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Week of Oct 5th

  • World Mental Health Day

    World Mental Health Day


    10/10/2020

    Here's a 75 second prayer for today.

    It's good to know the facts!   (Note - there's no sound with this clip!)

    You're invited to pray for those who are feeling fragile using THIS VIDEO.

    Here's another short prayer (1:15) for Mental Health.

    A powerful reflection (devised and performed by some of our wonderful students) on asking: Are you OK?

    This is a 12 minute video especially for our staff - who are just amazing but who still need to look our for and after themselves in order to look out for and after their students!

     

  • International Day of the Girl Child

    International Day of the Girl Child


    11/10/2020

    International Day of the Girl Child

    Here's a terrific video (2:02) from 2018:

    And this is from 2019:

     

    BUT DID YOU KNOW?

    • Worldwide, nearly 1 in 4 girls aged 15–19 years is neither employed nor in education or training compared to 1 in 10 boys of the same age. By 2021 around 435 million women and girls will be living on less than $1.90 a day — including 47 million pushed into poverty as a result of COVID-19.
    • 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence. Emerging data shows that since the outbreak of COVID-19, violence against women and girls (VAWG), and particularly domestic violence, has INTENSIFIED.
    • At least 60% of countries still discriminate against daughters’ rights to inherit land and non-land assets in either law or practice.

     

    As adolescent girls worldwide assert their power as change-makers, International Day of the Girl 2020 will focus on their demands to:

    • Live free from gender-based violence, harmful practices, and HIV and AIDS
    • Learn new skills towards the futures they choose
    • Lead as a generation of activists accelerating social change

    So, why is education for girls so important around the world?

    Here's what the World Bank says:

    “Investing in girls’ education may well be the highest return investment in the developing world.”

    TODAY - you are particularly invited to pray:

    that, across all faiths and cultures, women and girls would be seen as made in the image of God, with equal worth and value as men and boys;

    for protection of the girl child -whether that be in terms of gender selective abortion, female genital mutilation and forced marriages;

    for decision makers - in churches, institutions and governments - to smash the glass ceilings that prevent girls from enjoying full equality.

    And we ask our smiling saint - that champion of girls' education and well-being - 

    St. Julie: pray for us, protect us and bless us.