Come join us on October 5 Workshop – For our Common Home: A future for the Amazon, a future for all. We will be at St Anne’s Parish Centre, 859 Barnardo Ave., Peterborough, Ontario on Saturday Oct. 5, starting with Registration at 9:30 a.m.
Presentation at 10:00 a.m., lunch will be provided. Please email kstaunton@cogeco.ca if you plan to attend.
Learn about the vital role the Amazon plays for the entire planet:
The Amazon produces 20% of the oxygen we breathe It is a rich, complex biome that hosts up to a third of the world’s biodiversity Home to 30 million people including some 380 indigenous groups. We must all care For our Common Home.
To find out more about Development & Peace in Lindsay please contact Dorothy Carroll at 705-324-7750
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Development and Peace (The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace) is the official international development organization of the Catholic Church in Canada and the Canadian member of Caritas Internationalis. Development and Peace is a membership led organization supported by parish collections, individual donations and government grants, principally from the Canadian International Development Agency.
Our mission is to support partners in the Global South who promote alternatives to unfair social, political and economic structures, and educate the Canadian population about the causes of poverty and mobilize Canadians towards actions for change. In the struggle for human dignity, the organization forms alliances with northern and southern groups working for social change. It also supports women in their search for social and economic justice.