Winter has come early this year – and poor people on the Missions are suffering

Last weekend, snow fell steadily over the mountains to the west of our Archdiocese – bringing icy winds and freezing conditions to the Zulu Missions.

Blankets are urgently needed for poverty stricken rural people, living in mud huts in the higher areas. Please donate one or more blankets today.

Your generosity will mean hope for a Gogo (granny) who is struggling to care for several grandchildren after the deaths of their parents. Without a blanket each, they’ll have to sleep on only a grass mat on the cold earthen floor of their hut.

Blankets are also badly needed for child headed households where orphaned siblings live without an adult to help them.

Then there are sad instances where frail elderly men and women have nobody in the world to care about them, other than their mission priest .... and you.

This winter, things are looking even more bleak because with the world economic downturn, husbands and fathers have lost their jobs, and their families become destitute.

Whatever you can spare to help us buy blankets for poor people on the missions will be so greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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