Interning for justice.CHICAGO--Last summer, 14 undergraduates from 10 Catholic colleges and universities got a chance to put Catholic social teaching to work in the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice's Catholic Social Teaching Summer Internship internship /in·tern·ship/ (in´tern-ship) the position or term of service of an intern in a hospital. internship, n the course work or practicum conducted in a professional dental clinic. . Students began their internships last June with a weeklong immersion in the basics of both Catholic social teaching and organizing for labor justice. They then moved on to their assignments with local interfaith worker justice Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan religious organization that educates and mobilizes the religious people of all faiths in the United States on issues important to working people. IWJ is governed by a 40-member board of directors. committees around the country, where they became involved with activities such as working with migrant workers, living-wage campaigns, and improving conditions for poultry workers. NICWJ NICWJ National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice also collaborated with professors and campus ministers from the students' colleges to find ways for interns  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . to take their experience back to campus, for example, by giving talks. |
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