Alternative Spring Break 2009
It’s not too early to think about Spring break! WCL´s annual Alternative Spring Break provides students a unique and compelling hands-on learning and community service opportunity. ASB enables students to travel into the field to engage in a particular legal theme by interacting directly with the actors involved, including affected individuals and families, government officials, attorneys, advocates, and other civil society representatives. The students also participate in significant community service activities, both during the trip and upon their return to WCL. In previous years, WCL sent the largest delegation in the US to help with relief in New Orleans and Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. Another group of students traveled to the Navajo Nation in Arizona to provide pro bono legal service to the nation’s largest non-profit Native American legal service organization. Past trips have focused on immigration/ border issues and gender violence.
The 2009 Alternative Spring Break program is still in the planning phase. If you would like to help or if you are interested in going please contact Action for Human Rights at ahr@wcl.american.edu and put “ASB Planning” in the subject line.