Primary Social Justice Day - Friday 23rd June

Last Friday a group of children from the Mini Vinnies group and myself attended the Annual Primary Social Justice Day at John Paul II Senior Campus at Marayong. We were welcomed to the day by St Joseph's Kingswood who put on a reflective presentation on Celebrating Diversity.

After that we attended two workshops. The ones we went to were Mini Vinnies, Catholic Earth Care, Caritas and the Migrant Resource Centre at Blacktown presenting how we could help new migrants especially refugees from other nations settle into school. These four workshops helped us really think about what we take for granted in terms of our lifestyle and the needs of many people not only overseas but here in Australia. We were very lucky to have some outstanding speakers who helped us think about what we as young Australian Catholics could do just in our school and local communities. We only wish we could have attended more workshops. We thank Ken and Lisa for the organisation of the day, the workshop leaders for arranging their diaries to fit us in and the Senior Students from JPII who served us a great lunch..as a matter of fact two of our member were able to arrange seconds!