{"id":1577,"date":"2015-11-28T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T06:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2015-11-28T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T04:53:27","slug":"st-bridgets-refugee-action-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/st-bridgets-refugee-action-group-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St Bridget\u2019s refugee action group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em><strong>From Robert Stewart<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>THE parish refugee action\u00a0 group\u00a0 has done some networking with St Dominic\u2019s in Camberwell. Their <em>Welcome the Stranger<\/em> group has hosted a refugee family for the last two years. We have had a very exciting development come out of that networking:<\/p>\n<p>St Dominic\u2019s have been very successful fundraising for the support of refugees and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>St Dominic\u2019s have enough funds to partner with another parish in supporting a second refugee family.<\/p>\n<p>They are interested in partnering with us.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst details are yet to be finalised they have enough funds to go halves with us in the rent of a property to house a refugee family up to $10,000 per year for two years. This means we need only to raise $10,000 per year for two years. I am very confident we can do this.<\/p>\n<p>St Dominic\u2019s are happy to share their knowledge and experience with us to help us get our project off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>St Dominic\u2019s have in place and arrangement with Catholic Care to enable all donations to their refugee project to be tax deductible. We will be able to replicate this arrangement at St Bridget\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>This means that our group\u2019s aspiration to host a refugee family is now looking very doable.<\/p>\n<p>This also means we will need a separate parish bank account for the refugee action group.<\/p>\n<p>We will also have to work out details of signatories etc, but we can work that out as we go. I am interested in what your and Fr Dennis&#8217;s recommendations would be for how best to do this<\/p>\n<p>The next meeting of the Action Group is on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Thursday December 3 at 8pm<\/strong> <\/span>in the narthex.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Robert Stewart THE parish refugee action\u00a0 group\u00a0 has done some networking with St Dominic\u2019s in Camberwell. Their Welcome the Stranger group has hosted a refugee family for the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parish-events","tag-refugee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}