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110918 share journey“Sharing the Journey with CRS in its 75th Anniversary Year” was the theme of three educational presentations held recently in Asheville, Charlotte and Winston-Salem. Presented by Augusto Michael Trujillo, Southeast Regional Office Communications Relationship Manager for Catholic Relief Services, the three events were sponsored by Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte.

Trujillo spoke about how CRS is “sharing the journey” with those who are poor in more than 100 countries, highlighted stories from CRS’s 75 years of global outreach, and shared his own family’s personal connection to CRS. His father, a refugee from Cuba, was going through some old paperwork one day when he found a document stating that CRS had processed his entrance into the U.S. in the early 1960s and helped him resettle in Atlanta after fleeing communist Cuba. His son, who has been an employee of CRS for eight years, was thrilled to see this paperwork and learn about this “CRS family connection.”

Trujillo is pictured holding a CRS anniversary cake with Becky Dubois, Catholic Charities’ Winston-Salem office director, accompanied by Catholic Charities staff and parishioners who attended the Oct. 19 presentation.
— Photo provided by Joseph Purello