| Service learning opportunities allow students to volunteer their time and energy in meaningful ways during fall and spring breaks as well as other times of the year.
A number of opportunities exist for students to volunteer at any number of sites around the U.S. With so many sites to choose from, students can easily find a site that best fits their unique interests and abilities.
The trips planned for the 2011-2012 academic year at St. Bonaventure University are displayed below. Click on the program link to learn more about each trip.
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Sept. 24, 2011
Operation Dignity
Collins, N.Y.
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Read story published in the Olean Times Herald
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Operation Dignity is a movement to restore abandoned psychiatric hospital cemeteries across the country, where patients were buried in unmarked or numbered graves. |
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Oct. 7-9, 2011
St. Francis Inn Ministries
Philadelphia, Pa.
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St. Francis Inn ministers with the poor and homeless of Philadelphia and tries to meet their needs of food, clothing and hospitality. |
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Feb. 27-March 2, 2012
St. Francis House
Boston, Mass.
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St. Francis House provides food, clothing and support to poor and homeless men and women so they can reclaim their dignity and rebuild their lives.
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Dates To Be Announced
Thea Bowman House
Utica, N.Y.
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Thea Bowman House has been providing quality care to some of the most vulnerable children in the Utica community for nearly 20 years. |
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Dates To Be Announced
Saint's Place
Pitttsford, NY
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Saint's Place provides goods, clothes and education to refugees who are escaping violence, discrimination and poverty. |
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| In addition to the service opportunities listed above, the Franciscan Center for Social Concern is planning alternative Spring Break trips to Washington, D.C.; Albuquerque, N.M.; and Syracuse, N.Y. |