Holy Eucharist Food Bank Drive

The Holy Eucharist Food Bank commenced in February 1996. The Foodbank has over 700 people registered for food assistance and provide assistance for between 240 to 300 people every Friday. As well as this, we deliver to people who are home-bound and are unable to collect from the Food Bank itself. Food Bank is open every Friday from 10:30 am until 2pm.

This term the Social Justice Team aims to raise 1000 cans of either beans or tuna. Currently we have 250 cans. Each Friday a member of the Social Justice Team will be visiting homerooms to collect cans. Please remember to add a can for the Food Bank when you next complete your shopping list.

Reconciliation Week Professional Development

In the 2023 – 2024 Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Social Justice Statement, Listen, Learn, Love: A New Engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Australia’s Bishops spoke of the Church’s involvement in the injustices experienced by the First Peoples. In this statement they urged Catholics in Australia to keep learning about the history of the Stolen Generations, but also to learn how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are still being removed from their families at high rates. `To make amends for the wrongs in which we have played a part, we need to be active in accompanying First Nations Peoples in their struggle for justice’.

A Professional Development session was held in Reconciliation Week as an opportunity for staff to learn more about the origins of Reconciliation Week and the purpose it serves in the national identity. Staff had an opportunity to ask questions to the speaker Leila Gurrawiwi. The session was also an opportunity for staff to learn how they can further develop first nations perspectives in curriculum.