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 MSU BreaksAway Program 2010 BreaksAway Sites
Glide: San Francisco, CA Issue: Homelessness/Poverty Trip Fee: $285
Glide works with homeless or those at-risk for being homeless in San Francisco. They work to break the cycles of
multi-generational dependency, poverty, and low self-worth and strive to create a healthy community by offering effective services that foster holistic healing in an environment of cultural integrity and diversity. MSU volunteers will be helping to prepare the Daily Free Meals Program and serving three meals a day to those in need. Glide was featured in the popular movie, The Pursuit of Happyness. Learn more at: www.glide.org
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest: Phoenix, AZ Issue: Refugee/Social Services Trip Fee: $285
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest Refugee & Immigration Services Division is dedicated to helping refugees from troubled nations throughout the world establish new lives in Arizona. MSU volunteers will help organize and run a day camp for the refugee children will prepare activities and crafts for the kids. There will also be opportunity to interact with the refugee families and learn from their experiences. Learn more here: www.lss-sw.org
Grand Canyon Trust, AZ Issue: Environmental/Conservation Trip Fee: $285
Join us as we return to the Grand Canyon area of Arizona to work with the Grand Canyon Trust. This organization works to restore the boundary of Grand Canyon National Park. Over the last hundred years, the springs surrounding the park have been piped and diverted for livestock use. MSU volunteers will help with the restoration treatments of the springs as well as removing non-native invasive plants, re-introducing native plant species, and
re-allocating some previously diverted water to these renewed riparian habitats. Check out this link to learn more: www.grandcanyontrust.org.
Mission of BreaksAway
The mission and purpose of the BreaksAway program is to cultivate in MSU students a spirit of community involvement and to nurture service leaders who will give back to our state, nation, and the world. MSU students work together with communities around the U.S. to promote life-long community involvement and critical thinking about our societal challenges and the roles each one of us can play in addressing those challenges.
What is BreaksAway?
On MSU BreaksAway trips, students volunteer their time to meet community needs. The communities that host MSU BreaksAway groups may be as far away as another country or only one state away. The host community offers opportunities to learn about and experience challenges that are either larger in scope or foreign to Bozeman area community challenges. Students come back to MSU with an enhanced understanding of the diverse issues that face our national and global community. Communities see tangible results from the MSU student’s projects, while students gain new skills, perspectives and relationships.
Trips are organized by the Office for Community Involvement (OCI) and are led by two MSU student Site Leaders.
WeekendAway
WeekendAway trips will have a similar structure as the BreaksAway trips, however, will be striving to meet the needs in Montana communities. Groups will travel to a Montana community over a weekend in October to provide community service and learn more about the state they live in!
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