Sunshine and Service: Alternative Spring Break Experiences Transform BGSU Students

When people undertake service projects, the cliché is that they want to change the world.

But when members of the BGSU community take part in Alternative Spring Break programs offered by six of the University’s faith-based and service organizations, the usual outcome is that they themselves are changed—often dramatically

To learn more about these service projects, please click on the links below:

The Office of Campus Involvement took 10 students to participate in a Habitat for Humanity build in Orange Park, Fla., not far from Jacksonville. www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/getinvolved/springbreak.html

This year the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity took some 20 students to a home build near Myrtle Beach, S.C.
www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/habitat/

This year, some 30 University students, faculty and staff took part in three separate service projects organized by St. Thomas More Parish. One group was to travel to Red Bird Mission, a work camp in Beverly, Ky., where they undertook maintenance projects for low-income families who live in the area. A second group traveled to the Web of Life Ecology Center, in Naugatuck, W.Va., and a third, to a Habitat for Humanity build in Calhoun County, Ala.
www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/st_toms/
www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/st_toms/springbreak.html

Ten students from the Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) this year visited the University of Guadalajara, in Guadalajara, Mexico, to help with that university's CRU chapter outreach effort.
www.bgcru.com

For more than 12 years, the United Christian Fellowship (UCF) has been taking students to help residents of the South Bronx in New York City. This year, 12 students were to have taken part.
www.wcnet.org/~ucf/sbronx.html

This past January, the BGSU Interfraternity Council (IFC) sent 12 students to the Boggy Creek Gang Camp near Eustis, in central Florida. There, the students serve as camp counselors for 24 children who are suffering from cancer-and their families.
www.boggycreek.org