Heart-n-Soul
It's simply a way of life!
The Working Boys' Center
The Working Boys’ Center started as an educational outreach to shoeshine boys in Ecuador in 1964 by a Jesuit priest, Father Juan Halligan. The WBC has since broadened its focus from the working boy himself to teaching the boy and his entire family technical skills, together with meals, health services, housing assistance, loans to start up micro-businesses, and cultural enhancement. As the individual families learn, work, and serve their community, they are connected with supporters who raise a portion of the funds to build a home with the WBC family who will live in it. This approach has rescued over 30,000 people from poverty.
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"...Poverty is not so much an economic issue but
a spiritual problem...the human spirit..."
- Padre Juan Halligan
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Why I chose the Working Boy's' Center?
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There were three main reasons that I chose the WBC to be the first mission of Heart-n-Soul:
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I believe very strongly in the importance of self-discipline and accountability. The WBC's focus on "helping others help themselves" is an approach that I find very refreshing.
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It brings together the two things where my connection with God and Amber are the strongest, travel and church.
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It gives my husband and I the ability to share God's love with another part of the world through action, rather than preaching.
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