Office of Service-Learning

FREEDOM is a non-hierarchical student and community organization dedicated to social justice, cultural awareness, and the art of human expression. FREEDOM members meet every week to dialogue about our society and our lives. We then come up with creative ways to address social issues.

Meetings: MONDAYS AT 9 PM IN UCF (313 Thurstin Avenue at the corner of Ridge).

Contacts:

• Reise Sample, “president” of FREEDOM: rsample@bgsu.edu
• Bill Thompson, director of the UCF: wthomp@bgsu.edu

Listservs:

• FREEDOM@LISTS.BGSU.EDU
• FREEDOMDISCUSSION@LISTS.BGSU.EDU

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5209673745

PDFs:

• FREEDOM Overview
• FREEDOM Projects and Events
• The UCF: A Home for FREEDOM
• FREEDOM: Stories in Pictures
• How We Built a Home: A PowerPoint presentation chronicling FREEDOM’s experiences working with Southwest Good Samaritan Ministries’ Casita Project to build a home for an impoverished family in Derechos Humanos, Mexico.

FREEDOM & THE OFFICE OF SERVICE-LEARNING

The Office of Service-Learning at BGSU provides support to FREEDOM as part of its commitment to student engagement, social activism, and social justice. The OSL has linked FREEDOM with community members and organizations that have partnered with FREEDOM on a variety of projects and have provided community organization training for FREEDOM members.