Applications Period Now Closed: Alternative Spring Break to Nicaragua 2010

Release date: October 14, 2009 |

Spend your Spring Break in Nicaragua on an intensive service-learning trip with Goucher Hillel and American Jewish World Service.  Learn about international grassroots development and contribute in concrete ways to the work of a long-term AJWS partner organization whose mission is to improve the living and working conditions of the most vulnerable sectors of Nicaraguan society and to reduce poverty, hunger and unemployment rates there.  By partnering collaboratively with a grassroots community-based group, volunteers will experience firsthand the power of people creating change.  Trip participants will also learn to draw on Judaism’s religious and cultural traditions about the imperative to pursue global justice, and participants will return committed and passionate about their role as global citizens in creating a more just world. 

Applications are no longer being accepted. 

The host community can only accommodate a limited number of volunteers.  Applicants will be contacted by Thanksgiving regarding the status of their applications.  Please note that submitting an application and deposit represents a commitment to participate fully in the trip.  Deposits will be returned to those who are not offered a spot on the trip.