Below is an excerpt from a letter to volunteers from the Executive Board and Permanent Committee, Alicia, Aliette, Anne, Babeth, Gayle, Maru, Selina, Sumaia, Laurence and Tayde:

We invite you to renew your commitment to serve God through contact with people who are living in poverty.

Being an AIC volunteer means getting out of our comfort zone to enter someone else’s world, the world of those who live on the peripheries where there is another reality, set of values, culture and means of religious expression.  As such, being an AIC volunteer means going where the people in need are and adapting to their reality.  It’s not about giving what we think they need, but about first listening to how they feel, what they’re thinking and what they require, so that we can support them in the process of discovering the strengths that each of us has and so be able to achieve our dream of building a world of love, peace and justice.

We hope that each country will celebrate this great accomplishment with activities to deepen our charism and communicate it to others, as well as by reflecting profoundly about how we can do our work better, always hand in hand with our most vulnerable brothers and sisters.

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