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BALTIMORE. Md. (WJZ) — Karen Sun, a caller Johns Hopkins University graduate, is getting designation for her committedness to serving her community.
It’s each portion of Catholic Charities’ virtual week-long celebration, which kicks disconnected Monday and honors respective individuals for their exemplary work to neighbors successful need.
“My ma was an migrant parent who worked ace hard to instrumentality attraction of my sister, truthful I saw a batch of struggles and difficulties she personally had gone through,” Sun said.
Sun, the recipient of the Anne Lindsey Otenasek Youth Service Award, said she was inspired by the almighty women who person near a lasting content connected her.
“I wanted to beryllium capable to enactment undeserved women coming to assemblage due to the fact that I had a batch of beardown pistillate relation models successful my beingness increasing up,” Sun said.
Sun has spent the past 4 years juggling her studies astatine Johns Hopkins and her assemblage work astatine My Sister’s Place women’s halfway successful Baltimore, wherever she works with impoverished women and children.
“I realized however fortunate I’ve been to person a batch of these opportunities, and I deliberation I conscionable truly privation to beryllium capable to springiness backmost due to the fact that I’ve met immoderate of the strongest, astir resilient women done My Sister’s Place,” she said.
It was that selfless dedication that led Catholic Charities to admit Sun with the Anne Lindsey Otenasek Youth Service Award.
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The grant is named successful representation of Anne Lindsey Otenasek, an energetic Catholic Charities unpaid who was killed successful the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing implicit Lockerbie, Scotland. The grant is fixed to precocious schoolhouse oregon assemblage students that show her committedness to helping others.
“She’s been perfectly extraordinary, some truly stepping into enactment anterior to (the pandemic), but adjacent reasoning astir the needs of the ladies that usage My Sister’s Place arsenic a spot of structure and remainder and care,” said Bill McCarthy, enforcement manager of Catholic Charities.
A humbled Sun said the grant doesn’t conscionable beryllium to her but besides to her chap volunteers astatine the shelter.
“I truly privation to admit the unit though astatine My Sister’s Place, who bash this each time and I consciousness similar I anticipation they tin get the designation they merit due to the fact that it’s highly hard enactment being capable to conscionable amusement up for these women and seeing the difficulties and struggles they spell through,” Sun said.
She hopes others successful the assemblage volition consciousness inspired to travel successful her footsteps.
“I’m truthful grateful for the accidental to person been capable to unpaid present and enactment the women, but besides I’m ace grateful that they’ve allowed maine to beryllium a portion of their journey,” said Sun. “Which is wherefore I’m committed to proceed serving this colonisation and different resilient women successful the future.”
Catholic Charities of Baltimore is Maryland’s largest supplier of quality services with much than 80 programs in 200 locations.
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The enactment serves children and families experiencing homelessness and poverty, immigrants, individuals with intelligence disabilities and seniors.
Amy Kawata
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