This Lent, turn your compassion into action and support vulnerable communities around the world.
Ways to Unite this Lent!
Take on a 40-day walking challenge this Lent. Bring clean, safe water to people around the world.
Sign up as a school, walk in solidarity and raise funds to help people who have to walk to collect water every day.
Be the host with the most this Lent. Bring your community together and raise funds to change the lives of people living in poverty.
This Lent, you’ll change the lives of people like Patricia
Patricia is a 14-year-old girl living in Malaita in the Solomon Islands.
Before clean water was available in her community, she spent up to two hours a day walking to collect water in a dangerous and hilly rainforest, often leaving her too tired for homework and schooling. With the support of the Common Home project, implemented by the Catholic Diocese of Auki, water taps have been installed outside her family's house and Patricia’s life has become easier. She now has more time to help her family, play with friends, and support her younger siblings.
Although her schooling has been interrupted, she plans to return and continue her education in 2027 with the hope of one day becoming a teacher, like her father.
Project Compassion in Action Around Australia!
Launching in style!
In the Archdiocese of Sydney, things kicked off live on air on The Today Show, with a special Shrove Tuesday broadcast from St Mary’s Cathedral College. Students, staff, Bishop Danny Meagher, and the Caritas Australia team had gathered to showcase the transformative impact of Project Compassion to audiences around the country, complete with a live pancake-making competition, BIG Water Walk event, and more.
A further 26 launch events were held across 21 dioceses, with thousands joining to mark the start of this year’s campaign and reaffirm their commitment to standing alongside the world’s most vulnerable during Lent.
A procession of love and compassion in Darwin!
Schools across the Diocese of Darwin stood in love and solidarity with vulnerable communities around the world, starting at their launch liturgy led by Bishop Charles Gauci, where students processed in carrying a water bucket, fruit basket, plant and first aid kit to represent the featured stories for Project Compassion 2026.Schools across the diocese also stepped up to raise vital funds throughout Lent, including Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, who began the sacred season with a Shrove Tuesday pancake sale.
A Community Walk for Change
The Walk Worthy team embraced The Long Walk for Water during Lent, raising more than $2,000 while sharing their journey with supporters along the way. Their challenge finished with a two-hour walk through the hills of Cowra on Easter Sunday, standing in solidarity with communities who walk long distances every day to access safe water.
The Diocese of Sandhurst steps up for it's 6th BIG Water Walk!
This year, the Catholic community of Echuca in the Diocese of Sandhurst gathered for its sixth annual BIG Water Walk, a tradition of prayer, community and solidarity through Project Compassion.Parishioners from St Mary’s Echuca joined students from St Mary’s Primary School and St Joseph’s College for the 5km walk, led by Fr Novie. After a liturgy and reflection on standing with communities facing poverty and injustice, participants carried buckets of water through Echuca before finishing at St Mary’s Primary School.
There, students gathered in prayer to reflect on the journey millions make each day to access safe water, before celebrating together with a sausage sizzle.
Meet the Faces of Project Compassion 2027!
Discover powerful stories of courage, resilience and hope, and see the life-changing impact your support makes possible.
Meet Patricia
14-year-old Patricia lives in a remote village on the island of Malaita in Solomon Islands. She once spent hours collecting water, making school difficult. With easier access to clean water, her life has improved, and she hopes to return to school and become a teacher.
Meet Reaksmey
Reaksmey, 23, from Kampot, Cambodia, grew up deaf and isolated from society because of his hearing disability. Through Epic Arts, he learnt sign language for the first time, formed new friendships and now works at their café earning a steady income.
Meet Yeshareg
Yeshareg, a mother of two in south-western Ethiopia, struggled with hunger and poverty. Through Caritas Ethiopia's CLEAR project, she learned potato farming, joined a women's savings group and raised sheep, enabling her family to eat three meals a day.
Caritas Venezuela
Following the devastating Venezuela earthquake, Caritas delivered food, water, hygiene supplies and medicine to families in need, with volunteers working around the clock to provide critical humanitarian assistance to those facing displacement, loss and uncertainty.
