Some background on the Fund
For nearly 13 years Family & Life has organised an annual appeal to help people in dire poverty. This appeal was known as the Good Shepherd Fund. This Fund was initially established in response to reports from Thailand of teenagers enslaved by the prostitution industry who were forced to undergo abortions.
Today the Fund continues to provide financial assistance to children born into conditions of extreme poverty with a particular emphasis on rescuing children from the streets of Thailand and the Philippines.
Assistance has also been provided to purchase important child vaccines in Central America; to support children at a school in Bethlehem; to fund a pregnancy counselling service in Russia and to provide materials for seminarians in Africa. At the two main centres in Bangkok and Manila, Family & Life’s annual fund has provided for additional housing, a school extension, computer equipment, medical supplies and educational resources and support. Many children have been spared a life of extreme poverty and sexual exploitation and abuse as a result of the generosity of Family & Life supporters.
Family & Life is committed to continuing and expanding this important project. As part of our renewed effort in this area we have decided to rename the fund. Henceforth, this annual appeal will be known as the Saint Patrick Fund.
To help Family & Life continue its campaign to rescue street children and its continuing support for those street children already rescued, please DONATE
Sakau replied on 2nd of February 2012, 3:12pm
I ltensied to this for the first time today and it seemed so appropriate as today is Good Shepherd Sunday. I was thinking in Church how I lately have been much more like a goat trying to ram down the fence, trying to speed up the process. I guess following also sometimes means waiting for the Shepherd to say it is time.