PLANS FOR FIJIAN CHILDREN’S HOME
The raising of funds to build a children’s home in Fiji has been accepted as a special missionary undertaking by the Anglican Community of the Sacred Name. The home, which it is estimated will cost £28,000, will be built on five acres provided by the Fijian Government. An anonymous donor has already given £lO,OOO. Sister Constance, of the Community, said yesterday that two sisters had .visited Fiji last year and had been disturbed at the conditions under which the poor and widowed had to live without the aid of any social security.
The Community of the Sacred Name has many connexions with the Diocese of Polynesia. Part of the staff of the new home will be sisters of the community. The growing social work being undertaken by the Anglican church in Fiji had produced the need for a home “now, not tomorrow or sometime,” said the Bishop in Polynesia (the Rt. Rev. J. C. Vockler). Accepting the appeal as a special effort, the community was not planning to approach the public but would depend on private contributions, Sister Constance said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31118, 22 July 1966, Page 12
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185PLANS FOR FIJIAN CHILDREN’S HOME Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31118, 22 July 1966, Page 12
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