Center for Advocacy and Outreach
We welcome you to Columban mission in a variety of ways, including internships, volunteerism and exposure trips.Be transformed by living with and serving people and communities who are most vulnerable to social, economic and environmental injustices. Join us for five days, five months or a lifetime. Please contact Amy Woolam Echeverria for more information about any of our CCAO missions.
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Volunteer Blog
Sky: Certainty of Change
In my eight months of volunteering at the Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach, I have met, befriended, lived with, worked with, laughed with, intellectually and lightheartedly argued with, broke bread with, explored with, shared with, and sadly parted ways with more people an emotionally attached individual such as myself can handle. And now my [...]
Lee: Charity and justice should be engaged within everyone
When I read the daily gospel, I try to see in Jesus the Person who showed us what perfect justice is. He was always concerned about the poor and the marginalized. In his teaching, he tried consistently to open our eyes and hearts to the injustice and inequality in our world. He often associated with [...]
Katherine: A new baby, and living apart
My brother and sister in law had a baby 2 weeks ago. As he is the first baby in my immediate family, I had an understandably overzealous excitement for his coming. Because most of my family lives in Chicago, and my time of service in D.C. is coming to a close in just over a [...]
Carlo: What we don’t want to see because of fear
There are many things in the world that we can not see. However, there are also many things that we do not want to see.
