Karen de Sousa, Board Member of WUCWO and representative of the Catholic Women's League of Australia, recently spoke to The Southern Cross about her involvement in our global #WUCWOPlantingHope campaign. In the article, she explains how this initiative, inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’, aims to promote integral ecology by encouraging each of WUCWO’s 8 million members—and their communities—to plant one tree per year for the next four years. 

You can read the full article here: https://thesoutherncross.org.au/people/2025/06/05/caritas-kaz-planting-seeds-of-hope/

Don’t forget to register your tree for the #WUCWOPlantingHope campaign.