Ministries: Immersion / Service-Learning, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Results
Border Awareness Experience, Alternative Spring Break (Washington D.C., DC)
The objective of the Border Awareness Experience (BAE) is to facilitate face to face meetings and encounters between BAE participants and people in the border community in order to raise consciousness and help break down barriers and promote social justice. We feel that the US/Mexico border is a unique place where we can better understand our role in an increasingly globalized world.
Center for Urban Research and Teaching (Washington, DC)
The Writing Program and the Center for Urban Research and Teaching jointly sponsor symposia focusing on Writing for and with the Community. These symposia address questions and possibilities that concern the faculty's intellectual work (both scholarly and pedagogical). Joined by community leaders active in developing university-community partnerships, the faculty participants explore ways of developing community-based research projects and ways of integrating community service within the academic work of their courses. There are follow-up meetings during the academic year to consider further scholarly and/or pedagogical projects developed during the symposia. Symposia topics include:
Emmitsburg Project (Washington, DC)
4 day service trip to Appalachia
Immokalee Migrant Worker Justice, Alternative Spring Break (Washington D.C., DC)
This trip will expose participants to the many difficult issues surrounding migrant workers, worker's rights, rural poverty, and modern-day slavery, specifically in the Immokalee community located in Immokalee, Florida. The trip will engage participants with questions tied to immigration, especially in its connection to labor practices.
Kino Border Immersion (KBI), Alternative Spring Break (Washington D.C., DC)
KBI brings together the resources of Georgetown University, the Jesuit Refugee Service-USA, the Catholic Diocese of Tucson, Borderlinks, and San Miguel Cristo Rey High School. The unique collaborative endeavor makes concrete Georgetown’s mission to educate for justice. The purpose of this alternative spring break program is to help students and faculty better understand issues surrounding immigration by building relationships with people living and working on the border and in southern Arizona.
Social Justice Course (Washington, DC)
Gonzaga College High School offers its rising seniors two international opportunites for direct service.
Dominican Republic:
Following junior year, a group of students spend two weeks of their summer living with families in a Dominican village, constructing sanitation facilities and experiencing a very different culture.
Guatemala:
During the summer after junior year, students spend one week working at the Mi Refugio School in the mountains of San Pedro, which is located outside Guatemala City. Our young men assist with construction projects and health clinics while also spending time with the school children.
