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Ashley Prest’s Life-Changing Journey

“In order to find yourself you must first loose yourself in the service of others.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
As Gandhi emphasized, service to others is a crucial part of personal growth, which I am in complete agreement, as I have experienced such in my life. There is nothing in life that brings me greater joy than helping others. Serving [...]

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Living for a month with the amazing girls at Saint Monica’s taught me many things which I carried with me when I returned to Ireland. What was the most difficult aspect for me to view was how much work they had to do every day. There was no comparison with the life of a [...]

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When I left my two boys, 17 and 19, in the care of my brother Digger and traveled to Kenya with my sister-n-law, I had no idea how touched I would be by the beautiful girls of St. Monica Children’s Home.
When the gates opened, we could see girls playing in the dirt courtyard, heads popping [...]

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