Published May 4, 2021
After years of hard work, the community of Sol Naciente and the Village of Once, El Salvador, has a new well and clean running water pumped into the homes of 38 families.
What began as a mission trip of Molloy College and Dominican College to help the village of Amityville Dominican Sister Flor Buruca, blossomed into a beautiful relationship between its people and the building of a new well.
The problem was that Sol Naciente - a community of displaced people - had been sharing well water with a neighboring town. Villagers did not have access to the existing well every day because it was drying up. They walked miles to get the water three to four times a week and the storage of the commodity was often unsanitary.
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Published Dec 3, 2020
From the streets of New York City to service trips to El Salvador, Edward Cramsie thanks Sister Diane Capuano, an Amityville Dominican, in a reflection written for the most recent issue of the Dominican Youth Movement Newsletter. Here is the reflection.
Before I even attended a single class at Molloy College, the first person I met was Sister Diane Capuano. From the moment I met Sister Diane, I knew that she was the embodiment of the Four Pillars of Dominican Life and she immediately became a role model in my life. We initially spoke for 20 minutes on the different service programs that Molloy had to offer and she wanted to start me off with a Midnight Run. From there, I traveled with Molloy on numerous service trips to El Salvador, West Virginia and New Orleans. Each trip I grew deeper in faith and friendship with other students and counselors and I could never truly put my finger on why these connections became so meaningful to me. One day af