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Home / Awards / Servitor Pacis Award / 2001 THE SERVITOR PACIS AWARD RECIPIENTS 2001 - Alexie Torres-Fleming Alexie Torres-Fleming, grew up in a public housing project, moved out of the South Bronx neighborhood, but returned after realizing that the best way to help poor people is to live and work among them. She graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx and began studies at Fordham University. She then moved to midtown Manhattan and worked with community development organizations, writing proposals on education and youth employment. Mrs. Torres-Fleming later founded the Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, an innovative program in the South Bronx which does not simply fill young people's time with sports and activities, but seeks to educate them about the roots of poverty and ways to work for change. The Center is incorporated as a non profit organization under Catholic Charities. It serves about 200 young people a year, ages 6 to 21, and employs 20 people with a budget provided by corporations and foundations. The young people who come to the Center are encouraged not to look at it as another after-school program. They must become members of the Center, and are given a sense of ownership and responsibility for its survival and advancement. They are asked to make a commitment to maintain their health, improve their minds, develop their relationship with God, and look for opportunities to help others in their families, schools and neighborhoods. In recognition of her outstanding service to God, to young people and to her country, particularly through her untiring efforts at promoting Christian values and respect for the dignity of the human person, thereby contributing significantly to the cause of peace in the world, the Path to Peace Foundation is pleased to bestow upon Mrs. Alexie Torres-Fleming the title “Servitor Pacis”--Servant of Peace.
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