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SUDAN/SCOTLAND: Scottish pupils support Sudan's suffering students
By John Newton
Pupils at Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill, who are helping provide education for children in Sudan
A school in Scotland has raised £500 to provide education for Christian refugee children in Sudan.
Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, raised £500 for Aid to the Church in Need's Save the Saveable schools project in North Sudan, which supports up to 20,000 students in 200 Church-run schools.
Students from the school's sixth year charity committee presented the cheque to Lorraine McMahon, Aid to the Church in Need's head of operations in Scotland, at the sixth year's leaving Mass on Thursday, 12th May.
Ms McMahon said: "It's great that these young people have recognised how lucky they are to be able to receive a Christian education in Scotland and are in turn helping students in another part of the world receive the Catholic schooling they deserve."
The money raised this Lent by Cardinal Newman School will enable up to 20 children in Sudan to be educated for one year.
Many of the Christian children studying at Save the Saveable schools are from displacement camps around the capital, Khartoum, where people fled in their millions during the civil war that ended in 2005.
Christian children have often been excluded from state schools because of their faith and their social background.
Not only does the Save the Saveable programme provide access to education, it is also helping keep the Faith alive in North Sudan.
Christianity is not allowed to be taught in government schools in the north which is under Islamic Shari'a law.
For girls in particular, who are often excluded from government schools, Save the Saveable programme represents their only hope of an education.
Aid to the Church in Need was one of a number of charities to benefit from Cardinal Newman High School's Lent fund-raising initiative.