Students Serve as Vincentian Lay Missionaries in Africa

November 15, 2012

Two St. John’s University students — Raelynne Lee ’11C, enrolled in the M.A. in Global Development program, and Nicholas Macri ’11TCB — traveled to Ethiopia and Kenya this past summer as Vincentian Lay Missionaries (VLM).

A program based in the United States, the VLM are men and women who commit to serving those in need in Kenya and Ethiopia with the Daughters of Charity for a period of four to six weeks.

In addition to the students, four women served in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia; six women and one man volunteered in three different sites in Kenya. In July, the group taught English to children in Ethiopia. In August, Lee and Macri traveled to Kenya to help organize camps for local children.

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