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Community Service Trips

Alternative Breaks
The TWU Alternative Break program places teams of students in communities to engage in community service during Spring Break and one weekend each semester. Students perform short-term projects for community agencies and learn about various issues. The objectives of an Alternative Break program are to involve college students in service projects and to give students opportunities to learn about the problems faced by members of communities with whom they otherwise may have had little or no direct contact. (Adapted from Break Away, the National Alternative Break organization). In the past, we have helped at a camp for developmentally delayed adults, worked with teens with cancer and assisted at a soup kitchen and day care for homeless children.

Alternative Weekends- Dates TBA - One weekend per semester, a group of TWU students travel to a local community to participate in volunteer projects in the past, we've helped at a camp for teens with cancer, at a soup kitchen, with an AIDS organization and addressed other issues.

Alternative Spring Break- Friday, March 10-Wednesday, March 18, 2006
TWU students will travel from Denton to another community to participate in community service during Spring Break. Watch for flyers and information about this trip at the Helping Hands General Meetings.

For more information:
If you want to learn more about volunteer opportunities through TWU, please visit the Center for Student Development, e-mail jgarrett@twu.edu, or call 940.898.3626 for more information.