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Alternative Break Service Trips

Spend your break helping a community in need, while improving and growing in your own life. Join an Alternative Break team and make a difference! Trips are lead by WOU students and advised by WOU faculty and staff. All funds for the trips are fundraised by the teams. Alternative Break groups meet weekly with the student leaders to exchange information and ideas, engage in reflection activites and plan for the trip.

For more information contact Brittany: 503-838-8716

2012 Winter Focus Areas for AB Trips:

Focus Area: Homeless Youth – Week of December 9th-15th. Join our Alternative Break team this winter break! As a group we will travel to volunteer and help the homeless youth. We will go on a week-long trip that will allow us to make a difference in the lives of those who need help and support the most. The majority of our service learning will be done in homeless shelters that are already doing a wonderful job of supporting those in need. Our goal on this trip is to make a positive impact on others, while also learning and growing as individuals.

Focus Area: Children – Week of December 9th-15th. We will be working with organizations that are providing service to children/youth with autism. Our goal would to be help organizations in whatever way possible to provide better service for the needed. We also hope to understand autism in a proper way and try to make the lives of children/youth with autism better.

Focus Area: HIV/Aids – Week of December 9th-15th. Many of the 1.1 million people living with HIV in the U.S. became infected when they were teenagers. So come and make a difference in a community by volunteering a week of your break and help prevent and support those with HIV/ AIDS by raising awareness along with other WOU students.

Spring Teams will begin to form upon returning to campus in Winter Term.

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