Caritas launches 35th Campaign for Peace
Caritas Estrie launched its 35th Campaign for Peace Wednesday, an appeal that always has the two goals do promoting peace awareness and a call to share. For the 35th year, Gisèle Bourgault, an animator at the Beauvoir Sanctuary will serve as honorary president and messenger of peace.
In the campaign, candles are offered for a suggested donation of $5. Nearly 10,000 candle units will be in circulation and the organization hopes to raise $45,000 from November 15 to December 24, throughout the Townships. Nearly 1,000 volunteers will go door-to-door or around malls or other public places to offer candles.
Peace that cannot thrive as long as even one human being is unable to live with dignity, equality and freedom. To wish for peace is also an implied commitment to build it through daily acts of sharing, justice, forgiveness, and respect for individual and collective rights.
The funds raised by Caritas Estrie will be used to support various social and community development organizations in every district of the Estrie that work with impoverished people. These include the Magog Memphremagog Food Bank, the Coaticook MRC Disability Association, the Filles d’isabel from Windsor, the East Angus Recovery Fund, the Scouts de l’estrie, the Sacré-coeur and Fatima schools in Lac-mégantic and Sercovie-carrefour des aînés in Sherbrooke.