Sharing What We Have

Little is known about Central Catholic's Interact Club, a high school branch of Rotary International. The club members meet early in the morning without any announcements the day before. The members just know and go. For the past two years they have been raising money via bake sales and ice cream sales at lunch to sponsor four students at the Byimana Science School in Rwanda, where I taught from 1995-1999. They even obtained some matching money from our local Rotary Club one year to augment what they had raised. It takes only $200.00 to sponsor a student for the whole year at this boarding school, the top-notch science school in Rwanda.
Today, Brother Malisaba Straton, a Rwandan Marist Brother, will visit Central Catholic to thank and update the Interact Club for their generous support, as well as to speak to several religion classes about the Genocide and the current situation in Rwanda. He will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Herlihy, who have begun at fund which now sponsors 110 Rwandan students who would not be able to attend school without aid.
All of this goes on while the Central Catholic student body is raising money for our Christmas Project, which aids 51 families with food and Christmas gifts, and for the Santa Fund, sponsored by the Eagle-Tribune. Our Marist Youth group has begun a mentoring program at the Boys and Girls Club while also raising money to help support our Marist school in Sarghoda, Pakistan.
The message of sharing locally and globaly what we have is rightfully and deeply imbedded in the culture of Central Catholic. May it continue and may it touch our larger Central Catholic Family.
Bro. Rene