Catholic social agencies’ extraordinary Covid-19 support

Thursday, June 25th, 2020

Catholic social agencies have been helping women’s refuges, foodbanks, whanau in remote regions and many others with a $25,000 special Tindall Foundation grant aimed at relieving some of the hardship caused by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.

Siobhan Dilly, executive officer of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, said Catholic agencies have been distributing the extra Tindall funds through organisations that work directly with families badly affected by the pandemic. Read more in NZCatholic

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