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Each year the Tucker Foundation provides the opportunity for students to
spend their Spring Break as part of a service-learning trip, known as
Alternative Spring Break trips. Trips are student organized
and run, and most of the funding for each trip comes from a campus-wide
fundraising effort that occurs during the winter term.
For more information, please contact Conor Hackett, Tucker Foundation's
AmeriCorps VISTA member.
Phone: (603) 646-3777
e-mail: Conor.D.Hackett@dartmouth.edu
2008-2009 Alternative Spring Break Trips
The Tucker Foundation is currently seeking proposals for NEW SERVICE TRIPS
for the 08-09 school year. We're looking to fund TWO new spring break trips
inside the continental U.S. and we want your ideas!
Get funded! Do something incredible with it! Tell your friends!
Want to work on immigration issues in border states? Or develop community
gardens in big cities?
Please Conor Hackett or John Beardsley for more information, or to set up a
meeting if you've got a proposal idea.
Applications
National
Alternative Spring Break Trip Proposal Guidelines 2008 .
Lakota Nation at Cheyenne Nation Sioux Tribe
This trip will bring a group of Dartmouth students to the Lakota Nation at
the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe near Eagle Butte, SD. The students will have a
variety of opportunities to engage and learn from the community while
conducting a variety of community service projects including working with the
Cheyenne River Youth Project as well as a possible college awareness night with
local youth. Reflections and educational sessions for this trip will explore
topics such as the stories and traditions of this community, history of the
Lakota Nation, Native American sovereign nation status and cross cultural
education.
Dominican Republic
This experience will bring Dartmouth students to a Haitian migrant community
in the Dominican Republic during spring break 2008. This group will work in
Barrio Samán, a migrant village of roughly 100 families near the north coast of
the Dominican Republic, and aims to develop that cross-cultural relationship
through two service projects in the community: community center construction
and Fútbol Para la Vida, an HIV prevention program inspired by Grassroots
Soccer. Students will gain service experience in community development and
public health, while learning about how Dominicans and Haitians—two very
distinct cultures—came to share the island of Hispaniola. Reflections will
center on poverty, marginalization, immigration, spirituality/ religion,
international health and development.
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