Over the years, the Parish has supported carefully-selected long-term projects. The projects may require support for several years, and they are therefore chosen after careful research by the Outreach Group. Our current projects are in Zambia and Cambodia:

Zambia Project

Our Parish Project is to support an orphanage run by Sister Mary Vianney Moloney, a Presentation Nun in Kaoma Zambia. Kaoma is in the Western Province of Zambia which is its poorest Province. It has no industries or factories to supply employment. The soil is mostly sandy as Koama is on the border of the Kalahari Desert. The AIDS pandemic has also played a big part; some of the bread winners are either dead or too sick to work.

Vianney Mission

- There are three residential centres for 155 orphans and vulnerable children.
- Thirty-nine children are under two years of age.
- The Mission also supports extended families fostering orphans.
- Thirty-two boys aged 6 to 17 years old are in the Mission's Boys' Town.
- Seven hundred children are in the Mission Community School (60 to 80 children to a class)
- They hope to build a place for the older girls to live in; at present they live with the younger children.
- The Mission provides training to help young people to live independently.

- Mission Running Costs per month -£7000

A big thank you to our Parish Community from Sister Vianney and her Community for your generosity - the total raised so far is £13,000 ( July 2011).

Fundraising events have included two concerts by Gillian Von Fragstein, a 25th wedding party, a craft day, a stage production, a jumble sale, bacon butties, cakes, marmalade sales, auction, African evenings, donations and many more.

CONNECT2  Project (Cambodia)

Our latest CAFOD Project, CONNECT2 was launched on 1st April 2011. We have chosen to support a project in the small community (64 families) of Samrong Mean Chey, on the edge of Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. 

CAFOD works there through its partner, the Salvation Centre (SCC), to help people support themselves and to educate them about health, sanitation and HIV and AIDS. 

We have had input from Marie Molloy, our Diocesan CAFOD worker and Clodagh Byrne, recently returned from Samrong Mean Chey.

More information on the project, and personal news from members of the community can be accessed by clicking here. (Link opens in a new window)

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