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Don’t take a week off! Take a week on! Looking to be engaged in a service immersion experience during spring break and learning about local and national communities? This year’s trips include:
1) United Way: Williamson County, TN
– Work with subsidized housing complexes to ensure residents have access to sustainable, renewable and healthy food.
– As a team, you’ll work with UT Extension Services and local farmers on the overall garden plans, build raised beds, till the soil.
2) Habitat for Humanity: York, PA
– Provide homeownership opportunities to people living in standard housing within their community.
– The Habitat is as much about uplifting people and revitalizing community as it is about homebuilding.
3) Lake Effect Leaders Program: Erie and Crawford County, PA
– Working on housing rehabilitation and homelessness prevention projects with the Community Improvement Center through the United Way.
– Learning about the hidden treasures that are surrounding Allegheny’s campus and Erie, PA.
4) Cumberland Trail: Cumberland TN
– An ambitious 300 mile hiking trail project under development in East Tennessee. A scenic footpath follows a line of high ridges and deep gorges.
– Students partake in trail building/maintenance.
– Educational opportunities about the environment, history, geology, flora and fauna along the Cumberland Plateau.
To learn more about this year’s locations, click here. Please also go to this link to complete the online application, which is due by Saturday, Feb. 13. Group interviews will be conducted Sunday, Feb. 14 at Pelletier in the Collaboratory at 1 p.m. Questions? Please contact ASB Coordinator Charmaine Wilson at cwilson@alleghney.edu or 332-5318.