Georgetown University – Don Bosco Cristo Rey
The Department of Human Resources (GUHR) has partnered with Don Bosco Cristo Rey (DBCR), a High School of the Archdiocese of Washington. We are proud to have joined the school in its first year as a Corporate Work Study Sponsor with five students working with five departments on
Opportunities exist for
The school employs a brilliant earn and learn concept in which children from low income families, regardless of their faith, race, ethnicity and nationality are given the opportunity to afford private school education, which enhances their ability to pursue higher education in any institution in the country. Against all odds, how this model of education succeeded is better explained in their book “More Than a Dream: Cristo Rey Story: How One School’s Vision is Changing the World.”
With more students from the Cristo Rey Network becoming interested in studying at
The association between the two entities has been well recognized. In 2007, Fr. John Foley, SJ, Cristo Rey Network’s founders was awarded an Honorary degree from Georgetown University and in 2009 Dr. John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University, received Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School’s first-ever Cristo Rey Partnership Award.
Individual employees can get involved by volunteering at the school http://hr.georgetown.edu/cristoreyvolunteering.html