Caritas Challenge

The Caritas Challenge is an annual event for schools and youth groups around New Zealand to demonstrate solidarity with those living with poverty or injustice.

In 2018, more than 8,000 young people took part in the Caritas Challenge and raised more than $50,000 to support the women's livelihood organization, Hamahon Feto Timor (HAFOTI) that Caritas partners with in Timor Leste.

Resources for 2019 are now available and registrations are open for next year's adventure.

This nationwide event offers hands-on experiences that are fun and informative to raise funds for South Sudan in 2019.

During the Challenge, youth are encouraged to undertake an activity for up to 24 hours that brings them closer to the plight of more than four million South Sudanese who have been displaced from their homes due to ongoing conflict and food insecurity.

For more information, please contact Michael Stewart

See photos from around the country of groups that took on the Caritas Challenge in 2018:

Take up the Challenge!

Move It, Live It, Sweat It, Stop It, or create your own 24-hour Challenge. Build solidarity with those living with poverty or injustice, through hands-on experiences that are fun and informative, while you raise funds.

Who you will help

Your support and participation in the Caritas Challenge will enable us to continue working in South Sudan with our partners Caritas South Sudan and other Caritas agencies to provide emergency supplies to those most affected throughout the country. This emergency response includes distribution of food supplies, shelter and household items, seeds and tools, as well as promoting peacebuilding through workshops and continued dialogue.

Past challenges

Caritas would like to say a huge thank you to all who participated in the 2018 Caritas Challenge, it was a great event and more than 70 groups took part with over 10,500 individuals taking on the Challenge.