Spring Break 2016 Means Service for BVU Students

May 2, 2016

More than 35 Buena Vista University students, faculty and staff participated in three AWOL (Alternative Week of Off-site Learning) trips during BVU’s 2016 spring break, enabling them to volunteer their time and service to a variety of people and programs.

AWOL has sent more than 689 volunteers and completed an estimated 30,366 hours of service worldwide, furthering its mission to immerse students in different cultures, heighten social awareness and advocate life-long social action through service on a local, regional and international level.

To ensure the AWOL program’s long-term impact on the student and the Storm Lake community, students research their service areas, identify a local need, serve to understand it better and address it using new skills learned on their AWOL trips and engaging in local service projects.

Learn about this year’s trips:

• Service animal training in Florida
• Inner-city poverty outreach in Washington D.C.
• Environmental conservation in Puerto Rico