Visitation Academy Campus Ministry to serve community
New program aimed at post-9/11 generation
A new Campus Ministry program beginning this semester at Visitation Academy is aimed at encouraging the post-9/11 generation to recognize the importance of community service, according to Arlene Figaro, principal of the Catholic school for girls located in Bay Ridge.
“These girls don’t remember Sept. 11 and the sacrifices that were made,” Figaro told the Brooklyn Eagle during an interview in her office Monday morning. “And these girls will be our future leaders. We want to encourage them to give back to the community.”
Kerry Ganim, president of the Visitation Academy Mother’s Club, who sat in on the interview, pointed out that the oldest students at the school are eighth graders, 13-year-olds, who were born a year after the terrorist attack, which took place 14 years ago. “They have no memory of it,” she said.
The Campus Ministry will conduct a wide variety of activities throughout the school year, including collecting and donating blankets, diapers and baby bottles to the New York Life Center, a pro-life facility on Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge that counsels pregnant women.