Community Involvement
Socktober
28 August
Catholic Mission...Can you help?
This year Damascus College is participating in Socktober. We invite our students to connect with young people experiencing challenges in the developing world through education and the world game of soccer.
We’ve had a challenging year ourselves, but the benefit of this program is that it covers several core parts of our curriculum, and it has been designed to make it easy for us to deliver, and fun for you to engage with at home.
Over several weeks, we’ll take a mission journey around the world, from India to Ethiopia, Thailand to Cambodia, and discover how other cultures live, learn, work and play.
Socktober works best when every student is on board. Take a moment to register your young people for Socktober so they have the opportunity to join their friends and make a difference for children in need around the world. Setting up the page takes only a few minutes.
Please register at our school’s Socktober page here:
http://www.socktober.org.au/fundraising/schools/damascus-college-ballarat
Then, simply share the page and encouraging family and friends to get behind your Socktober journey.
You’ll be asked to pick a fundraising goal when you register. Whatever you raise towards this goal will support the basic needs of vulnerable children around the world, such as food, clean water, healthcare, and education. You might choose from one of the targets below:
$30 can help purchase food, school uniforms and books for kindergarten children in Cambodia.
$75 can help towards purchasing sports equipment for children with disabilities in Cambodia.
$393 can go towards the costs of medical support and physiotherapy for children with disabilities in Cambodia.
Week 1 : Compassion
Catholic Social Teaching: Solidarity
Discover the origin of the iconic Catholic Mission ‘sockball’ and learn how to make your own. This week's Mission Pack takes us to India, where a group of young people made the first ‘sockball’ by hand, inspiring hundreds of students across Australia. Learn about their story, and discover mission in the south of India.