives. The same year, we – the poverty caused by the economic not limit themselves merely to collecting and distributing funds, but joined thousands of Scots at events in and social structures put in place Glasgow and Edinburgh during Pope should show special concern for individuals in need and exercise a by the ‘rich’ world. In his Apostolic Benedict XVI’s hugely successful visit to Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, the valuable educational function within the Christian community, helping the UK. Joy of the Gospel, he says, “Just as the people to appreciate the importance of sharing, respect and love in In 2011, Paul Chitnis left the post of commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets the spirit of the Gospel of Christ. The Church’s charitable activity at all Chief Executive of SCIAF, to become a clear limit in order to safeguard the Director of Jesuit Missions in London. value of human life, today we also have levels must avoid the risk of becoming just another form of organized In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI developed to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy social assistance. new requirements for Catholic charities of exclusion and inequality. Such an with the publication of his motu proprio economy kills. How can it be that it Pope Benedict XVI, Intima Ecclesiae Natura, 2012 (papal edict), On the Service of Charity. is not a news item when an elderly

36 37 Praying with those affected by Ebola We pray from a distance as do mothers, physical expressions of love. husbands, sons and friends. Lord help those affected by Ebola to feel None of us can touch the infected bodies your loving presence, feel your gentle but help us to reach out in prayer and touch of compassion and mercy. touch their hearts and souls. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Broken hearts who long to physically Amen comfort and be comforted and show

with pupils from St Andrews & St £10,000 to Holy Spirit Hospital in Bride’s High School, and Makeni, Sierra Leone and launched St Francis Xavier’s Primary, Falkirk. an emergency appeal to raise money for life-saving medical care, training, In 2014 we launched an urgent appeal surgical gloves and masks, and cleaning for refugees fleeing the war in Syria. products to help stop the disease Our supporters’ generous donations spreading. With generous donations would give over 43,500 people clean from our supporters, we were able to water, blankets, heaters, medical care send £60,000 through Caritas Sierra and schooling for refugee children. We Leone and Caritas Liberia. As part also gave emergency aid to people of the Caritas Internationalis family, caught up in conflicts in Iraq, Gaza, SCIAF has a presence in every country South Sudan, Darfur and Central in the world. When disaster strikes, African Republic. we provide financial and material David Smith M.B.E. and Susan Boyle join us to launch our support through this network of Caritas WEE BOX appeal in 2013 (photo: Paul McSherry). The Board of SCIAF was diversified and strengthened in 2013 and 2014. partners and provide immediate and Under the continuing presidency of effective help to those in most need. Together with our sister agencies in homeless person dies of exposure, but campaign. This important coalition of Bishop Peter Moran, the board now CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis, we it is news when the stock market loses anti-poverty organisations aimed to included five Bishops and three lay also challenge the structures of poverty two points? This is a case of exclusion. focus the minds of politicians coming people, working with three expert sub- and engage with the global decision- Can we continue to stand by when to the UK for the G8 summit in 2013, committees. SCIAF’s new Executive making processes which can do so food is thrown away while people are on the needs of the poorest people. Director, Alistair Dutton, joined the much to address the root causes of starving? This is a case of inequality. Together, we ensured the issues of land organisation in August 2014. In 2015, Bishop Joseph Toal was appointed inequality. Today everything comes under the grabs and tax transparency got on the President of SCIAF as Bishop Peter laws of competition and the survival agenda at the G8 summit and helped From our earliest days in 1965 until the Moran stepped down from that role, of the fittest, where the powerful feed persuade world leaders to pledge $4.1 end of 2014, through the generosity of but remained a member of the SCIAF upon the powerless. As a consequence, billion in extra funding to tackle hunger. the Scottish people and with the help Board. masses of people find themselves Here in Scotland, the government of our institutional donors, SCIAF has excluded and marginalised: without doubled its Climate Justice Fund which Following the outbreak of Ebola in shared funds to the tune of £68 million work, without possibilities, without helps people overseas hit hardest by West Africa during 2014, we sent to help poor people flourish. any means of escape.” (paragraph 53, the changing climate. 2013) Global singing sensation Susan Boyle Caritas is the caress of the Church to its people, the caress of the That year, we joined with over 200 and Paralympic gold-medal winning organisations across the UK for rower David Smith MBE launched our Mother Church to her children, her tenderness and closeness. the Enough Food for Everyone…IF WEE BOX, BIG CHANGE Lenten appeal Pope Francis, 16th May, 2013

38 39 WHAT NEXT FOR SCIAF?

“SCIAF is an opportunity to work, in a small way, for a fairer world.” Fiona Crosbie, SCIAF volunteer

Thanks to fifty years of hard work, prayer – new overseas partners to work with, and commitment from our supporters, new people to engage with, new volunteers, partners and staff, SCIAF international negotiations on anti- has grown into one of the foremost poverty goals, new climate change talks, international development organisations and a growing sense of the important in Scotland. We treasure what is unique role the Church can play to help achieve about us – our deep roots within the real human flourishing. Scottish Catholic community, our vibrant team of volunteers, our wonderful We hope you will join us in this next international network through the chapter of SCIAF’s story. Church which never leaves its people, whatever the dangers. We seek to be an example of Catholic social teaching In January 2015, the Bishops’ in practice, standing alongside the Conference of Scotland declared St poorest people to help them flourish. Margaret of Scotland, patron saint of SCIAF. Our 50th anniversary is a milestone, but it is not a time for celebration. Prayer of Recommitment to SCIAF Widespread poverty and injustice are an affront to all of us, but they remain Inspired by the Gospel call to build a hallmarks of our world. One in nine just world, people are still going hungry every and moved by the suffering of the day and a billion people remain stuck world’s poor, in inhuman circumstances. Climate I renew my commitment to SCIAF. change is already affecting the most For an end to poverty and oppression, marginalised communities, and its give me a generous heart impact will only increase. The rising to share with those who have nothing; power of multinational businesses is not the grace to live more simply balanced by the effective rule of law in so that they may simply live; many countries. Growing inequality, and the perseverance to work together with social and economic unceasingly injustice around the world mean we for a world in which all people, must continue to provide direct, especially those who are poor and practical help to people in the greatest oppressed, need, and to work for an end to the can live life, and live it to the full. causes of poverty. Amen As we look at the world in 2015, there St Margaret of Scotland, pray for us. are many opportunities to work as a Young disabled people in India get an education thanks to your support community to build a more just world (photo: Sephi Bergerson).

40 41 OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY BLESSING

42 43 FINALLY SOME WORDS OF THANKS Rwanda “I’d like to thank SCIAF supporters so TO ALL SCIAF SUPPORTERS FROM … . . much because they are doing a very important work as they are helping to change the lives of vulnerable people; Democratic Republic of Congo Uganda to restore their respect and dignity. By “To the supporters of SCIAF in Scotland, “SCIAF has existed for all this period your kind heart, people feel like human AJV, partner for SCIAF in DRC is pleased because fifty years ago the founders beings again. I encourage you and only to thank you. The support from SCIAF had the capacity of initiating that pray God recognises and will pay back has, is and will continue to help us to organisation and had the will. We thank for all your kindness. reduce the level of sexual violence of God for that will to help that He gives “The support from SCIAF is the most which women are the victims from the to fellow people - those who look at important input our Justice and Peace multiple rebellions and wars in this part the suffering and feel obliged to do Commission has had. SCIAF has core of the world. May the almighty bless and something.” values that attract people and keep With your help thousands of people multiply your resources of funding.” Kayondo Mathias of SARD-Net them together. Since I started working now have clean water Innocent Basaka (AJV) (Sustainable Agriculture for Rural with SCIAF I feel like I am in a family and I consider everyone from SCIAF as my Burundi “We would like to thank organisations, Development Network) brother or sister. With SCIAF’s support, “I would like to sincerely thank all the individuals and other people of good South Sudan people from Batwa communities SCIAF supporters for their generosity will who support SCIAF. Thanks to them (the most vulnerable community in and solidarity to the whole humanity, SCIAF was able to help us to respond “Your support is indeed making a the country) have increasing income particularly to those living in extreme to our people’s needs. And we were big difference in the lives of so many as well as respect and dignity. They poverty and other forms of vulnerability. able to contribute to reduce insecurity impoverished and less privileged people have experienced extreme poverty, I also call them to continue supporting and conflict in our country; thanks to and communities. Please continue discrimination and ignorance. Thanks to our communities living in inhuman SCIAF, we were able to collaborate with donating and supporting SCIAF. May SCIAF, they have organised themselves conditions, because of conflicts, organisations in Rwanda and Burundi God reward your generosity.” and are benefitting from advocacy and violence, bad governance, HIV/AIDS, and this collaboration has reduced the Father Raimundo Rocha, Comboni get different services from government and we still have too many people in fear that the communities from DRC, Missionaries and other stakeholders that they could these conditions in Burundi.” Rwanda and Burundi had between not find before.” them.” “The lives of people in Mundri have Ntakarutimana Barthélemy of changed a great deal… Your money is Emmanuel Benimana of CDJP Nduwamahoro Burundi “Locally, many people were able to Cyangugu regain their physical and emotional being used for the intended purpose. There is no comparison between the Burma/Myanmar health thanks to SCIAF supporters. It “SCIAF supporters should know that the area where SCIAF activities are being has been a great pleasure to see the people we serve are aware about the “We would like to sincerely say “Thank implemented and where the activities survivors of rape and war able to rebuild sacrifice they make and are delighted You” from the bottom of our heart for have not reached. There is a big new lives thanks to the support they by the spirit of promoting a smile where sharing our blessings and hardships. We difference. We encourage SCIAF to got from you. These people are very there was sadness. May joy in your are aiming to becoming a “sustained keep up the spirit to continue funding grateful to all those who support SCIAF hearts dwell and last for your lifetime on community” and “inter-dependent the work”. in different ways and beg them to speak earth and in heaven. God bless you!” organisation.” But this dream would out to denounce all the cases of injustice May Kilemeko, Mundri Relief and not be realised without your continued Zacharie Ndayishimiye of Episcopal in DRC and elsewhere in the world. It is Development Association support. We assure you our prayers.” Commission for Justice and Peace – in this way that people will be free from CEJP Father Stephen Ah Chu (Director) of violence.” KMSS-Kengtung Father Justin Nkunzi (CDJP)

44 45 Malawi school. Without SCIAF support, these INDEX “It is a big THANK YOU to the people children would at best have to suspend of Scotland for the financial and material their studies, if not stop altogether. With support. The helping hand that the SCIAF’s support, about 500 children Africa climate change, action on, 35, 38 people of Scotland have rendered living in poverty and affected by HIV/ Charter for (1993), 22 Colombia, 46 has provided the community the AIDS had their schooling provided. It Ebola epidemic, 3, 39 Columba Trust, 10 needed push to address some of the is apt to say thanks to SCIAF, the way famine (1984), 15 Comboni Missionaries, 13, 36, 44 many challenges faced in improving Cambodians usually do: “We have Ah Chu, Revd Stephen, 45 Conti, Mario, , 13, 14, 16 livelihoods for the poor and protecting nothing but our ten fingers to clasp Asian tsunami (2004), 3, 4, 29–31 Crane, Revd Paul, 11 in homage and prayers to offer you in our environment.” Crosbie, Fiona, 41 gratitude.” Raymond Chimsale of CADECOM Bangladesh cyclone (1995), 8, 25 Chikwawa Diocese Sister Leonor Montiel of SCIAF Barrancabermeja Diocese, Colombia, Social Care, Darfur, 3, 39 partner Maryknoll Seedling of Hope in 47 Democratic Republic of Congo, 5, 44 Cambodia Cambodia Barthélemy, Ntakarutimana, 15, 45 Dornan, John, 23 Basaka, Innocent, 44 DPA Cambodia, 46 “We are constantly encouraged and Colombia Benedict XVI, Pope Dutton, Alistair, 2, 3–4, 39 inspired by the results we see and know Caritas in Veritate, 3, 4, 34–35 that we are making a difference. With “Thank you for the support in terms of Deus Caritas Est, 33, 34 Ebola epidemic, 3, 39 the continued support of SCIAF, as well working to protect the minority and your Intima Ecclesia Natura, 36 El Salvador, 23 as caring, concerned individuals like continued interest in contributing to the visit to Scotland, 37 Enough Food for Everyone... IF campaign, 4, 37, SCIAF supporters in Scotland, we are Diocese by reaching out to those with confident we can touch the lives of many disabilities.” Benimana, Emmanuel, 45 38 poor indigenous people and play a role Cibeles Núñez and Mara Hernandez Biafra (now SE Nigeria), 3, 9 Esquivel, Adolfo Perez, 21 in helping them. I would like to take from Diocese of Barrancabermeja in Bihar, India, 3, 9 Ethiopia, famine (1980s), 3, 14, 18, 20 this opportunity to extend our deepest Colombia- Social care Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, 3, 9, 14, 19, 25, gratitude to SCIAF and the Scottish 26–27, 29 Foylan, Michael, Bishop of Aberdeen, 3, 6, 8, 9, people for their continued support of Zambia Blair, Tony, 33 13 Bolivia, floods (1970s), 13 Francis, Pope, 4, 7, 37, 39, 42 our efforts for over the years as we work “KATC and the farmers greatly Boyle, Susan, 38 Evangelii Gaudium, 37 to bring change to our country.” appreciate this support from SCIAF and Brazil, 26 Francis, Sheelu, 29 all its supporters. The communities Mam Sambath from DPA Cambodia Brown, Gordon, 34 have seen remarkable changes through Bruce, Denis, 15 Gacaca court, Rwanda, 25 “I would like to say thank you for your SCIAF support, including learning new Burma/Myanmar, 45 Gallacher, Aisling, 22 support. On behalf of people living technologies through training, research Burns, Tommy, 28 Gaudium et Spes, 9 with HIV and AIDS I would like SCIAF to and exposure visits. There has also been Burundi, 15, 45 Gaza, refugees, 39 continue to support them in the future” a significant increase in awareness and Gedo, Somalia, 22 knowledge about sustainable agriculture Dr . Kasem Kolnary Cambodian HIV/ CADECOM, Chikwawa Diocese, 46 Gillen, Mgr, 20 AIDS Education and Care (CHEC) across all sectors of the Zambian Economy especially the agriculture Cambodia, 45 Gleneagles, G8 summit (2005), 33 “In Cambodia SCIAF’s support enabled sector.” Cambodian HIV/AIDS Education and Care, 46 Good Shepherd Convent, Mysore, 13 orphan and vulnerable children affected Caritas Internationalis, 19, 29–31, 39 Grady, Patrick, 23 by HIV/AIDS to continue going to Doctor Henrietta Kalinda Kasisi Catholic Education Commission, 10 Greyfriars PS, St Andrews, 22 Agricultural Training Centre Catholic Mothers’ Union, 20 G8 summits, 33, 38 CDJP Cyangugu, 46 Guatemala, 19, 21 CEJP, 46 Gulu, Uganda, 34 Central African Republic, refugees, 39 Chambers, Revd Martin, 30 Haiti earthquake (2010), 3, 37 Chimsale, Raymond, 45 Hernandez, Mara, 46 Chitnis, Paul, 26, 27, 28, 33, 35, 37 Holy Cross, Croy, 27 CIDSE, 19, 33, 39 Holy Spirit Hospital, Makeni, Sierra Leone, 39 46 47 India, 26, 40 Mathias, Kayondo, 10, 33, 44 Sacred Heart, Lauriston, 34 Sri Lanka, tsunami (2004), 3, 4, 31 lepers’ centre, 13 Mennini, Antonio, Archbishop, 42 St Ambrose HS, 26 Sudan Bishops’ Conference, 36 tsunami (2004), 3, 4, 31 Menzies, Ian, 30 St Andrew’s and Saint Bride’s HS, East Kilbride, Sustainable Agriculture for Rural Development Indonesia, tsunami (2004), 3, 4, 31 Mone, John, , 9, 10, 19, 20, 22, 38 Network, Uganda, 10, 33, 44 International Cooperation for Development and 25, 31 St Bride’s, Cambuslang, 16 Syria, 3, 39 Solidarity (CIDSE), 19 Montiel, Sr Leonor, 46 St Columbkille’s, Rutherglen, 6, 9, 10, 20 Iran, earthquake (1995), 25 Moran, Peter A, Bishop of Aberdeen, 6–7, 31, 39 St Francis Xavier’s PS, Falkirk, 38 Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective, 29 Iraq, refugees, 39 Morocco, schools, 13 St Gerard’s HS, Govan, 15 Taylor, Maurice, , 19 Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), 21 Muenchu, Rigoberta, 21 St Joseph’s PS, Cardowan, Stepps, 15 Thailand, tsunami (2004), 3, 4, 31 John Paul II, St, 12, 21–22, 33 Mundri Relief & Development Association, 23, 45 St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, 34 ‘The Third World’ (teachers’ guide), 10 Centesimus Annus, 21 Murray, Revd Ian, 10 Sambath, Mam, 46 Toal, Joseph, , 7, 10, 39 Laborem Exercens, 13 Myanmar, 45 Scanlan, , 10 Toppo, Cardinal, 33 Lenten message (1998), 25 Mysore, India, 13 SCIAF trade justice, 29 Novo Millennio Ineunte, 30 aims, 3, 8, 9, 16 papal visit (1982), 12, 14 Ndayishimiye, Zacharie, 25, 45 ‘Act Fast’ Lenten fast, 26 Uganda, 10, 31, 34, 44 Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, 10 Nduwamohoro, Burundi, 15, 45 25th anniversary (1990), 21 United Nations Jubilee 2000 Debt campaign, 26–27 Network of International Development 30th anniversary (1995), 25 Educational Trust, 10 Justice and Peace Organisations in Scotland (NIDOS), 28–29 40th anniversary (2005), 33–34 Special Summit on Climate Change Pontifical Council for, 10 Nkunzi, Revd Justin, 44 Board, 39 (2009), 35 Scottish commission for, 10, 20 North Korea, floods (1977), 13 Charter for Africa (1993), 22 Núnez, Cibeles, 46 disaster appeals, 16 VETAID, 28 Kalinda, Henrietta, 46 Nyirumbe, Sr Rosemary, 34 early projects, 9, 13 Vietnam, refugees, 3, 13, 17 Karlin, Anne, 17 first Executive Director, 19 Kasisi Agricultural Training College, Zambia, 46 O’Brien, Keith Patrick, Cardinal, 31, 33, 35 first official emises,pr 10 West Africa, Ebola, 3, 39 Kelly, Elizabeth, 15 helps with government international aid Winning, Thomas, Archbishop of Glasgow, 10, Kenya, 12, 13, 31 Patten, Chris, 20 policy (1999), 27 20, 22 Kilemeko, May, 23, 44 Paul, St, 7 income (1965-95), 26 Lenten appeals, 14, 20, 21, 26, 28, 29, 38 Kilpatrick, Sr Mary, 20 Paul VI, Pope, 35 Zambia, 46 networks, 19, 28, 39 KMSS-Kengtung, 45 Populorum Progressio, 3, 9, 10 origins, 3, 6, 8, 9 Kolnary, Kasem, 46 Peru, schools, 13 at Oswald St (1988), 20 Philippines, 26 at Park Circus (1999), 26 Latin America, 4, 21 cyclone, 3 patron saint, 41 Lebanon war, 13, 16 in Rutherglen, 3, 6, 9, 10 Lima, Peru, 16 Quick, Diana, 21 Scottish Parliament Livingston conference (2005), 33–34 climate change, action on, 35 Raper, Revd Mark, 21 Climate Justice Fund, 38 McCoist, Ally, 28 Reid, George, 28 cross-party group on international McConnell, Jack, 34 Rocha, Revd Raimundo, 13, 36, 44 Sewing Hope (film), 34 McKee, John, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 16, 21–22, 31 Rodriguez, Cardinal, 33 Sierra Leone, Ebola, 39 MacLaren, Duncan, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 Romero, Oscar, Archbishop, 23 Slavin, James, 27 MacMillan, James, 21 Rooney, Mgr John, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10 Smith, David, 38 Make Poverty History campaign (2005), 4, 33 Russell, Robert, 30 Somalia, famine (1993), 22 Malawi, 45 Rwanda, 24, 45 South Africa, apartheid, 20 Margaret, St, 41 genocide, 25 South Sudan, 13, 23, 36, 39, 44 Maryknoll Seedling of Hope, Cambodia, 46 48 49 BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and Catholic Bishops’ This book would not have been possible without the great stories and hard work Conference of Scotland, Life, Debt and Jubilee, Catholic Media Office in Association of many people. We would like to thank the following people and organisations in with CAFOD and SCIAF, 1999 particular.

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and Catholic Bishops’ Archbishop Conti, Bishop Mone and Bishop Taylor for their helpful interviews and Conference of Scotland, Trade and Solidarity, Catholic Media Office in Association allowing us access to their writings. with CAFOD and SCIAF, 2003 The Scottish Catholic Observer for use of their archive and the huge effort of their Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, pastoral letter on development for SCIAF’s volunteers to note many thousands of SCIAF stories from editions of the paper over 30th anniversary, 1995. 50 years.

John J McKee, Founding a Fund – Twenty Years of Aid to the Poor, SCIAF, 1985 Our indefatigable volunteers, especially Peter McMillan and Claudia Melis and Oula Jones, for their research, writing, organising, archiving, indexing and proofreading. Rosaleen Murray, John McKee - His Story, 2003 All our partners for their lovely comments on our work. Gaudium et Spes Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, paragraph 63, 1965 All staff and volunteers, past and present, for sharing their own stories and being a part of our SCIAF story. Encyclicals Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio, 1967 Frank Burns of Burns Morrison Print Management for very generously printing this St John Paul II, Laborem Exercens, 1981 book free of charge. St John Paul II, Centesimus Annus 58, 1991 St John Paul II, Lenten message, 1998 St John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte, 2000 Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, 2005 Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI, Intima Ecclesiae Natura, 2012 Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, paragraph 53, 2013

50 51 With your support, over the last 50 years we’ve given millions of families a better chance in life and hope for the future. We won’t stop while they need our help.

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SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund) is the official overseas aid and development charity of the Catholic Church in Scotland and a proud member of the Caritas family. We help some of the world’s poorest people, regardless of religion and tackle the underlying causes of poverty.

Registered office: 19 PARK CIRCUS, GLASGOW, G3 6BE Tel: 0141 354 5555 Email: [email protected] Registered Charity No: SC012302 Company No: SC197327 ISBN: 978-0-9932562-0-2