Key Club Travels to Puerto Rico
Members of the Belen Jesuit Key Club arrived in San Juan Puerto Rico on December 7 with a mission to help rebuild homes of the parishioners of San Ignacio.
“There is nothing more rewarding than being able to come and help people in need,” said Robert Lopez-Irizarry ’18. “Even though the hurricanes hit over two months ago, there is still so much to do. People on the island count the days without power, yet the resilience of the Puerto Rican people is evident, especially in our Ignatian brothers.”
In addition to Lopez-Irizarry, Key club moderator Jonny Calderin ’92 and seniors Angel Noe Aguilar, Lucas Ismael Fernandez, Billy San Pedro, and Sebastian Rivera are on the mission trip.
The trip comes after the Key Club helped raise $25,000 in the relief effort after Hurricane Maria. The students will be in Puerto Rico until December 10.
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.