Parish Charity

OVERSEAS CHARITY 2009-2010 MOST HOLY TRINITY PARISH NEWQUAY

SVP is one of the major charitable organisations operating in the Sudan

SVP is implementing projects which provide:

*Accommodation * Training *Water *Feeding for Children

in their sites around Khartoum, El Obeid and Juba

Sudan has been in a state of Civil War for all but 11 years since 1955 which has resulted in:

2 million deaths
The displacement of 4.5 million people from the southern war zone mostly to the north around the capital, Khartoum {Statistics: Amnesty International}

The Society of St Vincent de Paul has been active in addressing the needs arising from the internal conflicts for a number of years. This has resulted in the establishment of a number of facilities and programmes including:

Homes - take in orphans who are placed in the care of Sudanese couples, who act as foster parents and try to establish new family ties with them. Children receive food, medical attention, schooling and the affection so necessary to a child’s survival. Seven homes (four for girls and three for boys) are hosting about 200 children. All of them are orphans who survived the war raging in the South.

Farms - set up to cater for the older children, the adolescents who are becoming more numerous. In addition to primary and secondary education, they are given the means to learn a trade, e.g. to cultivate the soil and rear cattle they produce enough food not only to nourish themselves but also contribute food supplies for the homes.

Vocational training - to help young people adults to become self-sufficient. All trainees leaves, once they have completed a course and gained a certificate proving their competence, succeed in finding jobs and this gives confidence to all the others.
Older street children as well as displaced adults living in the vicinity benefit from our training centres.

On farms and training centres, workshops provide training in carpentry, bricklaying, electrical work, welding, agricultural techniques and tailoring for both men and women. Training centres provide refrigeration and air-conditioning workshops and leatherwork is taught. Centres provide health awareness, first aid, adult education and methods of fighting HIV/AIDS.

Medical programme - Six doctors, four medical assistants, and four nurses are responsible for medical care in four permanent clinics (25,000 treated), together with two mobile ones (1,000 treated) which visit all the schools or rakubas on a regular basis, as well as three out-patients’ or “Friday clinics” (10,000 treated). 45,000 patients were treated and give their necessary medicines in 2006.

Water Programme - Camps in the desert where the people have been displaced desperately need drinking water. Three tankers are supplying everyday about 120,000 litres of drinking water to these camps and to the 60 schools of the Archdiocese of Khartoum. A well has been bored which allows the population living nearby to obtain this precious water more easily. Each farm also has its own well.

Baby feeding Centres - In the poorest areas of the suburban shanty towns, several thousand children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition so serious as to cause irreversible brain damage. Over recent years around 10,000 small children have received five meals per week in 17 centres on the outskirts of the capital, including about 370 babies living in jail with their mothers.

CONTACT: FR. MARK O’KEEFFE, P.P. MOST HOLY TRINITY PARISH NEWQUAY Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Helen Connolly, President St. Vincent de Paul Society, MHT NQ Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Information on the St. Vincent de Paul Society: visit the SVP website: www.svp.org.uk

The St. Vincent DePaul Society in Newquay

A Lay Organisation of Christian Men and Women, Young and Old of every race and colour numbering over 1 million in 132 countries of whom 17,000 are in England and Wales and a small group work in Newquay

The St. Vincent de Paul Society in Newquay is part of the worldwide Society founded in 1833 by Frederick Ozanam, a 20 year old student of the Sorbonne University in Paris. In answer to the taunt for Christians to “practise what they preach” with a group of fellow students, Frederick started to seek out and visit the poor of the city in their homes, taking them bread and clothes, their friendship and their caring love. This small group took as their patron St. Vincent de Paul, the great French priest who alerted the world to social problems concern.

In Newquay, the St. Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) aims to carry out this same task. The Gospels tells us again and again that true peace is possible only if we live as Christ showed us by his own life. The work of the S.V.P. is the Gospel message in action I was hungry, I was thirsty,

I was a stranger, I was naked,

I was sick, I was in prison.

There is no need which is outside the concern of our Society be it sickness or disability, mental or physical;

family problems, social or economic, the loneliness of old age, the social misfit

The aim of SVP is to bring social justice and the friendship of true charity to all those in need. Members visit people in their own homes, in hospitals and institutions. The Newquay SVP members are widely involved in the needs of people in and around the town.

The SVP is easy to join. Whatever your age, whatever your skill, all that is asked is a little of your time. There is no initiation procedure, no training, no special qualification required except the desire to join with others to help those in need. All you have to bring is a little patience and good will.

A fortnightly meeting is held of about one hour’s duration. You are very welcome to come along and meet our members with a view to joining us

Day: Thursday Time: 7 p.m.

Place: Church Hall of Most Holy Trinity Church, Tower Road, Newquay Contact: Helen Connolly Tel: 01637 871930.