Last week there was a very special event in St.Aidan’s High School. A fundraising week. SCIAF did a collaboration with UK Aid, every pound that is donated to SCIAF – UK aid will match those SCIAF donations. St.Aidan’s is giving £800 to SCIAF meaning SCIAF will get £1600 in total. The money is collected in R.E classes using the WEE BOX. Students donate money in return for certain activities in the classes for example watching a movie or extra study time.
The reason for this SCIAF fundraising week in September is due to during lent we were not able to do charity work because of the lockdown in March.
SCIAF – Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund – does many fundraiser and campaigns to help poor families grow their food, stand with communities to build peace and promote justice as well as educate the poor to help them fulfil their lives.
Mark booker, an education officer who would often come to the school to do retreats, is contacting the school thinking of ways how to do these activities due to the Covid-19 Restrictions. One of those retreats would be ‘care for the environment’ with 2nd year in return to raise money for SCIAF. The students donate money before–hand as payment for the retreats which then the money will be donated to SCIAF.
St. Aidan’s has been doing charity work for years now, they have been successful to fundraise a very large amount of money to various charities and we are looking forward to work with many more charities and organisations in the future.
