Alternative Spring Break (ASB) is a student organization that is housed in Campus Living. This organization helps to provide students the opportunity to dedicate their spring break to benefit society. This program places teams of college students in communities to engage in community service and experiential learning. Students perform short-term projects for community agencies and learn about issues such as literacy, poverty, racism, hunger, homelessness, ageism and the environment. ASB not only seeks to involve, educate and heighten students' social awareness, but to encourage lifelong social action.
2014 Trips Locations
Trip One: Urban Poverty
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Dates: Tuesday, March 11- Sunday, March 16
Cost: $125 (can be paid in full or by payment plan) (Trip receives supplemental assistance from Campus Living)
Volunteers will work in the Atlanta metro area to do service projects that benefit lower income areas. This trip affords students the opportunity to see firsthand the poverty in urban settings and the efforts that are being made to assist people in need. This group will complete a different service project each day to provide a better sense of what is needed in an urban setting.
Trip Two: Habitat
Location: Sumter-Lake, Eustis, Florida
Dates: Sunday, March 9 – Saturday, March 15
Cost: $125 (can be paid in full or by payment plan) (Trip receives supplemental assistance from Campus Living)
Volunteers will help to build homes for low income families. These families work alongside volunteers to accomplish the dream of owning a home. Students will work with tools, paint, help move items into the home and have the opportunity to see the varied stages of the home being built.
Objectives:
Help students gain a better understanding of problems faced by members of communities with whom they otherwise may have had little or no contact.
Show students ways that they can make a difference in a community.
Engage students in the act of volunteering and promote lifelong service.
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