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2011-12 Alternative Break TRIPS Destinations
NOTE: All trip application fees include transportation, community lodging, meals, and program fees.
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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: Winter Break
- Cost: $170
- Trip Leaders: Olivia Poepping
- Number of participants: 12
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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 Rachel
Sylvie
 Stephanie
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Restorative Justice
Destination: Local sites TBA
Description: Prison reform will be a local, full-service trip. It will focus on learning about and working with convicted inmates in a correctional facility. Topics that may be explored include restorative justice, prison reform, and reentry issues. Exact locations and dates are still being determined but we will look at minimum or maximum security prisons, or a juvenile facility. This trip may be of interest to students majoring in sociology, psychology, political science, and education.
- Dates: Long Weekend
- Cost: $TBD
- Trip Leaders: Rachel Schindler, Sylvie Jaspen, and Stephanie Ransom
- Number of participants: TBD
- Coordinating Sponsor: Peace and Justice Center
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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Tara
 Kara
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David Darst Center
Chicago, IL
Description: Participants will stay in a convent and are led to inner-city homeless shelters, food pantries, and rehabilitation centers to meet and interact with the people facilitating and (more importantly) benefiting from the services provided. Students learn how to be the service that impacts others and can be in solidarity with a homeless person. Students have the opportunity to impact others, themselves, and they have time to reflect upon their experience.
Immigration.
- Dates: Winter Break
- Cost: $170
- Trip Leaders: Tara Lovdahl and Kara Hirner
- Number of participants: 6
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest: David Darst Center
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Sarah
Claire
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Affordable Housing
Greenville, SC
Description: Trip
participants will spend the week working with the company Homes of Hope
and their staff which consists of all males who have overcome drug
and/or alcohol addictions. Days will consist of helping fix up
affordable housing in the Greenville community, eating lunch with the
men at the Greenville Rescue Mission, and listening to the men as they
give powerful testimonies about their past and how God helped turn their
lives around! Experience in construction is welcomed but not necessary.
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Kate
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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: Kate Rundell
- Number of participants: 4 (Spanish speakers preferred)
- Coordinating Sponsor: CCSL
- TRIPS Contact: CCSL
- Links of Related Interest:
http://www.thecapuchins.org/news/documents/Missionsnews8.08.pdf
Fox Valley Mission
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Mirjam
 Molly
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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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 Amanda
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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 6-20, 2012
- Cost: $900
- Additional $150-$250 for immunizations costs
- Trip Leader: Amanda Crupi
- Number of participants: This TRIP is full
- Coordinating Sponsor: CCSL
- TRIPS Contact: CCSL
- Links of Related Interest: Good News
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Jake
 Jenne
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Norbertine Spirituality and Service: Localitas
Philadelphia, PA
Description: Join us to grow in community (communion) and to live out the college’s motto-
“To teach by word and example.” We will learn more about the three pillars of
Norbertine life: Prayer, Service, and Hospitality by living and praying with the Norbertines and working with the homeless in the city.
- Dates: Spring Break
- Cost: $280 (flying trip)
- Trip Leaders: Jake Day and Jenne Wiedemeier
- Number of participants: 8
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Links of Related Interest:
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 Sasha
 Michelle
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Urban School Immersion
Chicago, IL
Description: Do you have a passion for working with and helping children? Do you want to learn more about Urban Education? Come and get a firsthand experience teaching in multiple, small, Catholic, and diverse schools in Chicago, IL. /Although the days are long, they're very fulfilling and you will get a lot of one-on-one time withe the kids. You also get the unique opportunity to attend mass at St. Sabina’s. You are sure to be impacted by the Urban community and get an eye-opening experience. All majors welcome.
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 Amanda
Kyle
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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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Kevin
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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: $280 (flying trip)
- Trip Leader: Kevin Gonring
- Number of participants: 10
- Coordinating Sponsor: Campus Ministry
- TRIPS Contact: Campus Ministry
- Link of Related Interest: Bethesda Project
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Morgan
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Microfinance
Destination: Dominican Republic
Description: Come participate in true sustainable service. Expand your perspective on
what constitutes service with the microloan trip to the Dominican
Republic. No worries, no knowledge of finance is needed to have a
fulfilling and educational experience abroad just a desire to serve
developing countries. We will be staying in a small community in the
Dominican Republic and partnering with a holistic microloan
organization, Esperanza. With the microloan program Dominican
communities are experiencing more medical, educational, and housing
outlets than ever before.
- Dates: January 13-21 (tentative)
- Cost: $900 (flying trip)
- Additional $150-$250 for immunizations costs
- Trip Leaders: Morgan Johnson
- Number of participants: TBD
- Coordinating Sponsor: Peace and Justice Center
- TRIPS Contact: CCSL
- Link of Related Interest: Kiva, Esperanza
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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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Alisa
Tim
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Music
Destination: Chicago, IL
Description: Description- Get ready to sing, dance, drum and perform while serving others through the healing power of music! Work with Harmony Hope and Healing to serve others through therapeutic music programs that offer healing from the devastating effects of poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse and the isolation of aging.
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 Hannah
 Mark
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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!
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