Social contributions of Catholics in Ca Mau

12/21/2018

Ca Mau province is currently home to 32,000 Catholic followers with 23 Catholic communities.

As reported by the Catholic Solidarity Committee in Ca Mau province, Catholic followers in Ca Mau deanery contributed nearly fifteen billion VND to social charity programs for supporting the disadvantaged in 2018.

These charity programs helped building 167 charitable houses, digging 207 clean-water wells, constructing 6,000 meter of rural concrete roads and 25 rural bridges, presenting 40 wheelchairs, 549 bicycles, 530 scholarships and 13,800 gifts, providing medicines to 4,300 patients and rice to 700 elderly, and supporting seven heart surgeries, etc.

The Catholic deanery also proactively engaged in movements for new rural & urban development in the province.

Nguyên Hải