YEAR IN REVIEW

Four of Benedictine Cor Defenders, the Campus Ministry Student Leadership Team, Karol, Eileen, Marina and Kayla, represented the nineteen Benedictine Academy Student Leaders in Washington DC.   Karol presented a brief overview of our Anti-Human Trafficking efforts the first evening of the Jefferson Awards Ceremony.

Benedictine Academy's Jefferson Awards Ambassador Team is recognized for its outstanding leadership service as Modern Activists by answering the call of the UNODC and President Obama and the Franciscan Sisters of Philadelphia to become educated about the dangers of human trafficking. Benedictine Academy became the first Freedom Partner School of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. Together, the Campus Ministry Student Leadership Team at the Academy, Benedictine Cor Defenders, helped design a new educational curriculum; co-authored a New Proclamation of Freedom presented to the U.S. Government; testified before the New Jersey State legislature; and raised community awareness on Modern Day Slavery. The mission of Benedictine Academy is to empower others to become "do-gooders" and change the world to be a more humane civilization.