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Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Center for Community Engagement and Service
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
United States
Current Alternative Break Programs
Every year, the Center for Community Engagement and Service trains and sends groups of 10-15 students into their local and global communities to experience hands-on work with social justice issues.
Below is a list of the current Alternative Break programs. If you find a program that inspires you, you'll have to create a Center for Community Engagement Interest Profile through EngageNet before you can apply. You will be contacted for an interview after the application deadline.
Winter 2018-2019 Programs
Voices of Marginalized Identities in a Pan-African State
TANZANIA: ARUSHA
Explore the intersectionality of Pan-Africanism and identity politics through work with different communities and activists throughout Arusha and its surrounding areas.
Dec. 27, 2018 - Jan. 11, 2019
Ghosts of War: Post-Conflict Recovery
VIETNAM: HO CHI MINH CITY, CO CHI AND HANOI
Explore the difficulties of post-conflict recovery in Vietnam by meeting with organizations and government officials that work to clean up the hazards left behind from the war.
Dec. 27, 2018 - Jan. 13, 2019
Spring 2019 Programs
Positive Youth Development
Uzbekistan: Tashkent AND samarkand
Explore the similarities and differences between Uzbek and U.S. youth development programs.
March 8 - 17, 2019
Stolen Education: Inequity of Race and Environment
USA: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Study education equity in New Orleans while examining the effects of racial and environmental injustices.
March 8 - 17, 2019
Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
UK: Northern Ireland
Delve into Northern Ireland's peacebuilding efforts following the violent, three decades long conflict known as "The Troubles."
March 8 - 17, 2019
No Human Being is Illegal: Crisis at the U.S.-Mexico Border
USA: MCALLEN, TEXAS
Learn about the immigration crisis at the U.S. - Mexico border by volunteering with immigrant aid organizations in McAllen, Texas.
March 9 - 17, 2019
Haitian Voices: Reconsidering International Aid
HAITI: PORT-AU-PRINCE
Learn about the intersection of public health and international aid over the spring semester of 2019. Travel to Haiti and work with various community partners.
March 9 - 17, 2019
Cuba: A Look at Culture, Religion, History, and Economics
cuba: Havana AND VIñales
Understand the social construction of race, how it operates and what effect it has on the Cuban community.
March 8 - 17, 2019
Summer 2019 Programs (May 2019)
Women and Youth Empowerment in Post Genocide Rwanda
Rwanda
Come learn about and experience what women and youth empowerment look like in a post-genocide Rwanda.
May 2019
South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: Johannesburg & Cape town
Examine educational inequalities; combine leadership styles to leave participants better equipped to tackle structural inequalities in their personal lives.
May 2019
Education, Inequality and Empowerment
INDIA: TAMIL NADU
Examine the inequalities the education faces on both micro and macro levels and how structural inequalities affect you while learning practical leadership skills to make real change possible.
May 2019