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Hingham Student Builds Relationships with Boston Common Homeless

BC High junior Andrew Burke was one of 33 students who fed the homeless of the Boston Common in a school-wide program.

Andrew Burke of Hingham, a current junior at Boston College High School, was one of the 33 students who fed and befriended the hungry and homeless on the Boston Common.

Burke, who lives on Cross Street in Hingham joined  BC High's homeless outreach program which ran every Thursday for 2 1/2 hours after school during the school year.

Burke, along with his classmates at BC High, made relationships with the homeless and helped feed them.

This Project was founded by four current seniors, under the guidance of Campus Minister, Ms. Jessica Meyer.  Named the St. Louis Project after St. Louis of Toulouse, the group hopes to increase awareness of the human dignity of the homeless, hungry, and impoverished within our community, importantly advocating through our program respect and love for our brothers and sisters in need.

“The St. Louis Project is both an interactive and spiritual project, in that it not only entails direct service work but through reflection and the building of lasting relationships with the people we serve, we are living out the mission of BC High to create leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion,"Meyers said.

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