Ipswich Cares is an initiative with Compassion Australia that challenges the City of Ipswich in the month of September to give to help an overseas need.

Ipswich Cares was launched in 2007 and has partnered with the following:

  • 2011 Set up a piggery in Rwanda.
  • 2010 Clean drinking water in Bangladesh.
  • 2009 Kitchen facilities in North India.
  • 2008 Education Resource Centre in Ethiopia.
  • 2007 Aid to the town of Legaspi in the Philippines that was covered by a mud slide.

How can you help in September?

  1. Consider buying a ticket or table at the 2011 Launch on Wednesday 24th August 2011 at 7pm at the Ipswich Civic Hall where Mayor Paul Pisasale will launch the 2011 project.
  2. Think about what your business can do in the month of September
Examples:
a. Some Ipswich Real Estates are giving $50 per house sold in the month of September.
b. Some businesses give a percentage of their sales in the month of September some 5% some 10%
c. Some Ipswich Schools and Churches doing something special in the month of September.
d. Some Ipswich Shops allowing donation tins to be secured to their counter in September.
e. Donate an appropriate item for auction.

 

Rwanda Project

In partnership with Compassion Australia, we will provide income-generation skills, training and opportunities for 700 parents or caregivers of highly-vulnerable children in south and east Rwanda.  Each will receive training in a particular skill, from produce trading to farming and crop cultivation.  They will also receive at least one farm animal to support the nutrition in their home and their family’s income-generating abilities.

Highly-vulnerable children in Compassion’s programs have either been abandoned by their parents or both of their parents have died; many from HIV/AIDS.  As a result, they are in foster care or alternative living arrangements with Compassion’s help.


Compassion

Compassion is a well respected charity working around the world.  Independent charity auditors PriceWaterhouseCooper show that over 80% of what you give is actually used in the project.


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