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Civil Rights
Description: Explore Civil Rights issues through your work with the Sacred Heart Southern Missions. You will have a chance to help in one of the poorest areas in the country by doing home repair and working with children.
- Destination: Mississippi
- Dates: Winter Break
- Cost: $150
- Trip Leaders: Billy Betts and Jessica Lococo
- Number of participants: 12
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: Sacred Heart Southern Missions
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Environmental Trip
Description: Join with other students exploring the Wisconsin wilderness through ecological service. You will have the opportunity to spend the weekend camping while working to preserve natural habitats. The trip will be working with a Park Ranger to help relate wilderness preservation to everyday life.
- Destination: TBD
- Dates: Long Weekend
- Cost: $85
- Trip Leaders: Ann Pederson
- Number of participants: TBD
- Coordinating Sponsor: LSE
- TRIPS Contact: LSE
- Links of Related Interest:
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Developmental Disabilities Community
Description: This trip focuses on current issues facing people with developmental disabilities. We will be living in a faith-based community, spending time getting to know the outstanding core members and assistants at L'Arche.
- Destination: Clinton, IA
- Dates: Winter Break
- Cost: $150
- Trip Leaders: Maggie Kitchen and Mary Hussein
- Number of participants: 6
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: L’Arche
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Immersion in Nonviolence
Description: Be part of an international struggle for human rights and global justice. Join thousands of others who travel to Columbus, Georgia, for the annual Vigil to Close the School of the Americas. The two-day event includes speakers, educational sessions and materials, a festive parade by the puppetistas and a solemn funeral procession in memory of those tortured and murdered in Latin America. Graduates of the former Army School of the Americas have been implicated in some of these human rights abuses.
- Destination: Columbus, GA
- Dates: November 20-22
- Cost: $85
- Trip Leaders: Morgan Croak and Mallory Nimis
- Number of participants: 12
- Coordinating Sponsor: Peace and Justice Center
- TRIPS Contact: LSE
- Links of Related Interest: SOA WATCH • Pace e Bene
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International Medical Trip
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.
- Destination: Nicaragua
- Dates: Saturday , Jan . 9th to Sunday , Jan . 24th
- Cost: $600 which includes: transportation to airport (probably Chicago), hotel first night in Managua, 12 hour bus ride to city of Elayote, and housing.
- Trip Leader: Amanda Muehlbauer
- Number of participants: 1*
- Coordinating Sponsor: PEace and Justice Center
- TRIPS Contact: LSE
- Links of Related Interest:
http://www.thecapuchins.org/news/documents/Missionsnews8.08.pdf
Due to changes with our partner, only two students can attend this year's exploratory trip.
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Restorative Justice
Description: How do you define “justice” in our country? In comparison to
retributive justice, restorative justice focuses on mending the harm
caused by crime. Explore how when victims, offenders and community
members collaborate to find ways to do that, the effects can be
transformational. In examining the corrections sector of the legal
system, you may find that the principles of restorative justice are
rooted in repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation.
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International Poverty
Description: Join the Good News family from Wausau and work together with participants of various ages and faiths. On the island of St. Lucia you will live at the Pastoral Center an 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.
- Destination: St. Lucia West Indies
- Dates: Winter Break
- Cost: $700
- Trip Leader: Amy Kroll
- Number of participants: 4
- Coordinating Sponsor: LSE
- TRIPS Contact: LSE
- Links of Related Interest: Good News
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Rural Poverty and Home Construction
Description: Join with other college students from across the USA, to devote your time and energy to improve the homes of Appalachian residents while learning about the injustices and realities of poverty. 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.
- Destination: Lancaster, KY
- Dates: Spring Break
- Cost: $150
- Trip Leaders: Stephanie Schauer and Kerrie McDonald
- Number of participants: 12
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: Christian Appalachian Project
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Poverty and HIV/AIDS
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.
* Destination: New York City, NY
* Dates: Winter Break
* Cost: $265 (flying trip)
* Trip Leaders: Kalindi O'Brien and Margaret Deneen
* Number of participants: 10
* Coordinating Sponsor: LSE
* TRIPS Contact: LSE
* Links of Related Interest: Where We Will Be Staying • God's Love We Deliver • AIDS: 20 Years of an Epidemic • New York City Visitors & Convention Bureau • Weather in New York City
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Flood Relief
Description: Work with The Morgan County Long Term Recovery Committee (MCLTRC) by helping to re-build homes and assist in helping storm survivors from Morgan County, IN. June brought about flooding and tornados, leaving many families without a home and in poor condition. We're not just helping people repair their houses, we're meeting and helping families repair their homes.
* Destination: Indiana
* Dates: Spring Break
* Cost: $150
* Trip Leaders: Andrea Ehlers and Koren Bandoch
* Number of participants: 12
* Coordinating Sponsor: LSE
* TRIPS Contact: LSE
* Links of Related Interest:
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Poverty and Homelessness
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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Habitat for Humanity
Description: Be a part of Habitat for Humanity volunteers from across the country and work on a variety of projects that make affordable housing possible for people experiencing poverty. In your free time, visit historic Little Rock and learn more about southern culture.
* Destination: Little Rock, AR
* Dates: Spring Break
* Cost: $150
* Trip Leaders: Jonathan O'Brien
* Number of participants: 12
* Coordinating Sponsor: St. Norbert Habitat for Humanity
* TRIPS Contact: LSE
* Links of Related Interest: Habitat for Humanity Int'l
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Poverty - Men's Trip
Description: Work with other SNC men in a men's emergency shelter which offers support for over 300 of the city's most vulnerable homeless. You will also have a chance to be a part of the Norbertine Community in Philadelphia.
- Destination: Philadelphia, PA
- Dates: Winter Break
- Cost: $265 (flying trip)
- Trip Leader: Jordan Neeck
- Number of participants: 10
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Link of Related Interest: Bethesda Project
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Spirituality and Service
Description: This TRIP is a great opportunity to serve the community of New Mexico and dive deeper into your spirituality with daily reflections led by the assistant director of FLV, Becky Welch. We will not only be serving the poor in New Mexico, but we will also have the chance to stay with Norbertines and acquire a better understanding of the Norbertine order.
- Destination: Albuquerque, NM
- Previous service trip experience required
- Dates: Winter Break
- Cost: $265 (flying trip)
- Trip Leaders: Ashley Gill and Alexa Hollnagel
- Number of participants: 10
- Coordinating Sponsor: Faith, Learning & Vocation
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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Urban School Immersion
Description: Experience the heart of urban challenges up close. Teach daily in small, urban, multi-cultural Catholic schools. Learn from smiling kids fighting surmountable odds. Experience an inspiring Catholic mass at St. Sabina’s. Find out what is being done to combat Chicago's 42% high school drop out rate.
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