SSVDP Launches Winter Appeal in Australia

SYDNEY, May 25, 2003 (catholicweekly.com.au): Chris Lindsay in this Sunday’s The Catholic Weekly reports –  Pockets of “very deep poverty” still exist in our society, says the former Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer. And “in these tough years – in particular during the winter months the situation facing the poor greatly worsens”. Mr Fischer made his comments in launching the St Vincent de Paul Society’s Winter Appeal to raise money, clothes and blankets for the disadvantaged in cities and the bush. particularly in rural and regional NSW, and praised the Society for its efficiency, citing its low administration cost of only six cents in the dollar.

Courtesty of Tim WIlliams, CM