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Alternative Break 2006

Alternative Break 2006

 

7 Issues

7 Locations

7 Ways to Serve Generously

 
 
 
 
 
Nearly 100 students are ready to offer generous service during the winter break!
 
Affordable Housing
Bunnell, Florida
New Home construction
 
Developmentally Disabled Citizens
Glenwood, Florida
Activities with developmentally challenged youth and adults. Assistance to the facility's office and grounds.
 
Envirnomental
Golden Pond, Kentucky
Assisting this national recreational area as they prepare for their 2006 season and its 2 million visitors.
 
Faith-Based / Hurricane Relief
Presbytery of Mississippi
Gulfport, Mississippi
Assist the Presbytery with relief work and participating in worship experiences in the Gulf Coast area.
 
Hurricane Relief Efforts
Chalmette, LA
Clean-up efforts in the Gulf Coast states as a result of hurricane Katrina.
 
Urban Mission Experience
Jacksonville, Florida
Volunteer at a variety of urban social agencies including a soup kitchen, clothing distribution center, Habitat, food bank, etc.
 
Youth and Poverty
P.E.A.C.E. Community Center
Chicago, Illinois
Assist in an after school program with inner-city children and youth. One morning will be spent in service at the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
 
 

 

More than 100 Alma College students and staff traveled to destinations in New Mexico, Tennessee, Philadelphia, Louisiana and North Carolina for service projects during winter break in February 2007. “Alternative Break service experiences continue to gain popularity on Alma College’s campus,” says Sallie Scheide, assistant director in the Center for Responsible Leadership.

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Brett Seymoure

Brett Seymoure
Graduation: 2009
Major: Biology
From: Paw Paw, Michigan
Interests: Sports, Politics

Alma’s close faculty-student interaction provides numerous benefits such as the ability to do undergraduate research on a graduate level. Alma’s professors treat students more as peers welcoming student input and collaboration on faculty projects. When students are involved in research, faculty aggressively pursue publication of findings including students as co-authors.

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