OCSJM
  • Home
    • Blog
    • OCSJM Newsletter
    • Annual Dinner/Gathering
    • Bishop Donnelly Awards
  • About
    • OCSJM Brochure
    • Ministry Teams
    • Annual Report
    • Board of Directors
    • History
    • Staff
    • Strategic Plan
  • Programs
    • Burial Assistance Fund
    • Catholic Campaign for Human Development
    • Catholic Relief Services
    • Human Trafficking >
      • Human Trafficking Prayers
      • Awareness Resources & Videos
    • Mental Health & Disability Ministry
    • Parish Social Ministry >
      • Parishes in Action
      • JustFaith
    • Open Wide Our Hearts
    • Social Justice Conference
  • Grants
  • Get Involved
    • Advocate
    • Donate
    • Ministry Teams
    • Register
  • Resources
    • Catholic Social Teaching
    • Church Documents
    • Environment >
      • Laudato Si' Resources >
        • Lifestyle Change
        • Events/Webinars
        • Recycling >
          • Textile Recycling
        • Suggested Reading
        • Suggested Videos
    • Global Solidarity
    • Immigration
    • Poverty
    • Prayer Resources
    • Racial Justice
    • Tools for Leaders
    • Youth and Young Adults
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Human Trafficking Prayers

Northwest Catholic HS Lends a "Helping Hand"

5/20/2014

1 Comment

 
Picture
Congratulations to Northwest Catholic High School for completing the Catholic Relief Service Helping Hands Project! After participating in the Helping Hands event at the Catholic Youth Spectacular in September, 2013, the students from Northwest decided to bring the project to their school. More than 50 students and faculty volunteers turned out for the school's project on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Helping Hands is a hands-on volunteer meal-packaging event developed by Catholic Relief Services and Raleigh, NC-based Stop Hunger Now.

During the event, Northwest Catholic students, parents, and faculty worked in teams to assemble meal packages of rice, soy flour, vitamins and dehydrated vegetables, weigh them, seal them, pack them in boxes, and load them onto a truck for transport. The group packaged 10,000 meals during the two-hour event. The packages are destined for a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso.

"There was so much energy on the part of the kids and there were so many ready to help," said Director of Campus Ministry Kristina Gillespie. "We have a lot of students who really have a heart for service and this was a unique and fun way to serve and strengthen our school community."

Throughout the Lenten season, members of the Northwest Catholic community were asked to give up something each week, such as a cup of coffee, and donate the money they saved to the project. The total raised for Helping Hands, over $5,000, paid for the food and will help fund programs and initiatives to enable the people of Burkina Faso learn to grow their own food and better their lives and their community.

If you would like to know more about Helping Hands, or are interested in planning an event for your own youth group or parish, come to the "Youth in Action" workshop at the Bishop Peter Rosazza Social Justice Conference or contact Sarah Hillier at (203) 777-7279 or sarah.hillier@aohct.org.

1 Comment
adamغير معرف
12/23/2014 10:28:46 am


Helping Hands International Offers life changing empowerment services that empowers your life. We touch lives...and empowers people around us and the world over. It's not enough to have lived. We are determined to live for something, it could be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of mankind, bringing hope to the hopeless and love to the orphans and that is what gives us more joy and hapiness , for we believe that "life is a gift,and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more".
14 Omotayo Ojo Street
Ikeja
Nigeria Tel: 08148345303
Email: adamsj255@gmail.com
http://helpinghandsinternational.biz/mdsho

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    Advocacy
    Catholic Relief Services
    CCHD
    Cooperative Parish Sharing
    Environmental Justice
    Immigration Reform
    Laudato Si
    OCSJM Events
    Organizing
    Parish Social Ministry
    Prison Reform
    Resources
    USCCB
    Young Adults
    Youth

    RSS Feed

    Blog Archives

    June 2022
    May 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    August 2019
    May 2019
    September 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    March 2017
    October 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013

Our Mission
To advance Catholic Social Teaching by educating and preparing parishes to work for social justice. 
​The Office for Catholic Social Justice Ministry
of the Archdiocese of Hartford

467 Bloomfield Ave. Bloomfield, CT 06002
Phone: 860-242-5573 

  info.ocsjm@aohct.org
© 2015 The Office for Catholic Social Justice Ministry
Subscribe to our Newsletter