Summer Service Mission in Collaboration with Little Angels of Mary
June 2025 Sr. Martha Ann Kirk, Religious Studies,Dr. Monica Hernandez, Lecturer, Department of English, and Dr. Heather Barton-Weston, Associate Professor, Community Health Education, will lead the service mission program with local hosts Edwin Mendoza of Guatemala and Darlene Jasso, a UIW Com Arts graduate to Guatemala City and surrounding areas. This program offers students the opportunity to earn service-learning hours by assisting indigenous villagers through activities organized by the not-for-profit foundation, Little Angels of Mary. The mission program also included several cultural excursions, such as Antigua, a World Heritage City, Lake Atitlán (Panajachel), the ruins near Santa Apolonia, and much more! This 2025 mission continues the great work done in 2024. Please note that this program does not complement a UIW course. Interested students should email Sister Kirk at kirk@uiwtx.edu.
May 2024 Sr. Martha Ann Kirk, Professor of Religious Studies, and Dr. Beth Senne-Duff, Associate Professor of Nutrition, led a service mission program to Guatemala City and surrounding areas. This program offered students the opportunity to earn service-learning hours by assisting indigenous villagers through activities organized by the not-for-profit foundation, Little Angels of Mary.
May 2023 The mission program also included several cultural excursions, such as Antigua, a World Heritage City, Lake Atitlán (Panajachel), the ruins near Santa Apolonia, and much more!
To read Sister Martha's newsletters from the 2023 program, please click the volumes below.