What lit your flame?
As we mark our 50th anniversary at CAFOD, it is a time to reflect on what we have achieved, and how we have fulfilled our mission, both as an organisation and as individuals. In that spirit of reflection, we are asking all staff, volunteers, supporters and other friends of CAFOD to look back over their lives and recall the moment when they were first drawn into the fight against poverty and injustice.
So please share with us your stories. Whatever age we are, whatever background we come from, and however different our stories are, we are united by our fire for justice. To tell us what lit your flame, please email: flame@cafod.org.uk or leave your own story on our blog or on our facebook page .
Pascale Palmer's story (CAFOD Media Team):
“In 1965 my family moved to Zambia to help set up a World Bank-funded school post independence. During their time as French teachers at Lundazi Secondary School my father made great friends with a priest from the Lumezi White Fathers Mission. Every spring Father Roy would hire a tractor and help the local smallholder farmers seed their fields, sometimes working for 24 hours at a stretch.
His dedication to the local community, with hands-on hard work, and the school and hospital he helped run at the Mission, and his great good humour, made up tales I heard again and again throughout my childhood. It was Father Roy’s commitment that inspired my dad to convert to Catholicism, and it was the many stories of Father Roy that made me think that to help others in just one of the ways that he had done would be a good thing.”
