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Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. David Yen, SJ, Director of the Fu Jen Catholic University Service-Learning Center says that this year a group of students and teachers from the Fu Jen Catholic University have had a service experience working in the houses for the dying in Calcutta, India, which were founded by Blessed Mother Teresa. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, for the past several years, the Catholic University in Taiwan has been organizing a service trip every year, visiting such places as India, Mongolia, Cambodia, and other sites on the island of Taiwan, working with those most in need. This missionary experience of charity is aimed at helping university students to become people for others and working amongst others, “doing the little things with great love.”
The youth and their teachers take advantage of the vacation times (in the summer, Christmas, in the winter...) to offer volunteer service to those most in need. Among them are priests, religious, and laity, professors of Law, Psychology, Public Administration, Medicine...All, for nearly a week, become volunteers in the house founded by Blessed Mother Teresa: washing the dying, accompanying the handicapped, washing dishes, making clothing for the women of the poor house...and all feel they have received much more than they have given. They say that “just like all those who come here, we also understood what it means to be amidst angels.” (NZ) (Agenzia Fides 4/11/2009)
