LOVE Camden
- Dates: March 7 to March 9, 2025
About DeSales Service Works: Service immersion trips offer people of all ages the opportunity to get away, reflect, pray and serve people in need. All trip themes are rooted in the core teaching of St. Francis de Sales and involve direct service, facilitated reflection, presentations on Catholic social teaching, and prayer. Volunteers come to do much-needed, practical service in a very poor community. They serve, pray, reflect, and recreate while living in the DSW community.
About North Camden: In a real sense, every setting is a place for service, but a place like Camden provides particularly clear service opportunities. The city was listed recently as the third poorest city of its size in the US. Like so many American urban neighborhoods, Camden is characterized by hard edges, constrained horizons, homelessness, drugs, and disorder. The service immersion trips take place in a very urban place; however, the DSW house is located in a lively, immigrant neighborhood in Camden on a block with eight Church and service related houses.
Estimated Trip Cost (after group fundraising): $50
The group will drive to and from Camden.