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Irma serves in Hispanic ministry at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Ill.

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Sister Community Committee for Guatemala Gives Trip Report

By Irma Avila SL / March 1, 2018 /

A teacher holding hands with a young girl in a school uniform. The young girl is a line leader of the line of her classmates headed inside from the playground.

On Jan. 22, Mary Ann McGivern, Connie Newton and I went to La Escuela Sagrada Familia – Zona 10 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. During our visit, we shared the reality…

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Sister Community Committee for Guatemala Gives Trip Report

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