We need your help to bring as many young people from the Oceania region as we can to attend World Youth Day in Sydney.

We want as many young people as possible from our neighbours in Oceania to take up the invitation from Pope Benedict XVI and attend WYD08 in Sydney.

Hosted in Oceania for the first time, WYD08 may be the only opportunity for young people in our region to attend such a gathering.

We need Australian and New Zealand groups to become WYD08 host partners and help bring the neighbours over.

We also need groups throughout Oceania and the Pacific region to become WYD08 pilgrim partners and begin the journey to come to Sydney for World Youth Day in July 2008.

Role of Australia/New Zealand partner (host partner group)

Contact (using the form ) or respond to contact from a pilgrim partner group and foster a relationship directly to offer assistance for pilgrims to attend WYD08.

The nature and process of the aid offered and received will be established in each particular case within the context of the relationship. Some of the ways Host Partners might help include raising funds to get pilgrims to Sydney, providing warm clothing or hosting them while they're in Sydney.

Advise the WYD08 office of the existence and nature of the relationship and the size of the group expected by clicking here .

Role of overseas partner (pilgrim partner group)

Make contact with (through your local bishop), or respond to contact from, a local host partner group and foster a relationship directly for the purposes of receiving assistance for pilgrims to attend WYD08. The nature and process of the aid offered and received will be established in each particular case within the context of the twinning relationship.

Pilgrim Partner Countries

Tell us your news

Have you formed a partnership? Any good news to report? Need any help? Please let the WYD08 office know. To help us administer the Pilgrim Partnership Support Program send us news here .