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.
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.
