For Immediate Release

December 7, 2006

ACND Reaches Out to Foreign Minors

Archbishop Curley Notre Dame’s National Honor Society, Campus Ministry, and Student Government are welcoming to the ACND campus unaccompanied minors from Boys Town and Open Arms International to participate in athletics or the arts for one Saturday a month.

From such countries as China, Cuba and Haiti, the unaccompanied minors are in the United States without parents or guardians to care for them. Many have been smuggled or trafficked and were placed in local communities by Homeland Security. The ACND community outreach program will provide the children an opportunity to enjoy their childhood through interaction with their peers in a safe and supportive environment.

Archbishop Curley Notre Dame High School was founded in 1953 as Notre Dame Academy and Archbishop Curley High School. The institutions took on a significant role in defining diversity as a value within the educational community

of the City and the State. The first secondary school in Florida to teach black and white students together later welcomed the Pedro Pan Scholars and more recently the Opportunity Scholars. In 1980 the two entities joined on the 4949 NE 2^nd Avenue Campus as a co-educational, Catholic, college preparatory school for grades 9 to 12 in the heart of Miami on the edge of the Art and Design District.

For more information on the unaccompanied minors program, please contact Campus Ministry Director, Mrs. Karen Ortiz, at 305.751.8367 ext. 51 or kortiz@acnd.net.

Media Contact: Katherine Doble, 305.751.8367 ext. 22, news@acnd.net.