This year, Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion theme is ‘Be More’. It challenges us to venture into a new experience of compassion, and is taken from the invitation of St Oscar Romero, to “Aspire not to have more, but to BE more.” Throughout Project Compassion 2021, inspiring stories from Bangladesh, Solomon Islands, Tanzania and Indonesia will be shared with students, highlighting the importance of working hand in hand with communities around the world.

Our challenge to ‘BE More’ takes us beyond ourselves. This Lent, we have already collected money through our Shrove Tuesday pancake breakfast and will be collecting money in pastoral classes between now and the end of term.

As an added incentive for students, the year group with the most money raised for Project Compassion by the end of the term will receive a mufti day in term 2.