Entries should be sent to your CCHD diocesan office . The contest also enjoys the support of the National Catholic Education Association and the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry. In order to promote creative entries, we encourage you to spend some class or program time with your students exploring Catholic social teaching, the root causes of economic poverty, and ways in which the Catholic Campaign for Human Development works to address those issues. Through CCHD, the Catholic community in the United States addresses the root causes of poverty by empowering low income people to work together to reverse the root causes of poverty. The poor have not chosen poverty.
Poverty is the result of circumstances over which the poor themselves have little or no control.
We hope through CCHD to impress these facts on the non-poor and to effect in them a conversion of heart, a growth in compassion and sensitivity to the needs of their brothers and sisters in want.