Year 8 Walk Against Hunger
In this last week of term, all Year 8 students took part in CAFOD’s Walk Against Hunger, by walking laps of our upper playground in solidarity with our poorest sisters and brothers around the world. Solidarity is a key element of Catholic Social Teaching, with students aware that their actions and prayers for those less fortunate are of great importance in fighting our world’s inequalities.
In RE lessons, students learnt about CAFOD’s work fighting poverty and hunger, especially in some of the poorest regions in our world. In particular, they found out how children’s lives have been saved in Sierra Leone through the work of the Handmaid Sisters, supported by CAFOD, who are working in their local communities as they tackle the things that keep them in poverty.
Together, our Year 8 students walked 757 kilometres around the upper playground during one RE lesson (5 laps = 1 kilometre). Their efforts were added to CAFOD’s total kilometres walked by Catholic schools and parishes during Lent, with the aim of a collective 44,000km, representing the circumference of planet earth.
Update:
This Lent, as a school community, we donated £1035 to CAFOD, which represented our joint efforts for the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal as well as the Walk Against Hunger.
Did you know?
- £12 can buy ingredients to make, lifesaving food paste.
- £70 could give rice to a whole community for a whole planting season.
- £125 can support travelling health clinics to visit remote communities.
- £350 can pay for radio jingles to remote communities about hygiene and nutrition.
- £1,000 can build a greenhouse to help teach local school children how to grow healthy vegetables all year round!
