Christmas gifts
Our work here at Catholic Social Services brings us across many families and individuals who struggle to provide for their children or themselves.
This is particularly at Christmas, when we celebrate the birth of Christ.
Families and people young and old who live on their own are delighted somebody has thought of them during this Advent time with a special treat.
Our social workers’ office becomes a colourful and chaotic ‘Santa Grove’ with generous gifts from many Wellington Catholic parishes.
In addition to these gifts for Christmas 2014, the Justice, Peace and Development Group from St Thomas More Church of Otari parish gave us $700 cash.
With this donation that they had worked hard to collect we were able to purchase legs of ham to give to several families along with the gifts.
This extra treat was gr
eatly appreciated.
Our staff is very grateful to everyone who supports us and enables us to give a little bit of cheer to the people and families we work with during the year.