Here are some links for the Manzanar Trip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-Ny1BmGro&feature=player_embedded and http://media.www.collegian.com/media/storage/paper864/news/2009/03/25/News/Beyond.The.Barbed.Wire.videophoto.Slideshow-3681936.shtml
Participate in an Alternative Summer Break!!
Kate Quillin
Alternative Break Coordinator
kquillin@rams.colostate.edu
office: 970-491-3922
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Got plans for summer break? Forgo the usual and embrace an opportunity to leave a legacy and have an experience of a lifetime! With Alternative Breaks you can get involved with a social issue you feel passionately about and share your passion with ten of your peers. In one week you will travel and volunteer in another state, city, or country and embark on a journey that will challenge and motivate you on a variety of social causes.
The Alternative Break program is a week of immersion into different cultural, environmental, and socio-economic communities across the nation and in different countries around the world. Students provide volunteer service in exchange for education about current social and cultural issues facing the host communities.
Every spring, approximately 100 Colorado State University students ranging in age, major, upbringing, background, and interest, participate in an Alternative Break experience. And this year, it could be YOU!
This year's trips include:
Achiote, Panama Participants will work with a local community center focusing on environmental conservation and ecotourism with the Panamanian Center for Research and Social Action (CEASPA).
Catalina, California Participants stay in Catalina Island Camps, on Catalina Island, which is located southwest of Los Angeles and participate in numerous environmental projects.
Independence, California Teaming up with CSU's Asian Pacific American Cultural Center Office and the Manzanar National Historic Site, volunteers will work to preserve and learn about a former Japanese internment camp.
Juarez, Mexico Teaming up with CSU's Office of Women's Programs and the US-Mexico Solidarity Network, this trip's focus is on femicide awareness and gender issues in the border-city of Juarez.
Kanab, Utah Participants will volunteer for Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.
Kissimmee, Florida Participants will volunteer for Give Kids the World, an amusement park for children that have terminal illnesses.
Maryville, Tennessee Partnering with Once Upon a Time, CSU volunteers will assist with various projects in rural Appalachia and with the Cherokee Nation.
New Orleans, Louisiana This trip features volunteer work with the United Way and St. Bernard Project to support disaster relief and rebuilding of homes as a result of the hurricane Katrina disaster.
Omaha, Nebraska Partnering with Lutheran Refugee Services, CSU volunteers with assist refugees as they make a smooth transition to their new home in the U.S.
Scottsdale, Arizona This trip features volunteer work with Rancho Feliz to support programs and assistance for disadvantaged children and families living near the US/Mexico border.
Washington D.C. Participants on this trip will volunteer in the nation's capital providing services to residents of the nation's largest transitional homeless shelter, Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV).
Alternative Spring Break is sponsored by the Office for Student Leadership, Involvement and Community Engagement (SLiCE). For more information or an application, please contact Kate Quillin at 491-3922 or kquillin@simla.colostate.edu or stop by the SLiCE Office in the Lory Student Center (main level, right behind the main Information desk).