Bree Gallicchio served with Border Servant Corps, a CVN-AmeriCorps program that provides support staff for established social service agencies that serve the marginalized population of Las Cruces, N.M., Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, in particular. Originally from Branchburg, NJ, Gallicchio studied Spanish and Education at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD. In […]

Lilla Hassan, Loretto Volunteer Program AmeriCorps Service Site: For the Love of Children (FLOC)   When you are young, everyone asks you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My answer was a doctor. The person who I look up to as one of the most virtuous beings in my life is […]

By Fr. Frank Donio, S.A.C., Catholic Apostolate Center Ever consider yourself an apostle? Last year, the 42 year-old Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, returned to Broadway for another run. The Apostles reflectively sing during the Last Supper, “Always hoped that I’d be an apostle, knew that I would make it if I tried,” […]

                In the town of Weslaco, TX, just 11 miles from the Mexican border,  54% of pregnant women lack access to adequate prenatal care.  Catholic Volunteer Network AmeriCorps Members are serving there with The Holy Family Birth Center to make quality care more accessible for the women and […]

  I didn’t know what I was getting myself into a year ago when I quit my good paying job and left my childhood house to go to East Harlem and serve for a year as an AmeriCorps member. My experience has taught me to get out of my comfort zone, to show God’s love […]