Members of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University’s Global Service Learning (GSL) student organization traveled to Guatemala this summer for their annual international service project.
Twelve º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ students involved in the student organization, Global Service Learning (GSL), spent their semester break in January at the Iskashitaa Refugee Network in Tucson, Ariz.
A group of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University students will start the new year serving those who are starting a new life.
Twelve members of the student organization, Global Service Learning (GSL), along with two º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ staff will travel to Tucson, Arizona, for eight days — January 5-12 — where they will help refugees integrate into their new communities.
This summer, nine students and two faculty headed back to San Miguel Milpas Altas, Guatemala, where they joined the organization Constru Casa in constructing two houses for local families.
Eight months. That’s all it took for º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university to give 12,500 hours of service to communities across the world.
10,087: That’s how many hours º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends have collectively given in community service since August.
The goal — in honor of the university’s 125th anniversary — is 12,500 hours by next fall.
On September 20, º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University kicked off a celebration of 125 years of growth and prosperity, and fittingly, GSL began work on its latest service project: a community garden located right on campus.
Hard work, meaningful lessons, life-changing cultural experiences and new friendships. That’s how members of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University’s Global Service Learning (GSL) student organization describe their recent experience in Turkey.
Twelve members of Global Service Learning will travel to China where they will spend two weeks participating in service work that will focus on education and migration.
Eighteen º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University students who are interested in refugee and immigration issues will spend part of their winter break in Arizona for a service project.
Members of the student organization Global Service Learning will travel to Tucson, Arizona, on January 4 where they will work with the Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network.
This summer, Global Service Learning worked alongside ConstruCASA, an organization that builds homes for Guatemalan families who fall well beneath the poverty line.
Fifteen student members of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s Global Service Learning organization traveled to Rosebud Indian Reservation during their recent winter break hoping to help its residents clean, sort, and organize a thrift store.
That task was accomplished. Perhaps their bigger accomplishment was the life lessons they brought back to Lincoln.
