Third Week of Lent
(School Week beginning 8th March)
We are now in the third week of Lent with the Project Compassion story of Oliva, a 22-year-old woman from Tanzania. She did not have the opportunity to go to school and was embarrassed that she was unable to read, write or count. As an adult, her business was losing money because she couldn’t add up her money and give the right change to customers.
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 are growing, her kiosk is thriving and she is helping her children with their homework. She aims to become a pastor and run for leadership in the next local election – to help her community to ‘Be More.’
- Approximately 260 million children don’t have the chance to go to school (un.org)
Watch a short film about Oliva’s story here.
“Aspire not to have more, but to be more.”
Please support Project Compassion: lent.caritas.org.au
Alex Paljetak
Assistant Principal