Money raised through the ‘Food Voucher Appeal’ will be available for parishes and schools to help them respond to hunger in their communities.
Money raised through the Archbishop’s Food Voucher Appeal will help us respond to hunger in our communities.
This appeal will fund a special supermarket food voucher scheme to be delivered in schools and parishes across the Archdiocese. Your gift will be used where the need is greatest ensuring that the Church is better able to support people as we come through the COVID-19 crisis together.
Your generosity could help provide food for hungry families and ensure that no one feels forgotten or alone at this worrying time. Your donations can alleviate stresses and provide a sense of hope.
We have already received three generous donations to support our food poverty relief efforts and will be distributing in excess of £100,000 in food vouchers over the coming months thanks to the generosity of Barclays Bank, the National Lottery Community Fund and the Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation.
These gifts are already helping people in communities across south Wales, for example, the emergency food kitchen set up at SS David Lewis and Francis Xavier’s Church in Usk. A team of dedicated volunteers are providing hot meals and delivering ‘shop and drop’ deliveries to elderly and vulnerable people.
But the demand is unprecedented and we are now asking for your assistance in this work. Struggling families and vulnerable individuals need your help more than ever. Thank you for your generous support for the Archbishop’s Fund.
Pope Francis is often reminding us of our duty to ‘reach out’:
“We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters; the poor, people with disabilities, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.”
Peter’s Pence 