Corps members teach for two years after graduation, and all positions are full-time and paid. For more information, come to Kelley Lounge on Tues. The Community Involvement Center is sponsoring an Alternative Break Trip to Reynosa, Mexico during Spring Break. Participants will be working primarily on construction projects but there will also be opportunities to work with a children's nutrition program and to assist with preventative healthcare services. There will be substantial opportunity for interaction with the community and some Spanish knowledge would be helpful but is not required.
Scholarships are available.
The trip is limited to 12 participants. Applications are available in the Community Involvement Center - stop by to pick one. In 1975, Indonesia invaded the neighboring island of East Timor, with U.S. military and political support. The brutal Indonesian military occupation continues to this day, in defiance of 10 United Nations General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions. Nina Maria da Costa, who has spoken on behalf on Timorese refugees at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and who is now on the board of the East Timor Human Rights Center, and Kristin Sundell who is from the East Timor Action Network in Boston.