A children’s home in Jamaica will benefit following an appeal at Llandaff Cathedral.
Parishioners raised £5,500 in this year’s Lent Appeal for the Wortley Home in Kingston which looks after up to 25 children who are victims of the island’s widespread poverty and crime.
They were asked to help by the Bishop of Kingston, the Right Reverend Robert Thompson. The Wortley Home has been open for more than100 years and since 1984 has been managed as an Outreach Project by St. Jude’s Church in Stony Hill. It looks after children, ranging from age eight to 17, most of whom come through both the court systems and the Child Development Agency.
The Lent Appeal builds on the success of the Cathedral’s efforts in 2009 when more than £35,000 was raised for various outreach projects. The most noteable of these was the Harvest Appeal to buy pigs for a farming community in Ghana. Parishioners raised £5,700 for a project run by a St Matthew’s Church in Zagyuri, in the Tamale region to build a piggery. A pig house has since been built and a boar and four sows have been bought. The farm will provide income for the community of 3,000 people who live in poverty as well as food. The project is supported by USPG/ Anglicans in World Mission.
The Dean of Llandaff, John Lewis, said, “We thank God for the generosity of so many in our Christian community to support those in other Christian communities by prayer and purse. Such projects as the pig farm and the children’s home help us to focus our efforts.”
