Participation is mandatory for all new GO students (2022-2023) and current GO Students (2021-2022)

Date: July 17-23, 2022

Location: Piarist High School of Kecskemét, Hungary

How can I get there? The most convenient way is by train from Budapest Nyugati train station. The school is a 10 minute walk from the station in Kecskemét

Registration: https://forms.gle/3jnrE2DSAARqNKhn7Deadline:

Registration Deadline: CLOSED

Others Interested in Attending: Older alumni and visitors (American and European friends, younger students interested in applying to the program) are also welcome!

Note: Returning students and alumni have the option to stay for the alumni weekend (July 23-24). This option is not available for new students.

Stay Posted: Follow  the Facebooks event (Global Outreach Summer Camp in Hungary) for updates!

• m.agota09@gmail.com

We're looking forward to seeing you all!

Best wishes!!  GO Hungary

  2022 GLOBAL OUTREACH
SUMMER CAMP

JULY 17-23, 2022

Piarist Gymnasium  
Kecskemét, Hungary

and

SUMMER TRIP for AMERICANS

           JULY 9-24, 2022

"Holy Heros of Poland & Hungary Pilgrimage"

Agnieszka Kuszaj, from Poland and  Ema Gromová from Slovakia share their 
American experiences including their appeal to families (married, retired, with children, no children, etc.) to host a GO student

2021 Annual Appeal

• 2021 GO Annual Appeal Letter
• 2021 GO Host Mom, GO Student, & GO Alumnus Testimony

• Mailing a check to Barbara Tota-Boryczka, GO Executive Director, 4815 Whitetail Way, Appleton, WI 54914
• Via PayPal. See Donate to GO below

**URGENT NEED**
A Call for 2022-2023 Host Families

Three (3) students are still eagerly anticipating and patiently waiting for your welcoming them into your home for the
2022-2023 GO Program year.

 Since 1991 Global Outreach Exchange Program has brought nearly 600 Catholic high school students to Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska and is seeking host families. Twenty-two (22) students have been accepted for the 2022-2023 GO Program year.
 Permanent Host Families are needed for students (boys) at Lourdes Academy in Oshkosh, McDonell Catholic in Chippewa Falls, and Roncalli in Manitowoc. Need is urgent. Students have been placed with Welcome Families, but these are strictly temporary placements. Please contact Global Outreach today.
  The 2022-2023 GO Host Family Applications can be found by clicking on "Become a Host Family" in the drop-down menu under the tab at the top of this page titled "Be Involved". 
    Please contact Global Outreach for more information: Barbara Tota-Boryczka at (920) 540-3085 and/or barbara.tota-boryczka@globaloutreachprogram.com  

2022

• June 26: 2022-2023 GO Host Family Orientation @ Mount Tabor, Menasha, WI

• July 9-24: 2022 GO Summer Trip for Americans - "Holy Heroes of Poland and Hungary Pilgrimage"
• July 17-23: 2022 GO Summer Camp at Piarist High School in Kecskemét, Hungary
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• August 5: 2022-2023 GO Students arrive in the U.S.
• August 7-11: 2022-2023 GO New Student Arrival Orientation 
• August 11: GO Mass for Host Famiies & GO Students with Potluck Supper to follow
• October: GO WI / NE Partner School Visits
• October 15: 2023-2024 GO Student Applications Due

• November: GO WI / NE Partner School Visits 
• Nvember 24: Thanksgiving
• November 27: Advent Begins

• December 25: Christmas Day

• January 1: Solemnity of Mary / New Years Day
• January 20: March for Life, Washington, DC

• February: GO Student Mid-Year Gathering @ Mount Tabor, Menasha, WI [Date TBD]
• February: Taste of Europe @ St Bernard Catholic Church, Appleton, WI [Date TBD]

• February 22: Ash Wednesday

• April 8-10: Easter Triduum
• April 9: Easter Sunday

• June 15: Departure of 2022-2023 GO Students
• June 25 (Anticipated): 2023-2024 GO Host Family Orientation @ Mount Tabor, Menasha, WI

'Eighteen-year-old Hana Hrmova, a 2020-2021 GO Student from Bratislava, Slovakia who studied at Pacelli High School (Stevens Point, WI) found herself in a precarious situation in the Spring of 2020. She, like many of her GO classmates was confronted with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. She found a unique way to face her struggles and shared her highs and lows durning an interview with Catholic Life. We invite you to learn more about Hana and her journey. Please visit the following link and enjoy Hana's Story of Trust a World Away from Home.

Catholic Life is the official magazine of the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse, published eight times a year for the people of the Diocese of La Crosse.

Here you can watch the spiritual message shared by Father Larry, Global Outreach Spiritual Director, dedicated to the whole Global Outreach Community, families, friends, supporters, and visitors in the age of CoVid-19 difficulties.

Kinga Świętoń and Laura Baníková talk with KVSS Spirit Catholic Radio about the Global Outreach program in Nebraska its mission and vision and its role in the life of a young Catholic.

If you are interested in knowing more about their journey, listen here.

   In October 2020, Pope Francis published an encyclical – Fratelli tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship (https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_ 20201003 enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html).  Given our inability to actually be “social” during the pandemic, that title might seem oddly discordant with our lives.  Very few of us have recently traveled much beyond our own streets or cities.  But in the chapter entitled “A Heart Open to the Whole World,” the Pope writes of our need to engage with humanity beyond our own borders.  “For a healthy relationship between love of ones’ native land and a sound sense of belonging to our larger human family,” Francis writes, “it is helpful to keep in mind that global society is not the sum total of different countries, but rather the communion that exists among them.”
   Creating “communion” among different countries would perhaps, on its surface, appear to be the task of diplomats: popes and cardinals, presidents and prime ministers, chancellors and heads of state.  But could an individual or a family in the midwestern United States possibly add to this “communion”?  In fact, there is a way that you can contribute to the Pope Francis’ vision of a global society grounded in communal love. 
   The Global Outreach Exchange Program has been bringing Catholic students from central and eastern Europe to the Midwest since 1991.  Based in the Diocese of Green Bay, but reaching beyond to other areas of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska, nearly 600 high school students (from Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine) have been welcomed by families in our parishes.  Students have lived with single-parent households, retired couples, and families with both pre-school and school-age children.  While the program took a hiatus year due to the pandemic, this year it has again welcomed young Europeans into our parish communities. 
   Opening your home to a student can have a tremendous impact on you and your family.  Pope Francis writes that in “seeing ourselves from the perspective of another, of one who is different, we can better recognize our own unique features and those of our culture: its richness, its possibilities and its limitations.”
   Our Catholic – our universal – faith has no geographic boundaries.  Do you have a heart open to the whole world?  As Francis observes in Fratelli tutti, “To see things in this way brings the joyful realization that no one people, culture or individual can achieve everything on its own: to attain fulfillment in life we need others.”   
   In a world that seems to be increasingly disconnected and discordant, we here in the midwestern US can make an intentional step toward Pope Francis’ “global society” and contribute to the communion of love that Jesus Christ calls us to.  You could change a young person’s life, while discovering and tapping into your capacity to change the world.