SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT TO THE Since 2001 Global Community Engagement has sponsored service learning projects in Santiago, Dominican Republic working in underprivileged neighborhoods with elementary schools and the Dominican and Haitian children who live and work on the streets. We work with Dominican non-governmental organizations that provide services to children in vulnerable situations as well as women and girls who are survivors or at risk of sexual and domestic abuse. COST PER INDIVIDUAL 
Every year during spring break, Global Community Engagement sponsors projects for high school, and college students in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Consider trading in your spring break for a truly meaningful experience working with underprivileged children in a developing nation. You’ll teach reading, math, art, photography and things like papermaking and basic computer literacy to young children who otherwise have few educational opportunities. You can even design your own educational programming to share with the children! All this while earning community service learning hours.
This years Alternative Spring Break service dates are:
Saturday, March 27th - Sunday, April 4th 2010 (Collier County, FL Spring Break)
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Our projects introduce participants from the developed world to the lives and realities of underprivileged children growing up in the Dominican Republic. Participants get the opportunity to play with and teach children, aged 5 to 17, many of whom live on the streets of the city struggling to make a few cents a day. We invite you to join us for one week, in the Dominican Republic, providing educational and health programming to the children. You will also have the opportunity to visit some of the cultural and historical sites in and around
The group you travel with will spend one week (Saturday through Sunday) in the Dominican Republic; mornings will be spent working with the children, afternoons visiting various sites of interest in and around the city, and early evenings we will engage in reflection activities that will provide context and the chance to share your impressions and concerns with your group.
Alternative Spring Break dates for this project coincide with the spring break of the student. Parents, grandparents, siblings and teachers are encouraged to join their student. These projects are led by experienced directors of Global Community Engagement.
Project dates for Professional and Community groups are flexible. Individuals may join Alternative Spring Break projects or groups may design their own projects around separate dates.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The cost for adult participants is $1,799, Student cost is $1,399; there is a 20% discount for siblings under 18
(This fee includes airfare, hotel accommodations, meals at the hotel including non-alcoholic beverages, in-country transportation, museum and country entrance fees and pre-planned activities. It does NOT include passport fees, vaccination costs, health insurance, or non-hotel meals.
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