Northeastern Voice

Students fanning out to help during spring break

Students fix up a school during a recent community-service event in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood. /EMILY CHIAVELLI

Embodying Northeastern’s commitment to solving global and societal needs, students will put their brains and their backs into community-service projects across the country and abroad during spring break.

More than 90 students have formed 10 teams, each supervised by a faculty member or university staffer, for projects in eight states and two Caribbean countries under the Alternative Spring Break program begun at Northeastern in 2003.

The students will offer more than 4,000 hours of help to efforts including home-building, teaching, AIDS awareness and environmental cleanups.

The students are raising funds to cover the costs of trips and some supplies.

The projects and locations, by category, are:

Affordable Housing/Building

Fort Smith, Ark. - Habitat for Humanity
Macon, Ga. - Rebuilding Together

Children

Killeen, Texas - Peaceable Kingdom Retreat
Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic - Orphanage • Outreach
St. Elizabeth, Jamaica – VIJON

Disaster Relief

Biloxi, Miss. - Hands On Gulf Coast
New Orleans, La. - Hands on New Orleans

Environment

Kissimmee, Fla. - The Nature Conservancy

Native American Heritage

Tahlequah, Okla. - Cherokee Nation

HIV/AIDS Awareness

Mobile, Ala. - South Alabama CARES

For more information, visit www.neu.edu/communityservice/programs/springbreaks.html.