Caritas Challenge – NZ Catholic Newspaper

Dunedin students rough it overnight for challenge

NZ Catholic Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 04:30:58 +0000

by JEFF DILLON
A forecast cool Friday evening ahead of them could not dampen the enthusiasm of 23 year-4-to-6 pupils as they prepared for their Caritas Challenge of sleeping in makeshift cardboard shelters at St Peter Chanel primary school, Green Island, Dunedin.echo $variable;

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‘Move it’ for a good cause

NZ Catholic Staff — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:56:25 +0000

Senior primary school pupils at St Patrick’s Napier got behind the Caritas “Move It” challenge at the end of term 1.According to Caritas, the Move It challenge focuses on understanding how lack of access contributes to poverty. It highlights the plight of people who have to travel long distances to meet basic needs like water, food, safety, health and education. Staff and years seven and eight St Patrick’s pupils decided

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Caritas Challenge: Cardboard comfort raises thousands

Kathleen Casey — Tue, 12 May 2015 22:44:02 +0000

Christchurch
by KATHLEEN CASEY
In a blustering, cold easterly before Easter, 100 students from Marian College and Cathedral College built a cardboard village to live in for a night as part of the Caritas Challenge.echo $variable;

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Caritas Challenge: Long walk into city proves an eye opener

Rowena Orejana — Mon, 11 May 2015 21:15:51 +0000

Auckland
by ROWENA OREJANA
About 100 west Auckland Catholic young people took up the Caritas Challenge and walked 62.7 kilometres from St Patrick’s Church in Huapai to St Patrick’s Cathedral in the city.echo $variable;

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Caritas Challenge: Learning curve for youngsters

Michael Otto — Mon, 11 May 2015 20:59:55 +0000

Invercargill
by JEFF DILLON
Cardboard, scissors, tape. No it is not a new game, but it was quite a learning curve for four girls and nine boys from years 5 and 6 at Sacred Heart Primary School in North-East Valley, Dunedin.echo $variable;

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Caritas Challenge round up

NZ Catholic Staff — Thu, 07 May 2015 21:39:51 +0000

Youth across the dioceses take up the Caritas Challenge to show solidarity with poor. Cardinal supports youth living rough Wellington by NZ CATHOLIC staff The Johnsonville youth group Challenge 2000 endured the hardships of sleeping outside in cardboard shelters overnight for the second year in a row as part of the Caritas Challenge. More than

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Chch girls join in Caritas challenge

NZ Catholic Staff — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 03:41:18 +0000

by NZ CATHOLIC staff
CHRISTCHURCH — The chance to show solidarity with those living in
poverty saw 46 students from Marian and Catholic Cathedral Colleges sleep rough on the weekend of April 5 and 6.echo $variable;

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Hardship tried across nation over weekend

Rowena Orejana — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:02:21 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA WELLINGTON — More than 6000 young people slept in cardboard boxes, worked in sweatshop-like conditions or went without food in the first weekend of April as part of the first nationwide Caritas Challenge. Caritas Social Justice education adviser Gemma Sinnot, coordinator for the challenge in Auckland, said this was the first time

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