Alternative Spring Break

The 2006 ASB Mission-Pilgrimage took eight UD students and their chaplain to Pensacola, FL and Biloxi, MS to help those devastated by Hurrican Katrina recover. The students worked with volunteers from all over the country through the Catholic Disaster Recovery Project and the Trinity MIssion Center out of Cleveland, OH.

The Alternative Spring Break Program was begun in 1994-1995 by the Campus Ministry Office under the direction of Christine Edmonds. It focused on two primary locations--Ecuador and Mississippi--to assist established mission programs in both the United States and abroad. ASB has continued work in the two locations, as well as other locations throughout the United States, so that successive generations of students are able to see the changes that have been made in the lives of the people the program has touched. In addition, many Alternative Spring Break alumni have served as year-long missionaries throughout the world upon graduation, a number of them with Rostro de Cristo in Ecuador.

In 2005, Alternative Spring Break students travelled to Smithland, Kentucky where they again worked with the Glenmary Sisters Volunteer Program.