"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
~Mother Teresa
Welcome to the Volunteer
Opportunity Coordination Station!
Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen.
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Books for the Barrios provides American youths the opportunity to help their fellow classmates in the third world break the cycle of illiteracy and poverty. Over 100,000 children have showed compassion and love for their counterparts overseas. Over twelve million books and educational items have been gathered, transported, and distributed to deprived and war torn towns.
"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
~Martin Luther King Jr.