Mt. St. Joseph Academy Women Raise Awareness
Senior women of Mount St. Joseph Academy’s Class of 2009 spent part of their weekend doing something a bit atypical for high school seniors on a Saturday night: they gathered to raise awareness about global poverty and disease. Caroline Johnston, an active and passionate ONE member, organized the meeting as a project for her women’s senior seminar.
The gathering of these young women reminded me of similar meetings held all over the developing world by women, disproportionately affected by poverty, who organize to lift their communities from extreme poverty. It also seemed very fitting that the project took place in the town of New Hope, PA because Caroline’s generation represents just that in the fight against global poverty: new hope in the great human rights challenge of their time.
-Lauren Conn
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