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Sister Maggie has a mission Curtis Long is a photography enthusiast and owner of ideaPort, a website development and maintenance company, which manages VocationNetwork. org and NRVC. net among other sites. Carol Schuck Scheiber is managing editor of VISION and editor of HORIZON.
ALEJANDRA CANDIA Tapia (top right) used to get school help from the mission. Now a college student, she serves as a volunteer, on this day helping children write book reports.
Photos by Curtis Long Text by Carol Schuck Scheiber
Sister Maggie Slowick, O.S.F. has been listening to poor families in Cuernavaca, Mexico for almost two decades. When they asked for help with their kids’ schoolwork, she started a tutoring program and never looked back.
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ISTER MAGGIE SLOWICK, O.S.F. never meant to stay in Mexico, much less found a ministry for desperately poor children there. Yet nearly two decades after Slowick came for summer Spanish lessons in Cuernavaca, Mexico she remains, orchestrating a small outreach effort that aims to break the cycle of poverty by helping impoverished children succeed in school. The Cuernavaca Children’s Mission that she runs gives intensive help to roughly 80 children and their families each year, providing tutoring, medicine, school fees, a library, adult literacy classes, and other personalized aid. Thousands of children
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