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Trip Sites & Information
Geographic trip locations and topic vary each year depending on student interest. CLCE staff assists students in coordinating AB sites to meet the desires of the student groups participating in AB trips. Listed below are past student led AB trips. Take a look to get some ideas on where you would like to go and what issues you would like to tackle on your AB trip!
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Winter Break 2009
Rebuilding the Gulf Coast - New Orleans, LA
Communities on the Gulf Coast are still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina. Participants on this trip will help clean out water damaged homes and help rebuild them for the local community.
Cost: $500 apx
(includes meals, airfare, ground transportation and lodging)
Community Development - St Elizabeth, Jamaica
On this trip participants will tutor and mentor children in Jamaica, build a playground for a local school and possibly even help on an organic farm!
To learn more please feel free to visit the website of our community partner, VIJON: http://www.italjamaica.com/1VIJON.htm
Cost: $1,000 apx
(includes lodging, airfare, ground transportation and meals)
Spring Break 2009
Application Deadline Oct 30 for Spring Break. Apply Now!
HIV/AIDS - New York
HIV/AIDS is still growing in the US and abroad. In DC the rate is 1 in 20 infected and climbing. Participants on this trip will work with organizations that provide services to clients with HIV/AIDS and their families. Work can include providing prevention information to at-risk communities, organizing an AIDS Walk, and brightening the day of those infected through music concerts.
Cost: $300 apx.
(includes lodging, airfare, ground transportation and meals)
Urban Youth - Atlanta, GA
"The youth of our inner-cities, and particularly Atlanta, live each and every day without the spiritual, emotional, and social needs that are necessary to live a full life. They live in an environment so problematic, so hopeless, so negative that they are considered “at-risk.”
From Expose Experience website
Participants on this trip will work with local organizations to mentor urban youth through social activities and educational/career opportunities.
Cost: TBD
Conservation - Stuart, FL
On the edge of the everglades in Stuart, Florida, participants will learn about this unique ecosystem while repairing mangrove forests, repairing park trails and possibly building a bridge that can withstand hurricanes!
Cost: TBD
Previous Alternative Break Destinations
Summer 2008- Kiln, MS - Children with Disabilities
- New Orleans, LA – Hurricane Relief
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Dallas, TX - Refugee Resettlement
- Stuart, FL - Conservation
- Lebanon, PA - Habitat for Humanity
- St. Elizabeth, Jamaica - Community Development
- New Orleans, LA – Hurricane Relief
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Philadelphia, PA – Hunger and Homelessness
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Ocala, FL – Habitat for Humanity
- Waveland, MS – Hurricane Relief
- Boston, MA – Hunger and Homelessness
- Cleveland, OH – Habitat for Humanity
- Eastman, GA – Habitat for Humanity
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Boston, MA – Hunger and Homelessness
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Easley, SC – Habitat for Humanity
- Jersey Shore, NJ – Beach Preservation
- Atlanta, GA – Community Development
- Key Largo, FL – Environmental Issues – Key Largo Hammock State Park
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Beattyville, KY – Habitat for Humanity
- Philadelphia, PA – Youth Issues
- Florida – Environmental Issues
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Greenville, NC – Habitat for Humanity
- Chicago, IL – Poverty
- Gardner, CO – Native American Issues
- Washington, DC – Local Issues
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Boston, MA – Youth Issues
- Lynchburg, VA – Habitat for Humanity
- Detroit, MI – Youth at Risk – Elementary & Middle
- Philadelphia, PA – Housing Renovations
- Dupree, SD – Native American – Lakota Sioux - YMCA
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- New York – HIV/AIDS
- North Carolina – Native American Issues
- Georgia – Habitat for Humanity
- Washington, DC – Responses to Violence
- Detroit, MI – Youth at Risk – Save Our Sons and Daughters
- Roanoke, VA – Appalachia VA Water Project
- New York, NY – HIV/AIDS
- Charleston, SC – Native American Issues
- Philadelphia, PA – Homelessness – Empty the Shelters
- Washington, DC – Social Justice and Public Policy
