
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 9, 1993                   TAG: 9310090183
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

CHARITIES FEAR IMPACT OF NATIONAL SERVICE PLAN

The Little Sisters of the Assumption send volunteers to visit the homebound in Harlem, feed the poor in Kentucky's coal country and comfort Boston's abused women. Now the century-old congregation worries about competing for recruits with the government's deep pockets.

The Little Sisters pay their mostly college-age volunteers $100 a month and house them among the poor. President Clinton's new national service program promises its volunteers generous living expenses and tuition assistance.

"The government is stepping onto the field and they're a large animal and it causes shock waves in the service community," says Maggie Fogarty, government liaison for the Catholic Network of Volunteer Service.

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