2. Caritas Secondary School
• All girls’ school
• Managed by Sisters of Charity
• 500 students
• Stella Maris’ students attended class for one
week
• 4th
years were in Grade 10 and 5th
years in
Grade 11
• Stella Maris’ teachers had a chance to use
their skills in the Caritas classrooms too!
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10. Statistics
• The six richest people in the world own more than
the six hundred million poorest
• If that doesn’t surprise you, how about the three
hundred richest people in the world owning more of
the worlds wealth than half of humanity
• There are over eight hundred million people in the
world who are hungry
11. Makalulu
• 2nd
biggest shanty town in Africa
• 50,000 people live there
• Only 6 water pumps available
for inhabitants
• Attended Mass on Sunday, 2nd
April
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16. Kara Counselling Hospice
• Founded by an Irish woman, Mary O’Brien
• Adult hospice offers:
Testing for Hiv/AIDS
Counselling
Medication
Place of dignity when near the end of the
disease
• Trains Zambian women to offer home-based
care
• Playschool
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18. H.I.V
H.I.V ~ Human Immunodeficiency virus.
Originally developed in monkeys, S.I.V , ~ Zoonosis
Scientists know more about H.I.V than any other virus in
history, yet theres still no cure.
It only takes 10 days for the virus to spread to the brain ,
heart and other major organs after infection.
19. The biggest problem with H.I.V is that it is
transmitted in our most intimate moments
The sex we have
The breast milk we provide
The drugs we inject
And these interactions are the least open to
disscussion and change
20. A . I . D . S
• AUTO
• IMMUNE
• DEFICIENCY
• SYNDROME
21. ONE OF THE KEY FACTORS TOTHE
SPREADOF A.I.D.S IS POVERTY
• Lack of education and knowledge to protect
themselves
• People forced to sell their bodies to feed their
families
• People forced to stay with cheating partners
in order to keep their children
22. Children’s Playschool & “Busy
Bees”
The Playschool offers:
•Testing and medication for children
with HIV/AIDS
•Nutrition for children
•Education, fun, toys and plenty of
attention
•“Busy Bees” meet to work on their
art
27. Sables Drop-in Centre
for Street Children
• Drop-in centre for street children
• Run by Kara Counselling
• Only boys can attend the centre
• Boys get two meals, an education and
a place to feel safe
• The centre hasn’t the funds to provide
overnight accommodation, so the boys
face many dangers on the street
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32. Ngungu
• Parish outside Kabwe
• Extremely poor area in Kabwe region
• Attended Mass on Palm Sunday, 9th
April
• Mass lasted 4 hours and included a
procession, a dramatic interpretation
of the gospel
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34. What’s happening right now!
• As we sit here, we are in the midst o a drought in Africa. Under trees
there are infants trying to feed from mothers whose frail bodies try to
protect there children from the seering sun, and young men to weak
to walk, waiting for death in the shade. Others in camps, in long
lines, are waiting for food that has been delayed until the TV
cameras arrive.
• I cannot tell you what its like to be a mother knowing that you cannot
feed your child, but many say that its hell without light, a horror
seeing the ones you would give your life for starve in front of you.
Some say the nights are the worst-cuddling up to children who
cannot sleep for the pain they are in. Others say the day watching
the slow disintegration of there infants.
44. Never forget…
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about
the things that matter. The world is tired of anger and
cynicism, the politics of personal destruction and a
media that sells itself through stories of scandals,
failures and tradgedies. Although it is undoubtedly part of
what is happening, we do not hear about the acts of
goodness and deeds of greatness.
• There are more people doing more good in more
voluntary organisations around the world than
there are soldiers.
45. We make our living by what
we get…..
We make our lives by
what we give!
Allquotes taken from: AllWillBe Well, MichaelMeegan
