UMaine Students to Spend Spring Break
Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756
ORONO — Thousands of college students are flocking to Florida beaches for spring break, but nearly 30 University of Maine students heading south won’t be relaxing in the sun.
Two groups of UMaine students are leaving for Honduras Feb. 27 to do social work or manual labor as part of a service learning project planned as a segment of Spanish Professor Kathleen March’s MLC 496 Field Work in Modern Languages course.
Some of the students will spend two weeks laying adobe bricks to build an educational center at a demonstration farm near San Pedro Sula, to introduce rural Hondurans to more efficient sustainable farming methods. Others will visit schools, orphanages, hospitals and nursing homes in the small city of Santa Rosa de Cop