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2020 LIFO Missions Trip

2020 BLUE Missions Trips

Both men were marked by a little village a world away from their cosmopolitan Miami roots but that touched their hearts in ways that changed them forever.  Albert Perez was a Christopher Columbus High School student and Alfred Consuegra ttended Belen Jesuit Prep. They were just 16-year-old Catholic boys when they set out on their adventure.

It began, more than 35 years ago, as a trip with other teenage friends. The mission: build an aqueduct in a village in the Dominican Republic. The result: a lifetime commitment to improve the lives of the poorest campesinos in that Caribbean nation. Back in 1983, Albert Perez was a junior at Christopher Columbus High School and friend Alfred Consuegra was a 16-year-old at Belen Jesuit Prep.

In 1983, 16 year old Albert Perez traveled from his Florida home to the Dominican Republic as part of a high school program to help the country’s poor.  That was the beginning of a mission that Mr. Perez has never stopped.