DIARY ALERT
What:
Caritas Australia’s 2010
Project Compassion
Starts:
Wednesday February 17, 2010
Ends:
Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010
Where:
All over Australia
Who:
Caritas Australia
Background:
The largest aid and development fundraiser in Australia, Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion
gives Australians a chance to play an active role in helping the world’s poorest communities break
free from the cycle of poverty.
Caritas Australia is part of an international network that works in over 200 countries and territories,
empowering communities to help themselves out of poverty and control their own future.
This year’s Project Compassion theme ‘Blueprint for a better world’ focuses on the Millennium
Development Goals, an eight step global action plan for halving world poverty by 2015. These
goals provide a road map, or blueprint, to a better world.
Caritas Australia works to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by
partnering with
organisations that:
Build food security and livelihoods for rural families in Cambodia
Offer
culturally sensitive and community driven education programs
for Indigenous
Australians in the Kimberly region
Support victims of domestic violence in East Timor
Promote maternal health in PNG
Respond holistically to HIV/AIDS in El Salvador
Enable communities to respond to food shortages and environmental degradation in Malawi
Project Compassion 2010
aims to beat last year’s fundraising effort of over $8.7
million around
Australia.
Donations can be made to Project Compassion by phoning 1800 024 413, on-line at
For more information contact Tim O’Connor 0417 284 831
The Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development
19 MacKenzie Street North Sydney NSW 2060 Australia Toll Free 1800 024 413 Telephone +61 2 9956 5799 Facsimile +61 2 9956 5782
Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion is
building a better world for people like 14 year
old Samon, an AIDS orphan living in rural
Cambodia. His community now has access to
safe drinking water, his extended family has
been supported to start a business and he is
thriving at school and in a youth group for
vulnerable children,
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