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Aid for Women
Aid for Women helps thousands of women each year in the Chicago metropolitan area who find themselves facing unexpected pregnancies. Each woman is provided with the emotional, practical and spiritual support that she needs to choose life for her unborn baby and to provide a better future for her and her child.
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Chicago, Cicero, Des Plaines, Flossmoor, Waukegan, Wheeling, Rockford, Carbondale Illinois.
Annunciation House
To provide an experience of service, accompaniment and solidarity with the poor in the border communities of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. The work is focused to responding to the undocumented, immigrants, and refugees. The ministry consists in the sharing of one's life through the operation of several houses of hospitality; advocacy on behalf of the poor in migration; and awareness and immersion experiences. The hospitality offered in several large houses includes everything from food, shelter, clothing and social needs to networking with immigration asylum counselors and lawyers. Annunciation House is sustained by individual contributions and donations, and by an all-volunteer staff. For the volunteers, service at Annunciation House is a way of being and living at a particular time in one's life. The work is your life and the living is your work. It is important for volunteers to realize that there must be an openness to doing whatever there is to be done and serving wherever one is needed.
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El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico
Bethlehem Farm
Bethlehem Farm is a Catholic community in Appalachia that transforms lives through service with the local community and the teaching of sustainable practices. We invite volunteers to join us in living the Gospel cornerstones of service, prayer, simplicity, and community.
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Summers County, West Virginia and surrounding counties. Appalachia.
Casa Juan Diego
Volunteers, both men and women, work with immigrants and refugees to provide shelter, food, transportation, medical and dental services, and English classes. Being at Casa Juan Diego is similar to being in Latin America. Most guests speak only Spanish, although refugees from other countries are received as well. Volunteers are encouraged to respond as a community to the needs of the refugees that come to Casa Juan Diego as well as the undocumented who live in Houston. The work is gratifying. The day begins with daily readings and we have weekly clarification of thought meetings and Mass.
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Houston, TX
Christian Appalachian Project
Based in Eastern Kentucky, Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) strives to meet both the immediate needs of persons living in poverty and empower residents to achieve long-term goals. CAP serves people in need (children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities) in Eastern Kentucky. CAP Volunteers commit to the pillars of Service, Community, and Spirituality and/or personal reflection. CAP offers a strong cultural experience, an assortment of service placements, an interdenominational Christian environment, and a flexible time commitment.
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Appalachian region of Eastern Kentucky.
Glenmary Volunteer Program
The Glenmary Volunteer program at Joppa Mountain, Tennessee is a retreat-like, mission immersion program for high school, college-age and adult volunteer groups to experience the mission and ministry of the Glenmary Home Missioners. Our mission is to give participants a firsthand experience of missionary service. Each week-long session is a retreat-like mission immersion blending the values of service, culture, prayer, reflection and sharing in an environment of simple living. It is the goal of the program to connect people with God, help them find Christ in others, and teach them to serve others first and put themselves second. Glenmary's long-term volunteers act as a catalyst to volunteer groups serving with Glenmary's Group Volunteer Program on Joppa Mountain and to those living in Tennessee's Grainger and Union counties. They not only help serve the needs of the materially needy living in these counties, but also the needs of the volunteers serving at Joppa Mountain.
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Grainger and Union Counties in Tennessee
In My Shoes
The mission of In My Shoes is to provide a safe, welcoming community for pregnant women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
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Dallas, Texas
Maggie's Place
Maggie’s Place provides safe housing and a nurturing community for pregnant and parenting women experiencing homelessness, empowering them to thrive throughout their lifetime. Americorps members live in the homes alongside moms and teammates sharing meals, doing chores, celebrating accomplishments, and working through hard things together. Members take initiative in a variety of situations that range from a mom going into labor, to roommate conflicts, to showing hospitality to visitors and new community members. They create a safe, welcoming, home-like environment for the moms so moms can focus on achieving their goals.
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Greater Phoenix, AZ Metropolitan Area
Mercy Volunteer Corps
In partnership with the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, members of Mercy Volunteer Corps (MVC) enter into relationship with people who are experiencing injustices, in any form. In a spirit of mutuality, volunteers cultivate mercy and justice in the world by embracing compassionate service, social justice, spiritual growth, and a simple lifestyle in community.
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Continental United States and Guyana, South America.
Missionary Cenacle Volunteers
To help Catholics and others become missionaries in the providence of daily life by growing spiritually while in service to the poor, abandoned and those at risk of losing their faith.
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Across the continental USA, Puerto Rico and Mexico (for those fluent in Spanish).
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