Faith in Action
Christ the King Parish's Social Justice Group
Partner Organizations
Since 2000, the What If? Foundation has partnered with members of the Ti Plas Kazo community in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, to bring much-needed food and educational opportunities to impoverished children.
The What If? Foundation's vision has always been linked with the vision of the Ti Plas Kazo community to feed and educate their children. Grounded in mutual respect, trust, and the belief that taking small steps at a grassroots level is essential to lasting change, What If and its Haitian partners (called Na Rive) have worked together to provide life-giving services to children for the last 13 years.
Today thanks to the suport of donors, the What If? Foundation is providing the resources for : 6,000 meals/week, 194 school scholarships a year, an after-school program for 240 youth, a summer camp for 550 children.
For more info Click: WHAT IF?
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Jubilee USA
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Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 75 US organizations, 400 faith communities and 50 Jubilee global partners. Jubilee is building an economy that serves, protects and promotes participation of the most vulnerable. Jubilee has won critical global financial reforms and more than $130 billion in debt relief for the world's poorest people.Their efforts focus on Responsible lending and borrowing/ expanding debt relief, Tax Justice, Fair and transparent debt arbitration process, Reform of international finicial institiutionsand Establishing trade policies that promote the common good. www.jubileeusa.org.
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Shelter Inc/Monument Crisis Center
When it comes to meeting the basic needs of at-risk, homeless, and the working poor in Contra Costa County, Monument Crisis Center and Shelter Inc. are leading the way in serivce and doing incredible work in this county.
Monument Crisis serves low-income families and individuals in Contra Costa County by providing nutritious food, education, general assistance and referrals. Over the last year, with the help of hundreds of volunteers and donors, Monument Crisis center distributed a five day supply of food to over 12,000 individuals, thereby providing one million meals to those most at risk in contra Costa County. In addition to food service programs, Monument Crisis center advocates for at-risk families and individuals and strives to unite the community in a forward effort to alleviate poverty. For more info on Donating or Volunteering Click: Monument Crisis
Shelter Inc: Shelter Inc strives to realize a vision: re-building lives, one family at a time, by giving them a home, the skills and resources to live the life they deserve. Shelter inc has three main goals: preventing homelesness, ending the cycle of homelessness, providing affordable housing. for more info visit them Click: Shelter
Fair Trade Sales
Fair Trade is an organized social movement that aims to help producers in developing countries to make better trading conditions and promote sustainability. It advocates the payment of a higher price to exporters are well as higher social and enviormental standards.
Here at Christ the King we sell fair trade coffee in support of our Sister community in El Salvador, San Vincente. The programs we support are womens projects. You can promote the cause of Fair Trade by purchasing fair trade items at Mass, using fair trade at your own events/gatherings or by volunteering to sell items with us after mass.
For more information on the program we support in El Salvador click here:
Winter Nights
The Winter Nights Program provides a clean, safe,.and warm facility at night as well as a daytime services center during winter for homeless families with children and for homeless seniors. the Program will serve up to 30 persons at any given time. Congregations throughout central and east Contra Costa provide space, meals, and volunteers.
Christ the King will be hosting Winter Nights this year from April 6th- April 19th.
Online up signups will be live all of Lent starting Ash Wed. Feb 18th -Friday March 27th. During those dates click Serve to sign up to volunteer and Food to donate items!