High Schools Giving Back: Depaul Cristo Rey, Mount Notre Dame, St. Xavier & St. Ursula Academy
Assistant Principal Kerrie Katsetos and Spanish Teacher Michael Delaney accompanied five students to Nazareth Farm in rural West Virginia over the summer. Nazareth Farm is a Catholic community that transforms lives through a service retreat experience.
The DPCR group worked with students from other schools on repairs to homes in the community.
Pictured from left are Delaney, Jarren Morrow ’19, Brandolyn Wilson ’19, Cameron Wallace ’19, Heidi Cook ’19, Katsetos, and Jada Harris ’19.
Ten Mount Notre Dame students and two chaperones participated in new experience this summer — the rooted + Grounded Cincinnati Service Sampler trip. Participants stayed at Mt. St. Joseph University and worked at various service sites throughout the five-day service retreat. Activities and reflection experiences were tied to their foundress, St. Julie Billiart, through her quotes, writings and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who carry on her work today.
Charlie Williams and John Sonnefeld were among the students who participated in mission trips to places like Wheeling, W.Va.. While working at sites such as gardens and soup kitchens, students learned how the coal industry affects the lives of those living in the one of the poorest U.S. states.
During a June mission trip, students from St. Ursula Academy did rehab and renovation work, building bunk beds and outhouses for families on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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