Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Loloma Rummage Sale!
To All who contributed to Alison’s Fiji Rummage sale for School Fees may every Happiness and Blessing be yours, today and always!
Received $5,296.00 Fijian dollars from Alison on the 19th January 2009 at 3 p.m.
Funds started to go out as soon as we arrived home as people knew we were to receive them! For the next two day $ 5,300.00 was spent on School fees, uniforms, sandals, school bags, text books but money was saved on pencils, crayons and pens as Linda had brought in tons, bless her!
Three Pre – Schools had ten children funded to the cost of $ 500.00
Five Primary Schools had twenty five poor children funded. $1,800.00
Nausori & Vunimono High School, five boys & four girls. $ 900.00
Champagnat Institute saw two young ladies @ $600 each. $1,200.00
This course is for Pre-School & Nanny Training.
TPFA, one young man’s first term covered. $ 900.00
This young man has had to work for the past three years to
support an ill mother & grandmother & will continue to work
part time to support them all.
January 24th 2009 second part of the Rummage Sale held in Nausori Parish Hall made $1,570.00 in just three hours.
As you know half of our taking $3,433 was to have gone to Fr. Finn for the Parish Hall floor covering which the Loloma Team can tell you is in a dreadful state, but because of the dreadful floods Fiji suffered the first few weeks of January
Fr. Finn agreed that all the Rummage Sale taking that we received should cover school fees, God Bless him! Thus Saturdays $1,570.00 has gone to pay for very poor children in the Parish Primary School. Each one of these children would not be in school today but for the Rummage Sale and all who made the Sale possible we send again our gratitude and sincere thanks.
May the Lord continue to give an increase of health, strength and courage to all who are Loloma!
Yours truly,
Sister Patricia Mc Laughlin DC
