Hunter Biden

And Ted Dziak had started the Jesuit International Volunteer Corps.

And it was like a... similar to the Peace Corps, but it was kind of branded as a... under the Jesuit order, but only in the sense it's non-ecumenical.

It wasn't like, you know, out-proselytizing.

It was like working in the community, social justice thing.

So they had...

a program in dangriga belize and they had a program in micronesia and they had a program in nepal and um that program they had volunteer opportunities in those places and so ted diziak and i i became close with father diziak and and uh he we along he along with nine uh i think 10 other students started a summer program which is now in like i don't know 13 different countries and there's a summer volunteer program and like for like

20 Jesuit universities all over the world.

But we started it in Jesuit International Volunteer Summer Program in Belize.

And so when I graduated from college, that's what I wanted to do.

And I thought I was going to go into the Peace Corps.

And another guy that I was friends with, Bill Watson, another Jesuit priest, this is a young, really brilliant

guys, you know, PhDs in philosophy and just amazing, amazing individuals, really dynamic people that have lived all over the world.

And he suggested that I not go, there's no need to go outside of the United States, just that if I wanted to serve, there was plenty of communities to serve here.

And so I did the Jesuit Domestic Volunteer Corps, the JVC, Northwest.

I ended up in, I was supposed to go to Indian Reservation in Eastern Washington State.

And I ended up going to Portland, Oregon and ran an emergency services center.

for people that basically, families that didn't have enough money to turn on their utilities, to turn on the lights or the gas or, you know, people with small, or groceries.

And I was, you know, I sat in the basement of a,

St.

Vincent de Paul Church in, you know, off Martin Luther King Avenue in northwest Portland.