Alternative Spring Break
Every year during spring break, Global Community Engagement sponsors projects for students to work in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Consider trading in your spring break for a truly meaningful experience working with underprivileged children in a developing nation. You can teach reading, math, art, photography and things like basic computer literacy to young children who otherwise have limited educational opportunities. You can design your own educational programming to share with the children! All this while earning community service learning hours. Service Learning Project to The Dominican Republic
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.
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 Santiago.