Apply for Alternative Break trips by 11/4 at this link!
*NOTE- Students on financial aid do not pay to attend ASB trips*
USA Trips
Lessons from the Border in Southern Arizona
Cost $950
Trip Description: Participants will examine immigration, justice, and humanitarian aid in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. Through service and engagement with community organizations, local advocates, and migrants, students will gain insight into the realities of this region and the impacts of US immigration policies. Community partners include Tucson Samaritans and others that support immigrant populations.
Investigating Climate Change and Its Socio-Ecological Impacts in Miami, FL
Cost $750
Trip description: Participants will engage with local climate and conservation organizations focused on exploring climate change’s socio-ecological impact in southeastern Florida, including sea-level rise and hurricanes. Through direct volunteering and reflective discussions, participants will learn about the interconnectedness between human populations and ecological systems, exploring how climate change disrupts both, with a particular emphasis on how it disproportionately affects vulnerable communities, exacerbating inequalities in health, resources, and environmental stability. By working with community members and nonprofit organizations in Miami, this trip highlights the urgency of climate change, shedding light on its profound impacts and community conservation efforts.
Latino Migrant Health in New York Urban and Rural Spaces
Cost $500
Description: Our trip focuses on Latino migrant health in rural and urban settings. By traveling between NYC and Hudson Valley, we hope to speak to community organizations, healthcare providers, and work with populations in an effort to learn and promote Latino Health equity within these areas. The New York Presbyterien health system spans city to state and in working with the Weill Cornell, NYPH, Columbia, and Hudson Valley hospitals, our ASB participants will leave our trip with a better understanding of how urban and rural practices of medicine seek to best serve their incoming migrant patient populations.
International Trips
Education as Youth Empowerment in Guatemala
Cost $1000
Description: Participants will examine some of the complex factors contributing to youth development and education in Guatemala. Through engaging with local community organizations, students will develop a deeper understanding of how education can have a lifelong impact on individuals and their communities through learning, jobs, and wellbeing. One of the groups we will work with is Safe Passage, a school which works to break the cycle of poverty for children and their families living near the Guatemala City garbage dump.
Resilient Communities Through Music and Environmental Conservation in Belize
Cost $1000
Trip Description:
How did people’s relationship to the arts and the environment change over history? How are societies today embracing or rejecting values of its history and creating new conceptions of these relationships? Participants will examine the history of Belize and how different cultures engaged in these questions. The trip will focus on engaging with organizations that promote community-led traditional and contemporary music-making, and ones that focus on environmental conservation efforts aimed at preserving Belize’s rich biodiversity.