That began his connection with the poor in Guatemala City. With funding from the Hilton Foundation of Los Angeles, he opened a Boys Hope home in Guatemala City. When he became president of St. John's Jesuit High School in Toledo, the chance to connect student volunteers with the realities of Third World poverty made sense. I'd been out of secondary schools for over twenty years. I didn't want to just raise students' consciousness about the poor.
Educators often analyze and discuss and end up just standing in place.
If you wait for all the questions to be answered before you proceed, you never proceed. In 1994 he took four student volunteers to Guatemala City. It was, Fr. Vettese admits, a plan with loose ends. I wasn't sure where it was going, but I believe anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.