Scottish Catholic Observer

Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, raised £500 for Aid to the Church in Need’s Save the Saveable project in North Sudan, which supports up to 20,000 students in 200 Church-run schools.

Students from the school’s sixth year charity committee presented the cheque (above) to Lorraine McMahon, ACN head of operations in Scotland, at the sixth year’s leaving Mass on Thursday May 12.

“It’s great that these young people have recognised how lucky they are to be able to receive a Christian education in Scotland and are in turn helping students in another part of the world receive the Catholic schooling they deserve,” Ms McMahon said.

The money raised this Lent by Cardinal Newman HS will enable up to 20 children in Sudan to be educated for one year.

Many of the Christian children studying at Save the Saveable schools are from displacement camps around the capital, Khartoum, where people fled in their millions during the civil war that ended in 2005.

Christian children have often been excluded from state schools because of their faith and their social background.

Not only does the Save the Saveable programme provide access to education, it is also helping keep the Faith alive in North Sudan.

Christianity is not allowed to be taught in government schools in the north, which is under Islamic Shari‘a law.

For girls in particular, who are often excluded from government schools, the Save the Saveable programme represents their only hope of an education.