Success Stories

El Paso & Tucson: Exploring the complex realities of immigration on both sides of the wall.

Almost everyone knows about “the wall,” a physical barricade along parts of the southern USA border with Mexico. An immersion experience provides opportunities to witness firsthand the reality of the wall and study its impact on people, places, and politics.  The proverb “Good fences make…

Egypt: “Centre De Vie” Provides Specialized Training For Challenged Youth to have a productive, independent life.

The “Centre de Vie” (Center for Life) at the Collège St. Marc in Alexandria provides a wide array of specialized programs to address the unique needs of emotionally, physically, and mentally challenged youth. Graduates emerge with the capacity to be well-integrated into society. Often enough, when…

Ethiopia: Building a New Generation of Talented Professionals.

Ethiopia will need thousands of more doctors and engineers by 2035 when it becomes one of the most populous countries in the world. To meet this professional need, a new university Is being constructed in Addis Ababa, which is already training a bright new generation in…

Lebanon: Aide to Syrian Refugee Children

This “Fratelli Project” provides important auxiliary educational services to refugee Syrian children enabling them to access and succeed in Lebanese schools.  The Fratelli Project is a cooperative program between the Marist and the De La Salle Christian Brothers to educationally serve displaced Syrian refugee children…

Mozambique: Recovery is being assisted through a global Lasallian response. 

Following the worst storm in the southern hemisphere’s recorded meteorological history, one of the poorest African countries struggles to recover from Cyclone Idai. With hundreds of lives lost, thousands of homes destroyed, and 1.77 million acres of crops at the beginning of the main harvest season destroyed by Cyclone…