Fighting So The Weak May Be Nourished
The Notre Dame Bengal Bouts, an annual amateur boxing competition, raises money for Holy Cross missions in what is now Bangladesh. It has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars for food, medicine and education for the people of the region since it began in the 1920s.
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