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Celebration and understanding: working with the developmentally disabled

Santa Clara University - CA, California
President: PAUL LOCATELLI, S.J.

Part of developing a relationship in service is understanding where the people you are working with live. Every week, ten students at Santa Clara University in California work with residents of Agnus, a center for people who are developmentally disabled. Once a year, students bring the residents onto campus for a day of carnival games followed by a special Mass service. The exchange broadens the understanding of both the group of Santa Clara students and center residents about where the other comes from. At the same time, the event raises awareness and understanding on campus.


From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy

We in the Pacific would not have come this far in the way of formalizing community service had it not been for Hawaii Pacific Islands Campus Compact and its director and staff."

-Kauai Community College, University of Hawaii

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