Alternative Breaks Students Volunteer Throughout Country During March
University of Maine students with Alternative Breaks, a student-lead organization that promotes community involvement, are spending their Spring Break volunteering throughout the United States.
Since 1998, Alternative Breaks has been organizing trips for UMaine students to provide volunteer service to others. This year, the nonprofit is sending out seven volunteer groups of 11 students. The more than 70 students, along with faculty and graduate student trip advisers, are spending one week of Spring Break on volunteer work.
One of the groups is traveling to Macon, Georgia to work with Rebuilding Macon, a volunteer organization that works with the community to rehabilitate the houses of low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly and disabled. While in Macon, the students plan to build two wheelchair ramps, paint two houses, repair two house ceilings and prepare six houses for painting, according to Rebuilding Macon.
Other volunteer locations in March:
- Frankie’s World day care center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Carolina Tiger Rescue in Pittsboro, North Carolina
- Friends of Rockaway community-based nonprofit in Far Rockaway, New York
- Sky Meadows State Park in Delaplane, Virginia
- Horse Creek Wildlife Sanctuary and Animal Refuge in Savannah, Tennessee
- Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center on New York City
More information about Alternative Breaks is online.