“Many thanks for your recent letter with the enclosed donation for £100. Your thoughtfulness and generosity have been immensely appreciated. Your continuing support for my charitable work in Western Kenya is much appreciated. Every donation helps, no matter how small.”

Fr Denis O’Connor, St Peter’s Church, Bartley Greet, Birmingham

“Once again, very many thanks for your continued support of our project and your generous donation of £500. Our monthly report for February 2009 has confirmed that last month we treated more inpatients and delivered more babies than ever before in Makunduchi. We also have exceeded the Zanzibar government’s immunisation targets”.

Ru and Rebecca Macdonagh ( Taunton Hospital consultants) For Health Improvement Project Zanzibar

“I would like to thank you all for the £1,500 I have just received from you I will be using it to pay school fees and requirements for a group of primary children and also buy food for poor families. I thank Father Greg and the Trust for continuing to help these children and families through me. Next month, 15th April, I will be leaving for Italy and I will be back at Moroto at the end of August.   May the Lord reward all of you for your generosity towards the poor.

 Sister Franca Torlontano, Comboni Technical College , Moroto, Africa

“Thank you very much for your precious donation of £100 received through our Don Bosco Mission HQ. Your regular donations assure us that we have your unstinted support in all our works of charity towards the  needy and marginalized. We are happy to share with you the good news that the classes for unemployed youth, preparing them for livelihood, is in great demand.”

Fr Edwin d’Souza, Salesian Brothers, Shrine of Don Bosco’s Madonna, Mumbai, India

 “Thank you for your generous donation of £100 towards the work of the Society of St Peter the Apostle, training priests in the mission dioceses. We greatly appreciate your support for the work of the Society. Mass is offered each day in St Peter’s in Rome for all the supporters of the SPA.”

Suzy Herron, National Co-ordinator, Society of St Peter the Apostle.

 “We are most grateful for your generous Easter donation of £150 which you have sent us in answer to our recent Appeal. Your gift will make it possible for missionaries to bring food, pure water and shelter to many who are sick and hungry.”

.          Norman Waldron, President of The Little Way Association, Clapham Common, London

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 “Thank you for your kind Lenten gift of £100 which will be assigned according to your wishes. Please know that you are remembered in prayer this Lenten season.”

  Neville Kyrke-Smith, National Director, Aid to the Church I Need

 “Thank you very much to the Trust for their ongoing support of Hope Farm which is hugely appreciated. With the £500 you have sent, we have been able to refurbish the garage which gets maximum use as a church on Sundays, for children’s ministry on Saturdays, prayer meeting and bible study on Tuesday morning, after school maths lessons in the afternoon as well as general counselling.”

Andrew Wartnaby, Founder of Hope Farm, Thembisa , South Africa

 A total of £2,500 has been donated by the Trust to priests

in need all round the world. They have been asked to remember the intentions of Trust supporters in their prayers.