Skip to content
The Catholic Leader
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
The Catholic Leader
No Result
View All Result
Home News

East Timorese Catholics take two carloads of donations to workers who lost everything in Bundaberg fire

byPeter Bugden
17 August 2020
Reading Time: 2 mins read
AA

Support: Member of East Timorese Catholic family in Brisbane reached out to help people from their homeland who lost their possessions in a recent Bundaberg fire.

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
Support: Member of East Timorese Catholic family in Brisbane reached out to help people from their homeland who lost their possessions in a recent Bundaberg fire.

BRISBANE’S East Timorese Catholic Community has reached out to help people from their homeland who lost their possessions in a recent Bundaberg fire.

Lita Barreto, who is secretary and treasurer of the Brisbane group, and fellow community members drove to Bundaberg two weekends ago in two cars loaded with donations for the survivors of the fire.

The Timorese seasonal workers were among more than 60 people who escaped the fire that engulfed the Spotted Dog Tavern and Federal Backpackers Hostel.

The temporary visa holders remain stranded in Australia because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.

When Ms Barreto heard of their plight she immediately sent out a call to her community members on social media asking for help and there was a quick response.

“A few families donated food, clothes and some blankets, as well as money,” she said.

“The people who donated were saying ‘We know how it feels to have nothing’.

“So on (the following) Saturday me and a group of friends we took the donations to Bundaberg.”

Apart from the donated goods, the group handed over $700 in cash, including $500 given by one family.

“Plus we took food, clothes, blankets, toiletries, and all the basic necessities for them,” Ms Barreto said.

Related Stories

Family of 11 escapes house fire by the grace of God

Share God’s love, don’t just lament lack of faith, Pope Francis says

Queensland budget gives hope to people in housing crisis

“They thanked us a lot.

“They were just so grateful, very grateful.”

The Timorese workers included eight men and two women of varying ages.

“They came from Timor to Melbourne to work but because of COVID-19 they moved to Queensland and they went to Bundaberg,” Ms Barreto said.

“They had been in Bundaberg only two weeks when the place where they were staying burned down.

“They’re still stuck but they have a place to stay (and) they’re also very grateful to the community there.

“The Bundaberg community has helped them.

“They’re stuck in Australia because of COVID-19 but the good thing is that they have a job.

“They’re still working.”

ShareTweet
Previous Post

Canberra author uses fiction to evangelise Church’s teaching on marriage

Next Post

ACU’s new leader created study following thousands of Queenslanders since they were 12

Peter Bugden

Related Posts

Family of 11 escapes house fire by the grace of God
News

Family of 11 escapes house fire by the grace of God

25 December 2021
Share God’s love, don’t just lament lack of faith, Pope Francis says
Vatican

Share God’s love, don’t just lament lack of faith, Pope Francis says

24 September 2021
Hope: St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland chief executive officer Kevin Mercer said crisis accommodation and homelessness support services “have been put under great strain by the worsening affordable housing shortage”.
QLD

Queensland budget gives hope to people in housing crisis

16 June 2021
Next Post

ACU's new leader created study following thousands of Queenslanders since they were 12

Job at inner city parish inspires property manager to become Catholic

Centacare is celebrating the resiliency of older Australians this Seniors Week

Popular News

  • Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

    Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Confraternity Carnival ready for a full return in Mackay next week

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Three Queensland deacons preparing for priestly ordinations in the next week

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Search our job finder
No Result
View All Result

Latest News

Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech
Family

Abdallah family deliver powerful Vatican speech

by Guest Contributor
27 June 2022
0

By Agencies including CNS, Vatican News and staff writers DANNY and Leila Abdallah used a speech during...

Look to the future, not the past, pope tells families

Look to the future, not the past, pope tells families

27 June 2022
US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

US states start banning abortion following historic Supreme Court ruling

27 June 2022

Why you should go on a pilgrimage — more than once

25 June 2022
Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

Celebration marks Sister Angela Mary’s 75 years’ service to Mater and Queensland

25 June 2022

Never miss a story. Sign up to the Weekly Round-Up
eNewsletter now to receive headlines directly in your email.

Sign up to eNews
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Jobs
  • Subscribe

The Catholic Leader is an Australian award-winning Catholic newspaper that has been published by the Archdiocese of Brisbane since 1929. Our journalism seeks to provide a full, accurate and balanced Catholic perspective of local, national and international news while upholding the dignity of the human person.

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader
Accessibility Information | Privacy Policy | Archdiocese of Brisbane

The Catholic Leader acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of this country and especially acknowledge the traditional owners on whose lands we live and work throughout the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader

0
    0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyChoose another Subscription
    Continue Shopping