Spring Break Service Trip
Serve to Lead
Spring Break Service Trips:
- A low-cost, alternate option for spending your spring break
- Learn valuable life skills, make life-long friends, and learn about issues regarding the economics and systems involved with poverty in North America
- Learn key leadership, teamwork, and communication skills
- Represent Lake Forest College to far-reaching communities
- Make a difference in the lives of deserving families
Each year, the Gates Center for Leadership and Personal Growth and our student chapter of Habitat for Humanity co-sponsor a spring break service trip where students perform community service rather than head to the beaches or far off, tropical locations.
A group of 14 students have recently been selected for the 2012 Spring Break Service trip where they will travel to Dade City, Florida to help rehabilitate homes with our Habitat for Humanity partner affiliate.
Habitat for Humanity
In the past, students have gone to places such as: Tahlequah, OK; El Paso, TX; Fayetteville, NC; Trenton, NJ; and San Jose, CA. The group has worked with service organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Americorps, and Teach for America. Students who have participated in the past have commented that this has been one of the greatest, most enriching experiences of their lives.
If you are interested in participating in future service trips, contact the Gates Center for Leadership and Personal Growth at (847) 735-5210.
Foresters say…
“I like volunteering and helping out people. It is an amazing way to show how much I care about people who are in need of a place to stay. And I am grateful to everyone who made this trip become reality. We have contributed to the happiness of some persons we have never met before. This feels great.” - Alex Szilagyi ‘08
“The Spring Break Service Trip is a unique opportunity for Lake Forest College students to broaden their horizons by assisting others on a breadth of projects at Habitat for Humanity sites around the country. The experience is not easily put into words but “extremely rewarding” and “deeply fulfilling” would easily fit the bill. It really changed my perspective on the effects of natural disasters on people’s lives and lets face it spending a week in Alabama by the ocean is tons of fun even if you are building houses instead of playing at the beach. If you have any doubts about this trip, do it, you won’t regret it!” - Ed Vrtis ‘07
Announcements
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Even though Lake Forest College unexpectedly experienced record-breaking temperatures during spring break, many students already made plans to head off campus. Students traveled down south, where warmer weather traditionally is found during March. -
Fourteen Lake Forest College students, accompanied by Gates Center Director Bill Dlugokienski and Program Director Liz Snider, will leave for Dade City, Florida on Saturday, March 10 for the annual Spring Break Service Trip.
