Our objective is to raise the level of awareness in our Parish Family here in Esher and Claygate on issues of Justice, Peace and Social Concerns Locally, Nationally and throughout our world.

The Justice, Peace and Social Concerns Committee meets three or four times a year (evenings). Members of the Committee are usually responsible for an Aid Agency or a charity. Events in the past have included joining forces with the Social Committee for a Quiz Night to raise funds for the Cardinal Hume Centre, a Book Sale for the Newmans Trust, taking soup up to the homeless for The Passage. Each year we host the Care Mass at this Church in the Spring. Also we do a Coffee Morning for the retired people of the Parish after Mass on a Tuesday every few weeks.

MOTHER OF PEACE CHILDREN'S HOME, SOUTH AFRICA
We have recently started supporting a new charity in South Africa called "Mother of Peace Children's Home" www.motherofpeace.ie This is an orphanage located in Kwa Zulu Natal on an old sugar plantation. The orphanage houses 50 HIV orphans and vulnerable children. The charity's contributions go towards providing training volunteers who care for HIV/AIDS patients; agricultural skills training; family-care of abandoned children in the community and a day care centre for young children.  For more information or if you would like to give a donation to the charity, please see the website details or speak to a member of staff in the Parish Office.  Many of the social events run in our Parish currently support the Mother of Peace Children's Home.

Other projects we Support are: Twinning Projects with Mexico and Kenya (Faces of Africa)

•  Twinning Projects with Mexico and Kenya
• Cafod www.cafod.org.uk
• Cardinal Hume Centre www.cardinalhumecentre.org.uk
• The Passage www.passage.org.uk
• Traidcraft www.traidcraftinteractive.com
• Amnesty International www.amnesty.org.uk
• Newman Trust www.newmantrust.org.uk
• Kingston Advocacy www.kag.org.uk
• Thames Homeless angelahorsey@thp.virgin.net

The Chairman of the Justice, Peace and Social Concerns Committee is Jan Woolhead

Please feel free to print off below a Yearbook for 2006, which features more details of the charities we support and how we have helped them over the past year or so.