YOUTH NEWS
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Youth SVP Day Splashout! |
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The
Diocesan Justice and Peace Day took
place on Saturday February 17th at Bishop Challoner School in Basingstoke. The
theme was: One
of the workshops was about Young
People and Justice and Peace. To
download a presentation on involving young people in justice and
peace, click here.
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| Welcome to Mary Ellen Donnelly. She joins the Diocese as Youth Ministry Coordinator for the Pompey Pastoral Area. Mary Ellen comes with a huge amount of experience of working with young people both in a Youth Mission Team and as a School Chaplain. | |||||||||
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"Splashout"
on clean water |
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In the UK we take
clean, available water for granted! But for a big group of students from
Portsmouth, Hampshire and Southampton, an event called 'Splashout' has
changed all that!
Water was the theme of an interesting day for lots of students from St Edmund's Catholic School, Portsmouth, Oaklands Catholic School, Hampshire, and St George's Catholic School, Southampton, who met up on April 24 for a project called Splashout! The idea was to look at what water means to us here in the UK and how this can be so different in the developing world. There were talks by Portsmouth Water, followed by a talk on the need for more available water in many villages in Kenya. The group is planning to fundraise for a 'Bore Well project', which will help to provide safe, clean water for villagers. In the UK, we take water for granted, we turn on the tap and it is there. But of course - this often isn't the case in Kenya. Many villagers don't have access to clean water to cook with and drink. If villages have a well, it can make a huge difference to the health and lives of the people. The school groups also got creative on fundraising campaigns to achieve the £750 targets needed to provide the wells. Watch this space to see how many wells the group will 'Splashout' on soon! To view photos click
on http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/srmtinkler/Splashout |
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