Father Joseph Grima, Pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Mississauga, Tim Lee Loy, ShareLife Schools and Employee Campaigns Co-ordinator, and the staff and students of Christ the King School celebrate their efforts on behalf of the 2008 ShareLife campaign. The school raised $8,500 for ShareLife this year. To find out how, read more.
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Shared Insights ... by Arthur Peters, Executive Director
 SPREADING THE WORD
(May 1, 2008) As we enter May, the progress report for ShareLife has a lot of good news and a bit of bad news, too. I’m very happy to tell you we have rounded the halfway mark in our journey toward our 2008 parish campaign goal of $12.0 million, making up some of the $1 million shortfall we originally experienced in the campaign. Unfortunately, we remain 10% or $730,000 behind last year’s progress at this point in the campaign.
We continue to appeal to Catholics in the Archdiocese of Toronto through the mail and public speeches to make a contribution to ShareLife as we work to assist the 34 agencies and 11 grant recipients that are supported through your generosity..
Click here to read the full message.
APPEAL FOR VICTIMS OF CYCLONE NARGIS
In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, more than 20,000 people are already confirmed dead. Another 40,000 are reported missing, and as many as 1 million people have been left homeless. ShareLife is collecting contributions to assist victims of this crisis. [more]
To make a contribution to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis, click here.
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