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The Chiapas Project : A Catholic Worker Community
We do not get paid for our work, our work is our life in trying to live as the Gospels have shown us: recognizing our failures, giving food to the hungry, clothes to the naked, building shelters, while seeking forgiveness from those whom we have wronged.
Our aim is to live in voluntary poverty with those around us; to advocate for justice for the poor; be a prophetic, non violent witness against injustice and militarism. We encourage others outside of our small community to help us and work with us, in a nonviolent spirit that is our response to Globalization.
We are not tax exempt and we consciously choose to be so, as our co-founders have asked us to be, and to ask people to “give accordingly of their abundance at a personal sacrifice” while never asking Caesar to acknowledge and give us a tax credit for our gifts, but ask only that God recognize them. We are not governed by any denomination, church institution or worldly government. We are governed by the core group of people who serve with us in the community and take advice from those who have come before.
