Project Compassion Stalls

Last week saw an opportunity for Salvado House to organise, set up and run a range of stalls to help raise funds for Project Compassion. The week's focus was on the story of Dhaniram who lives with his family in regional India. People in Dhaniram's village were not aware of the social security that is available by the Indian Government which is available to help support villages like his. So through the help of project compassion Dhaniram was able to become part of the Hamara Haq (Our Rights) project and start influencing change in his local area.

Salvado House chose to run three treat stalls which included lolly bags, fairy floss and ice-cream spiders, along side students trying their luck with a coin toss game and basketball shoot out across the week. It was a great success with all Holy Cross Students from Pre-Primary to Year Twelve emptying their pockets to get involved. So far including the stalls run by Frayne and the Junior school we have raised nearly $3000. This week there will be a further increase in this amount with McCormack working hard with their stalls and Junior school as well as Ozanam House finishing off the term after the Easter break.

We would like to also thank parents for their assistance with providing goods and also donations so their children can see the importance of almsgiving, in a fun way, during this time of lent.