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The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S. [1] JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other ...
Homeboy Industries is a youth program founded in 1992 [1] by Father Greg Boyle following the work of the Christian base communities at Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. [2] [3] The program is intended to assist high-risk youth, former gang members and the recently incarcerated with a variety of free programs, such as mental ...
Los Angeles-area YMCA locations are offering free child care for children of first responders, essential workers and families who have been displaced, evacuated or who have otherwise experienced ...
This is a partial list of centres founded worldwide by the Society of Jesus which are directed primarily toward social and economic development for the poor and marginalized.
From preparing food for the houseless to volunteering in animal shelters or cleaning up our beaches, there are many ways to contribute to the City of Angels—and not just for the holidays but ...
At the conclusion of his theology studies, Boyle spent a year living and working with Christian base communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia. [4] Upon his return in 1986, he was appointed pastor of Dolores Mission Church, a Jesuit parish in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles that was then the poorest Catholic church in the city. [5]
Los Angeles College, the junior seminary of the archdiocese; Mount Carmel (Closed 1976) Our Lady Queen of Angels, Los Angeles (Closed 1982) Pater Noster, Los Angeles (Closed 1991) Pius X.Downey (merged with St. Mathias 1995) Notre Dame (Girls), Sunland (Closed 1960s) Queen of Angels Compton (Closed in 2002)
Kreutz founded the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines Foundation, Inc. (JVP) in 1980. The JVP was formed with the mission of assisting underserved communities in rural areas of the Philippines. Its members are composed of new college graduates and young professionals. [3] [8] [9] It is the longest-running domestic-volunteer-sending program in the ...