Patners in faith, water for southern Sudan

Jack Skvorak and Frances Grillo are members of two different Catholic parishes, one suburban, one city. Brought together by a shared commitment to Water for Sudan, they teamed up to do something that would expand their faith-communities’ local charitable giving to include a humanitarian cause beyond their immediate area, providing water in the war-torn southern Sudan.

With the help of fellow parishoners, they organized a series of fund-raising activities for Water for Sudan. As Frances says, “It was almost effortless!” Through a number of small, easy-to-do, and imaginative efforts the parish partners in faith raised over $17,000. That kind of partnership demonstrates, as the saying goes, how to “think globally and act locally.”