Kavanagh College Survive-a-Slum

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The Head Students and Service prefects at Kavanagh College will be staying the night in a make-shift slum outside the main office at Kavanagh on Thursday 25th September. We will be going without the basic things we so often take for granted – food, a pillow, deodorant, electronic equipment or quality clothing.

We are raising awareness and also money for Caritas, the Catholic international aid agency, and St Vincent de Paul and Catholic social services who work very closely with families in need in Dunedin giving practical advice and support in terms of food and clothing.

We know that our experience of this slum is nothing like what people who really suffer homelessness have to endure. We know that tomorrow we’ll be able to go home and have a nice meal and a hot shower. But for a short time, it does make us think about how hard it must be, and how lucky we are.

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