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Help your fellow teachers and support staff to educate children across the world.

The Catholic Schools Office of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, which employs teachers and staff across 58 schools, has a proud history of supporting teachers working in Catholic communities in developing countries around the world.

Since its foundation in 2011, Catholic Mission has supported educators in developing countries including Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Uganda and Vietnam.

Due to a lack of basic resources, the committed teachers in these countries often lack the means to make the most of their skills or the potential of their students. They work in schools in low socio-economic communities and with students living with disease and disability.

The Catholic Mission workplace giving program makes a vital difference to these teachers and their students.

 

How it works

  • Nominate how much you wish to donate to the program from your salary on a regular basis;
    • Workplace giving donations are deducted automatically from your salary, via the payroll system
    • Post-tax donations are tax deductible
  • Donations are transferred to Catholic Mission. Catholic Mission is the Australian agency of the Pontifical Missionary Societies, and is a registered charity with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status, so your donations are tax deductible
  • Money is then transferred to predetermined projects to support teachers in developing countries.

 

What are the benefits of the program?

  • It is easy and effortless
  • It is flexible - you can join, alter or withdraw at anytime
  • You can make donations to the Catholic Mission program in an efficient and tax-effective manner. Your tax benefit occurs as you give and according to how much you give
  • All deductions are itemised on your fortnightly pay advice showing both fortnightly and year to date amounts

“The program is a fabulous way to help our colleagues from around the world who are less fortunate than us. The support provided by the program ensures teachers receive a regular wage and students receive a qualified teacher every day. Education helps to break the poverty cycle - do your bit to help by donating to Catholic Mission today!" - Kim Wilson, Principal at St Mary’s Primary School, Scone

 

How to get started

Simply email workplacegiving@mn.catholic.org.au to sign up today.

As staff members working with students, we recognise the importance of teacher and support staff training to enhance student learning.

Your workplace donation to those schools and systems supported by the Teachers Helping Teachers program through Catholic Mission will make a substantial difference in the lives of students and ultimately the countries in which they live.

 

See how you and your colleagues have supported the project so far!

  • Over $190,000 has been donated to support those who are a part of the Catholic Mission program.
  • This unique program now reaches three developing nations.
  • Beatrix High School, an initiative of the Karunalaya Leprosy Care Centre in Puri India, has received assistance to expand their dairy farm to provide a steady income stream to assist with teacher wages with 667 students, including 170 with leprosy and 18 teachers.
  • St François Technical High School - Phnom Penh, Cambodia - 90 students have the opportunity for vocational training in sustainable agriculture. A further 90 students will commence upon the completion of the tourism training facilities in 2020.

Pyinya Sanyae Institute of Education (PSIE) in Yangon, Myanmar, trains teachers in child-centred pedagogies to be places in 16 village community schools: 80% of all student-teachers in the diploma program come from rural provinces in Myanmar. Last year, 12 teachers graduated, with a further 14 pre-diploma and 24 diploma trainees enrolled and 584 children benefiting from child focussed teaching across rural Myanmar.