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Rural Life:
Family farms, isolated single mothers and elderly, transportation over many miles to work and training, agriculture being taken over by corporate giants, good growing lands being covered over with housing and subsequent services that our counties can't sustain - these are some of the issues unique to our region. A group of people we are intimately involved with are the migrant workers from Mexico and Central America, working and living hidden lives in our rural areas with little support, recognition, or services offered from our communities. The Ohio Catholic Rural Life Conference, of which we are a primary partner, is struggling to deal with these issues statewide.
Social Action:
We are empowering former welfare recipients with faith-community mentoring and offering inexpensive cars through Goodwill's car-pon program. The Catholic Commission of Wayne, Ashland & Medina has been in the forefront of these efforts, organizing local leadership. We are in the forefront of farmland preservation initiatives in Medina and Wayne counties, especially. Our work linking ethics and morality of food security for all of our citizens, along with ethics of land use that speaks to our responsibility to the common good in all our region is touching a strong chord among public officials, locally and nationally. We seek
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