A Donegal women, who in her eighties, has raised more than €1,000 for Christian Aid Ireland’s work helping vulnerable people around the world.
Judith Hinchliff, a parishioner at St John’s Church of Ireland in Rossnowlagh, held a coffee morning fundraiser last month at her church hall.
Her fellow parishioners got behind her and baked buns and served tea and coffee, assisted by members of St Anne’s in Ballyshannon and Drumholm Parish Church in Ballintra.
Almost 50 visitors came to support her efforts for this good cause and donated to support it.
Among those supporting the event were members of the Rossnowlagh Ramblers Walking Club, as well as members of the religious community of the nearby Franciscan Friary wearing their signature long, brown robes.
Judith holds her coffee morning annually – despite being in constant pain as she waits for hip replacement surgery.
Her fundraiser was held to mark Christian Aid Week (12-18 May) which began in the 1950s and is thought to be Ireland’s longest-running fundraising campaign.
Now aged in her mid-80s, the former Anglican nun whose twenty years of service with the Yorkshire-based Order of the Holy Paraclete included spells nursing in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe and doing pastoral work in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She left the order in 1983 and later married, settling with her husband in Donegal where she has lived since 1988.
The charity’s Chief Executive Rosamond Bennett thanked Judith and the parishioners of the three churches, as well as everyone who donated so generously: “Every year during Christian Aid Week, people across Ireland raise funds, act and pray for their global neighbours in a celebration of hope for a fairer world. Christian Aid Week brings people together to put our faith into action. Every prayer, every gift, every action makes a difference.”
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