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August 2020 Newsletter
The Tool Box of Community and Connectivity - Greetings all AUGUST 2020 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS & MISSIONARY SISTERS OF SERVICE NEWSLETTER 2020 SMALL GRANTS ANNOUNCED AN INVITATION FOOD FOR THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FUNDRAISING DINNERS Firstly thank you for your...
Prison ministry strives to give men and women a dignified new start
Port Pirie Diocese, South Australia Most prisoners are released from the Port Augusta and Port Lincoln Prisons and the Cadell Training Centre carrying little more than a plastic bag of personal belongings. But the volunteers from the Port Pirie Diocesan prison...
New friendships discovered as sisterhood events take off
Peak Hill, New South Wales Toni Clark thought she knew everyone in Peak Hill, but when she organised four Peak Hill ‘Sisterhood’ get-togethers in 2019 she forged friendships with locals she had never met, including one 90-year-old who she now calls her friend....
Creating new connections one stitch at a time
Clarendon Vale, Tasmania Liz Selkirk hopes relationships, as well as garments, will be created at the Clarendon Vale Neighbourhood Centre’s new sewing classes. The Buttons, Bobbins, Beginners and Beyond sewing project began in early November with support from Highways...
A great read!
A few of us in the Highways and Byways community have lately found ourselves all reading the same book! And it's being passed around to family and friends across the generations. What a great read! Victor Steffensen's Fire Country - How Indigenous Fire Management...
Seasonal workers invited into community to party and worship
Longford, Tasmania Longford locals didn’t wait for seasonal workers to discover how friendly they were. They went to the workers and invited them to a community welcome party, supported by Highways and Byways. The workers from the nearby berry farms came in droves,...
Free and willing to be part of the community
St Helens, Tasmania Tani Langoulant reckons the success of the Free2b Girls program, that she brought to the small Tasmanian coastal town of St Helens, is a team effort. The teenage girls who turn up each Wednesday to help set the agenda, local volunteers provide...
17 community organisations across NSW, SA, TAS and QLD granted funds from Highways and Byways
We are delighted to announce the recipients of our 2020 Small Grants Program. Congratulations to them all, especially for adapting projects to keep communities safe during Coronavirus times whilst still supporting people in need and nourishing our environment in...
Nothing Can Ever be the Same Again – COVID-19 and the Environment by Corrie Van Den Bosch
Governments around the world are anxious to get their countries back to normal. But what is ‘normal’? It is claimed during China’s lock-down over the virus, the resulting cleaner atmosphere saved more lives than the lock-down. When I went on an interfaith...
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