Before being sent on one of these missions, Helena wrote: “I received the grace of God, (…) the gift freely given to give and I have to share this gift! All the skills I have, the abilities I acquire, the talents I develop, are not meant to serve me, but so that I can use them to help others.”
“The greatest gift is that I know God and I can’t keep it to myself, I have to spread it! “If I can help someone, make them smile, make them happier, teach them something, then I want to do it,” he added.
The murder of Helena Kmiec in Bolivia
On January 8, 2017, Helena began her volunteer work in Bolivia, where she planned to stay six months. Just a few days after her arrival, on Tuesday, January 24, she was murdered at the Edmundo Bojanowski School, a work of the Congregation of the Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the town of Pacata in Cochabamba.