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Caritas Australia's free e-magazine, OzSpirit, this month focuses on Food Security. To learn more about this and other social justice issues in Australia and around the world, take a look at OzSpirit.

It is available at www.ozspirit.com or through the Caritas Australia web site, www.caritas.org.au, where you can subscribe on-line for free.

Fair Trade Fortnight,
3 – 18 May 2008
The Fair Trade Fortnight website is now online at www.fairtrade.com.au
and has information on the Fairtrade Coffee Break; Fair Trade Fiestas; resources; information and more.

 

Simply Sharing Week,
18 – 24 May 2008
Simply Sharing Week is coming around again!  Simply Sharing Week is encouraging Australians to ensure that children at risk worldwide have access to healthcare and a nutritious diet.  The theme for this year is to ‘Help Kids Get Off to a Good Start’. 
Simply Sharing Week kits are currently available for download from our website at www.simplysharingweek.org.au Students can also complete the activity online at www.getofftoagoodstart.org.au

 

Jubilee Sunday, 18 May 2008
As Jubilee Sunday is approaching. On May 18 churches, social justice groups and youth groups throughout Australia are invited to participate in the new Jubilee Congregations Program. It’s easy for groups to become Jubilee Congregations through Jubilee Australia’s new website.

 

Social Justice and Humanitarian Writing Competition
The 2008 Eureka Street Writers Awards are now open to submissions. For more information including submission guidelines go to: www.crimeandjusticefestival.com

 

Refugee Week, 15 -21 June 2008
The Refugee Council of Australia is once again coordinating Refugee Week. The week will be celebrated from June 15 to 21 to coincide with UN World Refugee Day on June 20. Refugee Week is a time to acknowledge and celebrate the amazing contribution that refugees make to Australian society. The Refugee Council would like to invite you to start thinking and planning how you, your school, your community or your workplace could participate in Refugee Week 2008.For more information about how to present refugee related stories within this event download our resource kit www.refugeecouncil.org.au

 

Stand Up, 17 – 19 October 2008
The major mass mobilisation event this year for Make Poverty History is ‘Stand Up’.
Put this date in your diary and commit to holding an event. www.standagainstpoverty.org

QLD: Photographic exhibition Brisbane: 9 -11 May 2008

Hamish Cairns has just returned from Cambodia where through the lens of his camera he "saw the face of God, in the eyes of the children of Cambodia". He and fellow photographer Gavin Brown are holding a photo exhibition, week-end 9 -11 May, of their works with all proceeds going to Caritas' work in Cambodia for children affected by HIV/Aids. The famous War (Vietnam and Cambodian Wars) Correspondent Photographer Tim Page will speak at the opening which is being held on Friday night, 9 May, at the Francis Rush Centre. There is a $5 entry fee and there will be drinks and nibbles, the photo show to view, and a short talk and film by Tim Page on the clearing of land mines in Cambodia. Jane Woodford, Caritas Australia communication officer, will also speak about Caritas' work in Cambodia. For more information contact Patricia Ryan at Caritas Australia’s Brisbane Office:

(w) 07 3336 9412 or email:

patriciar@caritas.org.au

WA: The Road to Hope and Sunflowers in Lira: A journey to the heart of Uganda photographic exhibition, Perth, May – June 2008
In 2007 a team from the University of Notre Dame and Caritas Australia took a life changing journey through the heart of Uganda. They returned with extraordinary stories of challenge and hope, despair and victory, war and peace, Ebola, and how their lives were changed while journeying through a country with one amazing set of road rules. As a culmination of their journey they have put together an amazing photographic exhibition which is being held at the School of Arts and Sciences Notre Dame University ND 24 Croke St Fremantle for the next few months.

 

SA: Ecological Conversion Adelaide, 31 May 2008
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan, Adelaide would like to invite you to a day of prayerful reflection on the theme ‘ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION’ at the Adelaide College of Divinity. Presented by local Adelaide Theologian Fr Denis Edwards, this day will provide you will an opportunity for some personal reflection and sharing on how we can make a difference in the way we can cherish the whole of creation and contribute to sustaining our world for future generations. www.opw.catholic.org.au

For more events around Australia subscribe to the Briefing papers from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, which can be viewed online at:
www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au