More Students Using Spring Break for Volunteer Work, Service-Learning
Contact: Kathleen March, 581-2088; Lyn Dexter, 581-1349; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — More than 90 UMaine students, faculty and employees are dedicating their spring break vacations to doing charitable volunteer work up and down the East Coast and in Central America this year.
It is the largest representation from UMaine since the Alternative Spring Break program began nine years ago under the auspices of the Office of Student Employment and Volunteer Programs.
Volunteers are working with AIDS patients in New York, building Habitat for Humanity homes in New York and Pennsylvania, helping with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in the South, cleaning up parts of an Everglades state park in Florida and building adobe community buildings and churches in Nicaragua.
UMaine Spanish professor Kathleen March also is going with 26 students and a VISTA volunteer on a two-week trip to Santa Rosa de Cop