SUMMER LASALLIAN SERVICE
During three weeks this Summer some 30 students and 6 faculty members left Rhode Island to be engaged in service activities.
Over the Summer months a number of La Salle Academy students and faculty spent some of their vacation in service projects. A week after the end of school, a group of students accompanied by Sophomore Dean Joanna Doyle and former Campus Ministry Director Matt Daly traveled to Florida and assisted in the work of the Centro La Salle, Lasallian Educational Center in Homestead. This Center serves the families of migrant workers. Students assisted with the Summer Camp program—providing tutoring, leading fun activities, and even going on a trip to see the movie Finding Dory! La Salle students also had the opportunity of meeting fellow Lasallians from a secondary school in Mexico who were volunteering at Centro La Salle.
Five Lasallian Youth members, along with teachers Mary Misiaszek and Tim Donovan, traveled to Niagara University in upstate New York to attend the District of Eastern North America (DENA) Lasallian Youth Summer Assembly on the theme “Let Mercy Flow.” Students from eleven District high school ministries and a Lasallian high school from Rome, Italy, took part in the experience of service, prayer and faith-serving, and the building of community. Each high school group highlighted an experience their Lasallian Youth group had been engaged in during the year. La Salle’s representatives presented on the homeless sleep-out, an annual March event.
At the end of July a group of La Salle students, accompanied by teachers Sarah Allen and Jeff Allard, joined with students from three other DENA high schools, for a week of service in Camden, NJ. The service activities exposed students to the challenges and issues confronting many in America's inner cities, and the prayer and discussion that occurred each day allowed the participants to reflect on how their talents can be used in response to the needs of others.
La Salle Academy is proud of and grateful to the young women and men (as well as the teachers who joined them) who reached out to others and whose lives were ultimately changed after the experiences.
La Salle Academy is a high school rich in history and grounded in the person and teachings of Jesus and the Catholic faith, which are core to the school's life and culture. The De La Salle Middle School provides a strong holistic foundation for students to transition into high school. The high school and middle school provide students of diverse ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds, a community to foster growth in the tradition of St. John Baptist de La Salle’s ideals of faith, service, and community.
