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FUNDRAISING BOOKLET 2021
THIS BOOKLET PROVIDES YOU WITH INSPIRATION
TO ASSIST YOU IN SUPPORTING VULNERABLE
COMMUNITIES DURING THIS LENTEN SEASON.
Printed on a sustainable, purpose-grown fibre and fully recyclable. FPCP20
WELCOME TO
20 21
This year, Caritas Australia takes the theme
of ‘Be More’ for Project Compassion 2021. It
challenges us to venture into a new experience
of compassion, and is taken from the invitation
of St. Oscar Romero, to “Aspire not to have
more, but to be more.”
This message invites us to step up and step
out for those who do not have the essential
resources they need for their survival, those
whose needs at this time are far beyond ours.
During COVID-19, it is through these
partnerships with local communities and
extensive church networks on the ground
that we have been able to respond swiftly to Your commitment to marginalised people has
minimise the spread of the pandemic. We been a direct response to the Christian call to
were able to adapt our existing programs with ‘act justly, love mercifully, and walk humbly
new emergency training, and medical and with our God.’
hygiene kits.
Thank you for ‘Being More’ with Caritas
Project Compassion 2021 showcases five Australia and Project Compassion.
heroic individuals for whom your support is
making a real difference. The women and men With gratitude,
in these stories show incredible resilience and Kirsty Robertson
determination in spite of every challenge. CEO
Caritas Australia
1
Jamila’s Story participated in a parenting program, and
learned sewing skills to help her to earn an
Twenty-two-year-old Jamila is a single income.
mother living in the world’s largest refugee
camp in Bangladesh. A Rohingya woman, Jamila now has a sense of community
she’d fled the armed conflict in Myanmar’s around her, and feels less alone and more
Rakhine State to save herself, her elderly supported. As a result, she’s able to ‘Be
mother, and her eight-month-old baby. More’ to her family.
Having been abandoned by her husband, she
faced life in the camp on her own. “I want to offer my thankful greetings to
those who are kindly thinking of us from
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people overseas,” Jamila says. “Thank you, and
have crossed the border into Bangladesh thanks Caritas Australia.”
since August 2017. Over 1.3 million people
remain in the densely populated camps in
desperate need of humanitarian assistance.
Thanks to the generosity of Caritas “Aspire not to
Australia’s supporters and through our
partnership with Caritas Bangladesh, have more, but
Jamila has been able to access emergency
food and shelter. As her stay in the camp
to be more.”
stretched on, Jamila joined the Women
Friendly Spaces project, where she received
- Saint Oscar Romero
counselling and emotional support.
She learned about health and hygiene,
2
FOR
BE MORE
ASPIRING NOT TO HAVE MORE, BUT TO
Together we have the power to build a
2021
movement and create lasting change for our
global community. We can help break the cycle
of poverty and injustice by taking the next
steps from charity to justice – to Be More.
Follow these
four steps
from charity
to justice:
STEP 1 STEP 2
ACT CHARITABLY Raise awareness
Give money: this helps with immediate This is one of the best ways to help others
needs and is vital to everyday survival. understand what the world’s most vulnerable
But charity alone cannot end the people are faced with. Use your voice on
cycle of poverty. Taking the next steps social media to inform your community
can do so much more to help leave a about how donations can help communities
positive impact in the most vulnerable gain access to clean water, food security,
communities. basic healthcare and help them get further
towards a better future.
STEP 3 STEP 4
Act in solidarity Act for
Actions like giving up a luxury in solidarity social justice
with those who have very little, or walking Take social justice actions to help build a
long distances for those who must travel movement that creates lasting change, and
far away from family to find work, promote addresses underlying issues. These actions
empathy and understanding. You could could focus on participation, stewardship,
even challenge others to join you in giving peace, sustainability, inclusion and justice.
something up, this can help them relate to As well as taking action, take some time to
the world’s poorest and motivate them to get reflect on what you’re doing.
involved.
3
COMMUNITY
THERE IS NO GREATER POWER THAN
Get your friends, family, school community
or workplace together to get involved in
a fundraising event! Together you will be
raising awareness and funds for our global
community – the thousands of children,
women and men around the world who have
to go through extraordinary lengths each day
to access basic necessities like food, water,
education or healthcare.
PANCAKE PANCAKE
TUESDAY BREAKFAST
Pancakes are an integral This is a simple way to get
part of Shrove Tuesday everyone involved because
GET
and all around the world who doesn’t like pancakes for
the tradition of pancake breakfast? Charge per pancake
flips and races are bringing DECORATING or all-you-can-eat for a fixed
communities together for amount! Promote the day well
the Lenten season. Hold a decorating competition in advance and consider selling
and ask for donations to pancake vouchers ahead of
Project Compassion is never decorate the pancakes with time – that way you know how
complete without pancakes cut up fruit, chocolate chips, many you are going to need.
and it’s one of the most whipped cream or maple syrup
fun way to kick off your – the possibilities are endless!
fundraising!
SPONSORED
PANCAKE
PANCAKE FLIP
RACE Transform your traditional
pancake day with a
Contestants are to run a length
sponsored pancake flip.
of a race with markers to show
Challenge contestants to
racers when they must toss
flip one pancake as many
their pancakes. Flags or traffic
times as they can in one
cones are good for this
minute, or time how long
(try 3 tosses in 100 metres).
it takes them to complete
100 flips.
4
FISH FRIDAYS
COOKING FOR YOUR COMMUNITY ON
The Catholic tradition is to forgo meat on
Fridays during Lent. Fish Friday is a perfect
opportunity to bring people together to
celebrate food at your school or parish.
Having a meal together unites us all in the act
of sharing, and provides a time to reflect and
be grateful for our common home.
BE MORE by raising money and awareness for
Project Compassion – hold a fish & chip stall,
where you could also sell hearty fish burgers,
fish cakes or fish fingers!
WORKING TOGETHER FOR
THE COMMUNITY
Margret’s Story
Margret, 39, is a teacher at a vocational school
for deaf students in the Solomon Islands. She
was born deaf, so she knows the challenges it
poses to education and employment.
The school faced water shortages that often
left staff and students without safe water
for drinking, cooking, washing and growing
vegetables. Then Tropical Cyclone Harold
damaged the school and its vegetable garden
as the threat of COVID-19 loomed.
With Caritas Australia’s support, the school
installed water tanks, provided cyclone-proof
building materials, and helped to implement
$70
COVID-19 prevention measures.
Margret’s school now has enough water for its
can buy fabric to make students and the capacity to cater for more,
up to 1000 face masks to and is planning to boost food security through
protect a community during increased agricultural production.
a COVID-19 outbreak in the
Solomon Islands.
5
FISH FRIDAY
BANGLADESHI FISH CURRY SERVES 4
INGREDIENTS OPTIONAL
4 firm fish fillets of your choice Chopped chilli
(Salmon or Barramundi are great) Bunch of chopped Thai basil leaves
1 brown onion, finely chopped Bunch of chopped coriander
2 cloves garlic, sliced thinly Lime wedges
1 tablespoon of ginger, grated Bean sprouts
1 tomato, diced
1/2 cup of coriander METHOD
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 large chopped chilli, split and deseeded if 1. Combine all spicy mix ingredients in a bowl.
you don’t like heat 2. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium
1 270 can of coconut milk (reserve ¼ cup high heat. Sauté the onion, stir for 5
for spicy mix) minutes or until softened. Add garlic,
1 1/2 cups cold water ginger, chilli and spicy mix. Cook, stirring,
Spicy mix for 2 minutes or until mustard seeds start
2 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds to pop. Add tomato and 1 1/2 cups cold
1 teaspoon cumin seeds water. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low
1/2 teaspoon ground fennel seeds and simmer for 5 minutes.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 3. Add coconut milk and bring to a simmer
1 teaspoon ground turmeric before adding your fish. Cook for 5 minutes
1 teaspoon ground coriander or until fish is just cooked through.
1/4 cup of coconut milk 4. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with
pepper and salt to taste rice and topped with coriander leaves.
6
CARITAS KS
KILOMETRES FOR COMPASSION
Support Project Compassion and Be More by
holding a Caritas K’s challenge. Get sponsored
to walk, cycle or run in solidarity with our most
vulnerable communities.
Create your own fundraising page where
you can feature your event, personalise aise money in solidarity by holding a
R
your photo, give your family and walkathon around a local park or at your
friends updates on your achievements, school.
communicate with supporters, and track
orgo the bus or car for a week during
F
your donations!
Lent and get sponsored to cycle or walk to
school or work.
Create your
fundraising page at Hold a marathon, or get sponsored to
enter an existing marathon and support
lent.caritas.org.au our most vulnerable communities.
Order your Caritas Ks toolkit with sponsor
Count your steps during Lent with a
books, or register to fundraise online by
pedometer or walking app. Aim for 10,000
visiting caritas.org.au/caritas-ks or calling
steps each day, and ask your friends and
1800 024 413.
family to sponsor your steps.
WALK, RUN OR CYCLE TO BE MORE
Oliva’s Story
Oliva, 22, didn’t have the opportunity to go to
school, and was embarrassed that she was
unable to read, write or count. Her business
was losing money because she couldn’t add up.
Then Oliva enrolled in Caritas Australia’s
literacy and numeracy classes. She also set
up a home classroom to teach her neighbours
for free, because they were too shy to attend
larger classes.
Oliva has now graduated, attendance at
her classes is growing, her kiosk is thriving
and she is helping her children with their $600
homework. She aims to become a pastor and can construct a water point
run for leadership in the next local election –
to help her community to ‘Be More.’
to provide clean, reliable
water for a community in
Tanzania.
7
THE WATER CHALLENGE
Today 1 in 3 people around the world lack
access to safe drinking water - thats 2.2
billion people according to the World Health HOW IT WORKS
Organisation. Firstly, save water!
Most of the world’s population spends up to You can save up to 5 litres of water every
3 hours a day to get the water they need to day by making some simple changes to
survive. They don’t have taps in their houses, or their routine:
even in their villages – some have to walk up to • Take shorter showers
10km each day just to find clean water.
• Put a bucket in your shower to catch
Every day they are challenged to find clean water. water for the garden
Today, we’re challenging you to help. We’re • Don’t leave the tap running when you
challenging you to save 5 litres of water every clean your teeth
day for 7 days in the lead up to World Water • Use the half-flush on your toilet
Day on 22 March. Create a fundraising page
for your Water Challenge to raise awareness Keep this up for the 7 days before
and gain support from your friends and family. 22 March and you’ll see how simple it is
Take your bucket of water on a 3 kilometre walk to make a difference to your water usage.
of solidarity with so many other communities
around the world.
By showing solidarity with communities in the
developing world, you’ll learn an important $1,300
lesson about how precious water is. can buy a 5,000L water
But even more importantly, you’ll raise money to tank for a school in the
help improve access to clean water for children Solomon Islands.
around the world.
8
GIVE IT UP FOR LENT
PRAYER, FASTING
AND ALMSGIVING
The primary pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting and
almsgiving. Giving something up is a simple way
to combine these three pillars into one charitable
activity. Giving up junk food, chocolate, social media
or watching TV is really a type of fasting.
Take on the challenge to create lasting change. Give
something up for 40 days. Get your friends and
family to donate.
Whatever it is you’d like to give up – coffee,
chocolate, hot chips, your credit card, driving your
car daily, text messaging, eating meat, or your
favourite TV program – do it during Lent and
feel great. Go to caritas.org.au/giveitup
and Give it up for Lent today!
ARSAD’s Story
Arsad, an Indonesian farmer, had no toilet,
so he and his family always had to walk
into the forest to an open defecation area.
His family was often sick and open
defecation caused many neighbourhood
disputes. With the support of Caritas
Australia and its partner, Laz Harfa,
Arsad took part in hygiene, sanitation and
financial management training. He then
funded the building of a toilet in his house
and helped other community members to
save for toilets.
$160
Now Arsad’s family is healthier. Their
community no longer practices open
defecation and is more harmonious. Arsad
inspired his community to ‘Be More.’ provides one family with
materials to build their own
toilet in Indonesia.
9GIVE UP
WHAT WILL YOU
THIS LENT?
TO SET UP YOUR
PAGE, VISIT:
lent.caritas.org.au
Go online and register what you are
giving up for Lent! Ask your friends
and family to sponsor you and tell
them why you’re giving something
up this Lent.
10CARITAS KITCHEN
“What better way to get your community
together, than in the kitchen?” It is the
heart of every home and a great way
to bring people together for a common
cause. You can make a difference in the
world just by having your neighbours,
family or friends over for lunch or
dinner! Or have a morning tea or lunch
at work.
FOOD TASTES
BETTER WITH HOW TO CREATE YOUR
COMMUNITY
FUNDRAISING PAGE
1. GO TO lent.caritas.org.au.
Choose a date and location and register your
event through the Caritas website 2. SELECT your event under “Fundraise”.
EAD and then CLICK “Register a
3. R
caritas.org.au/caritaskitchen team” if you’re a class, school or team
or “Register as an individual” if you’re
Your guests can RSVP, donate and discuss the holding the event yourself.
event on your personal fundraising page.
4. ENTER details for yourself or your team.
You will receive a host’s pack in the post
shortly after registering – it’s filled with 5. C
HOOSE your message or personalise it.
everything you’ll need to make your event a Set your event date and your target, then
fun and successful one. As well as providing hit “Create Profile”.
a great almsgiving opportunity this Lent and
raising awareness about poverty, you can
experience global flavours through sharing
real food, made with love.
Don’t forget to share your event on
social media by clicking the “share”
button on your chosen platform.
11HOST A CARITAS KITCHEN HOST A CARITAS KITCHEN
AND SUPPORT PEOPLE LIKE
HALIMA TO BE MORE FOR HER
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY.
Halima’s Story
$500
Halima is raising her two children in a refugee
camp in Bangladesh while caring for her
mother, who has a disability. Widowed at 21,
Halima fled violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine can provide beds in
State and arrived at the camp with nothing. a refugee camp in
Caritas Australia, through Caritas Bangladesh, Bangladesh to an entire
helped Halima out with a shelter, cooking family, including their
equipment, and hygiene and sanitation elderly grandparents so
training. She then took a job as a community
trainer, organising the cleaning of washrooms,
they don’t have to sleep
wells and toilets. on the ground.
Halima aspired to ‘Be More’. She is proud that
she is now able to earn a small income while
maintaining the health of her family and the
cleanliness of the camp community.
12POWER
OF COMMUNITY
Project Compassion has inspired so many communities to come together to raise
much needed funds for the most vulnerable men, women and children around the
world. Check out these previous fundraisers and get inspired!
ST PATRICK’S
NOTRE DAME’S PUSH UP
DAY FUN
FOR A HAND UP
Instead of doing their usual 8km Caritas Ks On St Patrick’s Day, Columba Catholic College in
fundraiser, the students at Notre Dame College in Townsville came dressed in its best green clothes
Shepparton held a virtual all school event called for a gold coin donation. The accompanying
‘Push Up for a Hand Up’. bake sale was a success with many green treats
All students were asked to film themselves devoured throughout the day.
completing as many push ups as they could and
forward to their teachers to be tallied.
The exciting day was live streamed and totals
were added throughout the event with a constant
update from the house captains. The event was a GLOBAL REALITY
success with the students raising $4000, but even LUNCH
more importantly every student and staff member
Students were provided lunch – a Global Reality
had a part to play in the virtual event.
Meal. As they arrived, each student was given a
lanyard stating ‘Rich’ or ‘Poor’. 80% of the students
received plain rice and a piece of fruit. The other 20%
CATHOLIC COLLEGE all received hot chips, white bread, sauce and coke.
WODONGA’S CARITAS KS The response from the students was amazing, some
students even asking to swap their ‘Rich’ lanyard to
“Without knowledge of why, there is no change.” eat rice like their friends.
– Jason Bartel REC
The Walk
Year 7 students at Catholic College Wodonga got a
unique insight into the challenge that marginalised
people across the world, including children, face to
access clean water. Setting off on a 5km round trip
journey to a lake where they lined up with buckets
and collected water from the lake. Students then
carried their full buckets to another park where they
watered newly planted trees.
13HOW YOU CAN BE MORE
There are so many ways you and your community can get involved and inspire others.
Just be as creative as you can – take a look at these fun ideas!
CAR WASH VIRTUAL BAKE SALE
MOVIE NIGHT
ON ZOOM
A car wash is a sure way to get This is an oldie but definitely
your community together. All This fundraiser is very easy
still a goodie. Stand out with
you need are willing volunteers, to organise and is a lot of fun!
a theme that’s on point with
a high-traffic location like your Choose a time and promote the
your fundraising focus, like
parish or school with good event through your school or
researching and then baking
visibility, and some attention- parish newsletter and on social
popular baked goods in the
getting signs. media. Set up your fundraising
countries featured in Project
page at lent.caritas.org.au and
• Make a list of what you need Compassion this year.
ask guests to donate before the
• Sell tickets in advance
film starts.signing up for the
• Create a poster clearly
movie night.
explaining why you’re raising
funds and share it on social
media
• Have fun!
An Australian Icon
For over half a century, generations of Australians
have participated in Project Compassion, making
it one of the nation’s longest running charity
campaigns.
Throughout five decades of natural disasters,
conflicts and crises, Caritas Australia has worked
alongside vulnerable communities with the generous
support of Australians. Project Compassion has also
helped with access to education, health services,
$2,500
agricultural training and programs that reduce
maternal and infant mortality.
This year, we have presented five stories from people can give a Rohingya family
striving to ‘Be More’ – just a few amongst the millions
who have been helped through Project Compassion.
of seven safe, temporary
housing in a Bangladesh
As we celebrate this Australian icon, we would like to
thank generations of supporters nationwide for their
refugee camp.
generosity, which allows us to move forward with
lifesaving strategies to tackle new challenges.
14THANK YOU
FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND GOOD LUCK WITH
20 21
We’d love to hear about FOLLOW US!
your great fundraising
events and ideas! We’ll be posting inspiring Project
Compassion videos, stories, updates
By sharing your photos and stories about and fundraising ideas throughout Lent
your events, we can learn from each other, on our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and
inspire each other and make the most of Instagram pages.
our fundraising events.
Follow us to keep up to date, and share
Get in touch at the posts with your family, friends,
projectcompassion@caritas.org.au school or parish to spread the word
about Project Compassion!
lent.caritas.org.au
CaritasAU CaritasAust
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SHARE YOUR SUPPORT
Get on social media and share your Project
Compassion activities, updates, stories
and photos.
Post on your school, Don’t forget to use the hashtag
parish or community’s #ProjectCompassion. You can also tag
social media page your family and friends, including us!
Share your Project Compassion activities
with your networks, and ask them to support
your events. This is just like putting a notice
#projectcompassion
in a bulletin/ newsletter, only easier!
You can use the images provided, or you
can also post links to any of the great
resources you find on our website.
Don’t forget to use the #ProjectCompassion
hashtag, and tag us as well!
lent.caritas.org.au
1800 024 413
Caritas Australia Head Office
24-32 O’Riordan St, Alexandria NSW 2015 #projectcompassion
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