A dozen or so Presentation Academy students spent half a day at the Casa Latina Catholic Worker in Old Louisville Nov. 10 offering their helping hands. They helped wash windows, walls and baseboards before covering the drafty windows with plastic, provided by Project Warm, to prepare the house for winter. Alexis Cammack, above left, hung a curtain with the help a classmate before winterizing the window. Laaliyah Brooks, in the foreground above right, washed baseboards at the Casa Latina with her classmate Ava Rowan. The young women are members of Presentation’s WE Day group, an organization that empowers young people to help change the world through compassionate action. The Casa Latina is a house of hospitality that serves immigrant families. It is founded on the principles of the Catholic Worker Movement established by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the 1930s. Day’s cause for canonization is underway.
