Traveling to Ecuador for an Immersion Trip
Today I will be traveling to Ecuador for an immersion trip with other students from Cabrini that will last the week. We will be staying at a retreat house with Rostro de Cristo and living and interacting with the people there. We will be living simply much like the natives who live on about two [...]
Never going to forget mission to Asia
The past two weeks I have been posting about my mission trip to Asia with the Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers. I am now back home in Pennsylvania and can not be more thankful about what I learned and experienced on this trip. The different experiences in Taiwan and South Korea that I have been privileged [...]
Eighth Day in Asia: Visit to the DMZ, Korea
Day six and seven of my mission trip with Maryknoll to Asia was traveling to Seoul, Korea, meeting the wonderful Maryknoll priests who live at the house and doing some site seeing. Today was a very interesting and a once in a life time experience. We took a tour of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)Â between North [...]
Fifth day in Asia: Memorials and a Mandarin Mass
Today we got the opportunity to tour Taipei with Father Joyalito and visit important landmarks in Taiwan’s history. Two memorials we visited were the the Sun Yat Sen Memorial and the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial. Both of these memorials have Honor Guards present 24/7 who are specially selected from the military. What I mean by specially [...]
Fourth day in Asia: Vietnamese migrant workers
Today we visited Father Cuong and his center for the Vietnamese migrant workers just outside of Taipei. It is a shelter that is geared towards helping injured Vietnamese workers win their case against their employers for the compensation they deserve. The Vietnamese like the Filipinos go through the broker system to get work but the Vietnamese [...]
Third day in Asia: Help for the homeless
Today we visited Maryknoll’s Sister Marvie at her Good Samaritan Shelter for homeless women in Taichung. She and the others who work with her travel around the city to find where the homeless women are staying in order to reach out a helping hand. The women can come to the shelter to sleep over night. [...]
My name is Danielle Alio and I am a senior communication major with a graphic design minor at Cabrini College. I am actively involved in video, radio, journalism, and theater. 


