Wise gifts!

Good News came in just before Christmas from Canon Richard Darmody (left) who is planning his Pilgrimage to Carrow Road  on March 1st to raise money for a school in Uganda. A team will be going there from his parish in Ramsey to help with the work as well.

The latest news is that two large gifts have been received of £20,000 from a school for accommodation and £10,000 from an anonymous donor for equipment. It just goes to show how one person pushing the boat out can release real generosity in others too and change the world. Richard writes:

I don’t want these big gifts to take the spotlight away from all those people who want to raise money and who can only give the odd coin or so-let’s not forget what Jesus said about the widow’s mite, "she gave eveything she had." All efforts are welcome. Neither should the big gifts take away from the innocence of what we are doing. Furthermore even 50 thousand would be a tiny drop in an enormous ocean of poverty and need. No, we now have the opportunity of doing something really significant, perhaps by being able to pay for more teachers etc. Besides who knows where this will all end, and what people’s generosity will achieve.

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