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Winter Break 2009
Community Development - St Elizabeth, Jamaica
On this trip participants will tutor and mentor children in Jamaica, build a playground for a local school and possibly even help on an organic farm!
To learn more please feel free to visit the website of our community partner, VIJON: http://www.italjamaica.com/1VIJON.htm
Cost: $1,000 apx
(includes lodging, airfare, ground transportation and meals)
Spring Break 2009
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HIV/AIDS - New York
HIV/AIDS is still growing in the US and abroad. In DC the rate is 1 in 20 infected and climbing. Participants on this trip will work with organizations that provide services to clients with HIV/AIDS and their families. Work can include providing prevention information to at-risk communities, organizing an AIDS Walk, and brightening the day of those infected through music concerts.
Cost: $300 apx.
(includes lodging, airfare, ground transportation and meals)
Habitat for Humanity - Waynesburg, PA
Participants on this trip will help build houses for families in need in the Waynesburg, Pennsylvania area, which is a rural community outside of Pittsburgh.
Cost: $300 apx
(includes meals, ground transportation and lodging)
Urban Youth - Atlanta, GA
"The youth of our inner-cities, and particularly Atlanta, live each and every day without the spiritual, emotional, and social needs that are necessary to live a full life. They live in an environment so problematic, so hopeless, so negative that they are considered “at-risk.”
From Expose Experience website
Participants on this trip will work with local organizations to mentor urban youth through social activities and educational/career opportunities.
Cost: $500 apx.
(includes lodging, airfare, ground transportation and meals)
Conservation - Stuart, FL
On the edge of the everglades in Stuart, Florida, participants will learn about this unique ecosystem while repairing mangrove forests, repairing park trails and possibly building a bridge that can withstand hurricanes!
Cost: $500 apx.
(includes lodging, airfare, ground transportation and meals)
City Year --Philadelphia, PA
Help revitalize Philadelphia with City Year, an organization that teams young leaders with community needs.
Participants will paint murals at different metro stops and develop a service event for City Year’s Young Heroes Program, a weekend leadership development, social awareness, and community service program for high school-aged youth.
Cost: $475 apx.
(includes City Year fee, ground transportation, lodging and meals)
Previous Alternative Break Destinations
Summer 2008
- Kiln, MS - Children with Disabilities
Spring Break 2008
- New Orleans, LA – Hurricane Relief
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Dallas, TX - Refugee Resettlement
- Stuart, FL - Conservation
- Lebanon, PA - Habitat for Humanity
- St. Elizabeth, Jamaica - Community Development
Spring Break 2007
- New Orleans, LA – Hurricane Relief
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Philadelphia, PA – Hunger and Homelessness
Spring Break 2006
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Ocala, FL – Habitat for Humanity
- Waveland, MS – Hurricane Relief
Spring Break 2005
- Boston, MA – Hunger and Homelessness
- Cleveland, OH – Habitat for Humanity
- Eastman, GA – Habitat for Humanity
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
Spring Break 2004
- Boston, MA – Hunger and Homelessness
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Easley, SC – Habitat for Humanity
- Jersey Shore, NJ – Beach Preservation
- Atlanta, GA – Community Development
Spring Break 2002
- Key Largo, FL – Environmental Issues – Key Largo Hammock State Park
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Beattyville, KY – Habitat for Humanity
- Philadelphia, PA – Youth Issues
Spring Break 2001
- Florida – Environmental Issues
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Greenville, NC – Habitat for Humanity
- Chicago, IL – Poverty
Spring Break 2000
- Gardner, CO – Native American Issues
- Washington, DC – Local Issues
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Boston, MA – Youth Issues
Spring Break 1999
- Lynchburg, VA – Habitat for Humanity
- Detroit, MI – Youth at Risk – Elementary & Middle
- Philadelphia, PA – Housing Renovations
- Dupree, SD – Native American – Lakota Sioux - YMCA
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
Spring Break 1998
- New York – HIV/AIDS
- North Carolina – Native American Issues
- Georgia – Habitat for Humanity
- Washington, DC – Responses to Violence
- Detroit, MI – Youth at Risk – Save Our Sons and Daughters
Spring Break 1996
- Roanoke, VA – Appalachia VA Water Project
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Charleston, SC – Native American Issues
- Philadelphia, PA – Homelessness – Empty the Shelters
- Washington, DC – Social Justice and Public Policy
