children

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  Things You Can Do to Help Migrants and Asylees in Detention on the U.S.-Mexico Border

  June 28, 2019

  Every day we learn more about the appalling conditions facing children, women, and men in detention centers along our southern border. The situation is unconscionable. If you are like me, you might feel overwhelmed and paralyzed by the images of children and adults housed in overcrowded filthy conditions, conditions that fail to respect their dignity […]

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  Christmas Pajama Collection 2018 for Wedgewood Great Success

  January 15, 2019

  The Christmas Pajama Collection project for Wedgewood in Grand Rapids was a GREAT success, reported Dominican Associate Terri Sierzant. “Combined, you donated 232 pairs of pajamas to the children at Wedgwood. That means every child in all the residential homes, and Manasseh Project Outreach and the Autism Center received a pair of pajamas. Plus there were extra […]

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  Called to Protect the Children of the World

  June 12, 2018

  We recognize, as a moral obligation, the need to protect children fleeing violence or oppression in their homelands. We commit ourselves to act as their advocates in local, national, and international communities. — Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids Corporate Stance on Unaccompanied Children on the Border (2014) In 2014, we pledged our commitment to immigrant children and […]