Christine Galvin helps abused and neglected children who have fled their homelands in hopes of building a better life in the United States.

She has spent up to a thousand hours each year for more than five years working, for free, to help them.

Asked why, Galvin says simply, “They all need help.”

Pressed further, she says, “Because I speak Spanish and because I’m a lawyer, it’s a perfect set of skills to do this kind of work. So how could I not?”

Galvin, who lives in New Scotland, has responded to prejudice against immigrants, undocumented workers, writing in a letter to the Enterprise editor, “Undocumented immigrants are contributing members of our society and deserve to be treated as such.”

She says in this week’s Enterprise podcast of the kids she represents, “They work hard and they do jobs nobody wants to do.”

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