Project Compassion appeal underway in Melbourne’s Catholic schools

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21 February 2023

Bishop Ashe joined students and teachers from around the Archdiocese today to officially launch this year’s Project Compassion appeal at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College.

Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne Martin Ashe joined students and teachers from around the Archdiocese today to officially launch this year’s Project Compassion appeal at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Braybrook.

Each year during the season of Lent, Project Compassion brings together thousands of Australian schools and parishes to stand in solidarity with the world’s most vulnerable communities to help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity.

The theme of Project Compassion 2023 is ‘For All Future Generations’, reminding us that what we do today can have an impact for all future generations. This message invites us to step up for those who do not have the essential resources they need for survival and those whose needs are far beyond our own.

In launching Project Compassion, Bishop Ashe said we are reminded that we are helping Caritas to respond in a deeper way to what’s happening in the world – especially to those who are most vulnerable and needy in communities both in Australia and overseas – and to respond to the challenges of poverty, injustice and climate change that are being experienced at this time.

‘This is what Project Compassion does over the next six weeks. We allow ourselves to be moved and to respond to the plight of the vulnerable in our midst’, he said.

More information is available via the Caritas Australia website www.caritas.org.au/project-compassion.