Quan Cai > Global Concerns Action Team (GCAT)

Stephen Codrington

The Global Concerns Action Team (GCAT) is a service group which aims to offer active support to people in genuine need in other places. The focus is on action – doing something – rather than being yet another forum for discussions. This group aims to take action that makes a positive difference to help people in other places who are disadvantaged by issues that are significant on a global scale. All GCAT projects involve either expressing compassion through action for those who are very poor or disadvantaged on the spectrum of global wealth or helping people who are being hurt directly by global environmental issues. The Team hopes to organize fund raising to help people and to recruit voluntary labour to help with certain projects, such as during Project Week, etc. It is intended that financial assistance be given to support the poorest communities and most needy families, not usually as a straight financial handout but in a form that provides a basis to ensure ongoing benefits. In this way, GCAT projects aim to empower recipients, to help enable them take control of their lives. Just as importantly, Global Concerns aims to develop a deep sense of lifelong responsibility within the students throughout the College, so that they will always perceive these issues as being important and grow into competent, concerned, compassionate and caring citizens who will want to take action to support those less fortunate than themselves.