Catholic Mission–Fr Brian Lucas–Soctober (October is World Mission Month, and during October many schools engage in this October initiative. They'll kick goals for poverty by raising funds to help the mission churches. One initiative is called Soctober. It started with the idea of socking it to poverty. It involves young people making what's called a sock ball. They take plastic bags and socks and old clothes and things that are otherwise going to be thrown in the rubbish tip and we teach them the technique of binding them all up with string to make the sort of soccer ball that many young people around the world use in circumstances where they don't have the money for the fancy soccer ball we would buy from a sports good store.)