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2012-13 Alternative Break TRIPS Destinations
NOTE: All trip application fees include transportation, community lodging, meals, and program fees.
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 Cassie
 Mark
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Medical Trip
Destination: Memphis, TN
Description: Are you interested in learning more about children’s health issues?
Come along with us to
Children’s hospital in Memphis, TN. We will work with children of all ages serving as anything from a bedside buddy to a special events or activities coordinator. We will also have an opportunity to shadow a
doctor for a day and really see what a day in their footsteps is like.
While we’re there we may stop by St. Jude’s children’s hospital and
serve too. Join us on this fantastic health related trip!
- Dates: Dec. 17-21st
- Cost: $200
- Trip Leaders: Cassie
Krueger and Mark
Silva
- Number of participants: TBD
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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 Claire
Maria
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Urban Education
Destination: Chicago
Description:
- Dates: March 9-17th
- Cost: $200
- Trip Leaders: Claire Westlie and Maria Howe
- Number of participants: TBD
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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 Anna
Rachel
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HIV/AIDS
Destination: New York, NY
Description: Learn more
about the impact of HIV/AIDS nationally and internationally while
serving at God's Love We Deliver and other NYC organizations addressing
the needs of people affected by this ongoing epidemic. Woo hoo!
- Dates: Jan. 13-19th
- Cost $300
- Trip Leaders: Anna
Miller and Rachel Schindler
- Number of Participants: 10
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Link of Related Interest: God Love We Deliver, Alliance
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 Sandra
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Immigration
Destination: New Mexico
Description: Would you like to
learn more about Immigration? Immigration has profoundly shaped
American politics and culture. Immigrants not only provided labor for
the growing economy but also shape the unique social and political
culture of the United States.The New Mexico Immigration trip will
partner with the Norbertine Parish of Albuquerque- Santa Maria de la Vid
Priory- and will learn and address the political discourse of
immigration through service, workshops, and mini immersion experiences
to meet with and hear the stories of immigrants.
- Dates: March 9-17th
- Cost: $300
- Trip Leaders: Sandra
Payan
- Number of participants: TBD
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: Norbertine Community of Albuquerque
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Jordan
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International Medical Trip
Nicaragua
Description: Partner with the Capuchin Overseas Mission Association and members from the Fox Valley Mission Group as they travel to Nicaragua. Experience living close to nature within a whole new culture. Possible Projects may include helping with clinics, helping prep patients for surgery, cleaning up after surgery, building/construction, and various other projects as needed.
- Dates: Jan 8-22 (tentative)
- Cost: $900 which includes: hotel first night in Managua, 12 hour bus ride to city of Elayote, and housing. Flying out of Green Bay (tentative)
- Additional $150-$250 for immunizations costs
- Trip Leader: Jordan
Vrubley
- Number of participants: 4 (Spanish speakers preferred)
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: Fox Valley Mission
http://www.thecapuchins.org/news/documents/Missionsnews8.08.pdf
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Danny
 Sarah
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Habitat for Humanity
Little Rock, AR
Description:
Let’s Rock Little Rock! Construction! Deconstruction! Painting!
Roofing! Restoring! Come join us for a transformational week in Little
Rock, Arkansas as we partner with Habitat for Humanity. Through
service, learning and fun we will immerse ourselves in the rich southern
culture and history of the south while giving back and changing lives!
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 Maggie
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St. Lucia West Indies
International Poverty
Description: Would you like to go on an International TRIP to do various types of mission work that focus on international poverty? Then join St. Norbert TRIPS Program and the Good News family from Wausau on the Island of St. Lucia. Here we will work together with participants of various ages and faiths. On the island of St. Lucia you will live at the Pastoral Center and work in the capital, Castries, and other smaller villages. Projects consist of home construction, painting, craft work, music, medical care, and visiting homes and prisons.
- Dates: January 2013
- Cost: $900
- Additional $150-$250 for immunizations costs
- Trip Leader: Maggie
Schwanke
- Number of participants:
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: Good News
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 Tressa
Kayla
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L’Arche
Destination: Iowa
Description: L’Arche is an organization/community that is dedicated to the creation and growth of homes, programs, and support networks with people who have intellectual disabilities. Their mission is to make known the gifts of people with intellectual disabilities, to foster the development of communities that respond to members' changing needs, and to engage with local cultures while working toward a more human society. Join us for this incredible trip, and to truly make a life-changing difference in the lives of the individuals you meet!
- Dates: March 9-17th
- Cost: $200
- Trip Leaders: Tressa
Reuter and Kayla Stuckey
- Number of participants: TBD
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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Luanne
Keri
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ENACTUS (Formerly known as SIFE)
Destination: Houston, TX
Description:
Do you
recognize the positive power of business? Are you interested in using classroom
knowledge to change the shape of other communities? If so, the 2013 SIFE
T.R.I.P. will give you the opportunity to do just that! St. Norbert SIFE
was established in 2001 and has quickly grown from just a few passionate
students to a business based program that is recognized by not only our local
community, but also by Fortune 500 companies around the world. SIFE’s
motto, “A head for business. A heart for the world.” will guide us as we embark
into one of the most diverse cities in the country – Houston, Texas. TRIP
members will have the chance to work on a series of different business-related
service projects as we pair with Catholic Charities and Feed the Children to
implement SIFE projects such as Let’s Can Hunger and 54218. Members of this
trip will also have the unique opportunity to team up with the University of
Houston and Kingwood College SIFE team to participate in additional volunteer
service and networking projects. Projects will range from teaching financial
literacy classes, running mock interviews, resume building workshops, food
drives, Christmas drives, educating staff about healthy living through 5418,
and much more!
Not a
member of SIFE? That’s alright! Although we encourage participants to check out
the SIFE Facebook page in order to learn a little more about our mission and
role as business-minded students in the community, anyone who has a passion for
service is welcome to apply. Looking for even more information? Everyone is welcome to attend our first SIFE meeting on September, 17 in Todd
Wehr room 146 at 7:30pm. See you there!
- Dates: December 15-22
- Cost: $300
- Trip Leaders: Luanne
Spence and Keri Hondik
- Number of participants: 8
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: SIFE on Facebook
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Jessi
Mirjam
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Christian Appalachian Project
Destination: Kentucky
Description: The Christian Appalachian Project is an interdenominational, non-profit, Christian organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual, and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services. If you have a passion for serving, and a willingness to promote dignity and independence among poverty-stricken individuals, this is your trip!
- Dates: March 9-17th
- Cost: $200
- Trip Leaders: -
Jessi Wightman and Mirjam Koehler
- Number of participants: 10
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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 Robby
Maggie
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Poverty and Homelessness
Washington D.C.
Description: Serve at the nation's largest homeless shelter (CCNV-Community for Creative Non-Violence), in the soup kitchens and deliver blankets or meals on the street. Move beyond the issue and discover the true root cause of homelessness in America and what we can do about it, from direct service to activism right in the nation's capitol.
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Luke
 Tyler
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Poverty - Men's Trip
Philadelphia, PA
Description: A unique opportunity for the Men of St. Norbert to be a part of the Norbertine Community in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. Participants will work closely with a Men’s emergency shelter offering support to and forming bonds with over 300 of the city’s homeless as well as with each other.
- Dates: Jan. 14-21
- Cost: $300
- Trip Leader: Luke
Knapp and Tyler Seidl
- Number of participants: 10
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Link of Related Interest: Bethesda Project
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New Orleans, LA
Description: Spend a week understanding and impacting Post-Katrina New Orleans school
systems. Create services such as literacy nights for parents, lessons
and tutoring for one-on-one interaction with students and engage in
discussion of education in urban settings with teachers who live it
every day. Also have a chance to experience the culture of New Orleans
through service projects, such as feeding the hungry. Have a chance to
hear first hand how the hurricane effected the residents of New Orleans.
This trip is offered to education majors only as credit for the EDUC 386. EDUC 350 is required for this trip. Weekly meetings will consist of
normal TRIPS activities as well as discussions on readings as part of
the course. All participants must register for EDUC 386 as this trip
requires a course credit fee and normal J-term call hours.
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Olivia
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Health Education
Destination: Mississippi
Description: Come to Mississippi, the state with the highest obesity rates, to learn
about the prevention of health issues, exercise, nutrition and general
health as both a social and biological issue. We will be working with
school aged children in schools and at after school programs, teaching
them about why it is important to lead a healthy lifestyle. We will also
talk with doctors and faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi
about public health and the aspects of nutrition and exercise as
prevention in the United States.
- Dates: January 5-12
- Cost $200
- Trip Leaders: Olivia
Poepping
- Number of Participants: 10
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry and Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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