Supporter Spring 2024
Meet Meagan Schwarz Hope Partner
Tell us about yourself and what inspired you to start supporting AnglicareSA. I’ve been involved with the Anglican Church for more than 20 years and worked for the AnglicareSA equivalent in Papua New Guinea for a few years. I was brought up in a family that believed in giving back to the community and as a young person was involved in volunteering and fundraising for various charities. Once I left university and got a job, I had less time to volunteer so turned to donations to continue to give back. AnglicareSA was a natural fit once I moved to Adelaide in 2016.
What specific aspect of our cause or mission resonates with you the most? Where do I start? Your emergency assistance program is a lifeline to people in need – I can only imagine how hard it must be for people to ask for help, but your staff and volunteers treat them with dignity and respect. Your housing program provides a foundation upon which people can build a new life, I know the blessing of a stable home environment and I pray that blessing for everyone. I could go on! Are there any upcoming projects or initiatives for AnglicareSA that you are particularly excited about? All of them! But if I had to choose, then it’s work you’re doing for young people leaving care and Believe Housing. The solar panel project is exciting too.
Tell us about your philanthropy journey and what is important to you about regularly donating. My philanthropy journey started as a young Girl Guide and at school – selling raffle tickets and sausages at fetes and collecting cans. Then, ever since I got my first job, I’ve been supporting not-for-profits that share the same vision of wanting to see people everywhere experience life in all its fullness. My faith is also a big motivator – it’s a discipline, a way of being that I try to cultivate, an attitude of generosity with my time, talents, and treasures. I also think it’s important to model generosity to my daughter. We talk about how we have a responsibility to use what we have been given to make the world a better place for everyone, not just ourselves.
Hope Partner Meagan and her daughter
What impact in the community do you hope to see from your gift? My prayer is that my small gift can support those programs that don’t receive government funding but are doing important work in our community. I pray that the participants of these programs know that they aren’t alone and that with AnglicareSA they can find their path to a better life. We don’t talk about hope enough, or it’s spoken of in a wishful thinking kind of way. Hope is real and it’s what sustains us through the most difficult times. So being a Hope Partner allows me to share the hope I have in a better future in real and practical ways with people across our city and state.
2024 Christmas Hamper and Toy Drive If you’d like to donate items to help fulfil more than 1,000 hampers and deliver more than 2,000 toys for our AnglicareSA customers in need this Christmas, please register via this QR code to receive updates on this event:
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