Catholic Campaign for Human Development

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The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) was created by the bishops in the United States in 1969 to break the cycle of poverty in the United States.  CCHD has a twofold mandate:  to fund low-income controlled projects that will break the cycle of poverty, and to educate Catholics about the root causes of poverty within the context of Catholic Social Teaching.

The annual campaign occurs the weekend before Thanksgiving.  Seventy-five percent of the money collected is sent to the national office to fund two kinds of national grants:  Community Organizing and Economic Development Program.  The remaining twenty-five percent is used to fund local grants.

Successful local grant applications are also in compliance with the mandates of CCHD.  Both levels of grants are evaluated by the local five-member  CCHD committee.

 

For more information or to become a member of the local CCHD committee, please contact CCHD Diocesan Director Germaine Kirk at 419-244-6711, ext. 225 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

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News and Events

 

CCHD Multi Media Youth Arts Contest

The CCHD Multi-Media Youth Arts Contest is an opportunity for schools and parishes to engage young people grades 7-12 in learning about the root causes of poverty; CCHD’s support for groups of empowered, low-income people working to address these causes; and Catholic social teaching’s call for Catholics to support such efforts through both charitable works and social justice. The CCHD Multi-Media Youth Arts Contest is a tool to help engage entire schools and parishes in awareness about poverty and our faith repsonse.

The 2012 contest information and materials are available at http://www.usccb.org/cchd/contestmaterials.shtml

 

 
  		 

Stories of Hope

Community Supports Miriam House

Norwalk angels do ‘something good’ for Charities’ Miriam House families. 

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It’s hard to get the whole story because Katie Barnes is so modest, so unassuming, about the good work she does.

“I don’t do anything so special,” she says, “There are a lot of other people – a lot of other people – who help. There are a lot of generous people here in Norwalk.”

There’s no doubt about that.

“We’ve kind of adopted Miriam House,” Barnes says, speaking of the Catholic Charities shelter for mothers and children located in Norwalk. “It was back around Thanksgiving of 2009 that we really started getting involved.”

With Katie Barnes, it’s always “we,” never “I.”

“It humbles you to be helping those people at Miriam House. You find out they’re not as different as you thought; they’re just like the rest of us.

“You never know about life. Any one of us could be living there tomorrow.”

If we are, it will be good to know we have friends like Katie Barnes and the rest of the Norwalk angels to help us.