Loreto Day

This is our day to celebrate our strong Loreto and Mary Ward heritage. Loreto Day is also our major social justice event.

Our Year 11 students choose a cause to support. This cause is linked to the work of the IBVM and has a focus on women and children. The weeks preceding Loreto Day are spent raising awareness for the cause.

On Loreto Day, each House is responsible for fundraising by organising and managing different stalls creating a carnival atmosphere in the school. The highlight of the day is the liturgy followed by the Loreto Day concert.

 

Loreto Days have helped raise awareness and financial support for the following causes:
2009	MILK Program Supporting Children in Zambia
2008	Mamre House Supporting Sudanese refugees in Australia.
2007	The Phujllay Project Supporting Street Kids in Bolivia.
2006	St Kitzo Supporting children in South Africa affected by poverty and conflict associated with HIV/AIDS.
2005	The Timor Leste Alola Foundation Providing packs for pregnant women containing the necessities they need to care for themselves in childbirth as well as their newborn babies.
2004	The Fistula Foundation in Ethiopia.
2003	Centacare Wilcannia-Forbes helping to provide health and financial support for families and communities in the Wilcannia Forbes Diocese.
2002	House of Welcome Supporting refugees who have been granted temporary protection Visas and have no family or community links in their transition from detention into the community.
2001	Tanzania Building & furnishing classrooms in Tanzania, Africa.
2000	Bolivia Supporting Loreto sisters in a community near Riberalta in Bolivia offering medical supplies, teacher training, school support and food and clothing.
1999	Peru Raising funds for a community centre run by IBVM Sisters in Lima, Peru.