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Alternative Winter Break Experiences

Break away from your comfort zone, raise your awareness of social issues and injustices such as poverty, racism, and environmental issues. Learn to integrate justice and service into your everyday life. Trip locations are across the United States and International. Some examples of the types of service and learning experiences we do at the sites are:

• Spanish immersion and cultural diversity.
• Helping in impoverished areas doing community work, building and restoring homes, schools etc.
• Helping the homeless and serving in soup kitchens.
• Education, helping disadvantaged youth, working with inner city children and tutoring adults.
• Seeking justice through non-violence, resistance training.
• Environmental and eco-justice.

 2013-2014 Theme

"Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Hands."

"I learned that compassion, hospitality, curiosity, and an eagerness to learn will always bring people together."'

~2013 Participant