Cathy from Caritas

Today Cathy came to visit us to help us learn more about Caritas. Caritas helps people who are poor and need help with things like getting food, water a roof over their head. During Lent the children at our school give money to help other people. Caritas takes our money and use it to help people in places like Samoa (tsunami), Christchurch (earthquake), Tanzanir (learning to read and write), Nepal (growing food) and South America (clean water).

Earth, water, fire and air are important for us to survive.
Our food comes from the earth: The bread comes from the wheat that grows from the ground. The meat and cheese come from animals which eat food from the ground- and the vegetables in the hamburger grow from seeds- in the ground too!
Did you know that humans are 70% water! So it's really important that we have clean water to eat!
Fire keeps up warn and gives us light. Lighting fires can pollute the air though- and people can get sick.

We prayed a prayer from St Francis. It was about looking after our world for the future- if we don't look after our world, there won't be enough clean water, air, food and heat for us to survive.