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MISSION

• Edmund Rice Social Justice Centre Mission is to promote social justice to Indigenous people, Asylum Seekers and Pacific Islander people who are affected by climate change. This is a distribution of wealth,opportunities and privileges within the community and human rights through research and community education

AIMS

• Their main aim is to focus on three groups: Indigenous people in Australia and overseas, refugees and asylum seekers in Australia and internationally and Pacific Islander people who are affected by climate change. They help these people because they are disadvantaged and deserve the same treatment we get such as human rights.

RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL BACKGROUND AND INFORMATION

• This organisation is named after Edmund Rice. Edmund was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. He was born in Callen Ireland in 1762 and is the founder of two religious organisations of Religious Brothers: The Congregation of Christian Brothers and The Presentation Brothers. In 1789, Edmund married Mary Elliot. Unfortunately she later died in child birth. In Edmunds mourning, he became closer to God and in his brokenness, he moved with sympathy and began to realise other people's brokenness. Later in 1802, he set up a free school for boys living in poverty.

THE WORK THEY DO AND ITS IMPACT

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

• Providing help and support
• Promoting the needs of assistance to indigenous people who are disadvantaged
• Encouraging and supporting the development of direct services
• Assisting indigenous people who are experiencing financial disadvantages

REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

• Providing help and support
• Promoting the needy and also the refugees and asylum seekers are disadvantaged
• Encouraging and supporting direct services
• Assisting with financial disadvantages

ALSO...ON TOP OF THESE THINGS THEY

• Raise awareness about causes of poverty, injustice and need for human rights to be respected
• Support groups for these groups individually or in groups
• Promotes social action such as activities that engages people for social change
• Assists in development of skills and strategies for successful social change
• Get schools to educate people about asylum seekers issues in the classroom e.g human rights

MY JUDGMENT ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF WHAT THEY DO

• Edmund Rice Social Justice Centre is making the world a better place by educating people. Everyone deserves to have human rights and be treated the same no matter where they come from, what colour their skin is and what they look like.

ALSO......

• This organisation is helping the asylum seekers, refugees and indigenous people have a better life and also trying to give them a home, family, human rights, assistance with financial disadvantages and providing help and support.

WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT

• You should support this organisation because it is making the world a better place. It's helping people treat people with respect and giving human rights to the people who are not as fortunate as others.
• The organisation educates us to realise how lucky we are and how not to take advantage of what we have because what we have is a whole world to others.

MY PROPOSIAL

• Over the years, Edmund Rice Social Justice Centre has been involved in buying and selling fair trades goods. This includes coffee and also tea. My proposal is that we could buy some Fairtrade goods such as tea and coffee from them and then have a store for people to buy them. This will go towards the indigenous, Pacific Islanders and asylum seekers.

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