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  • Student at Arrupe PlacementCommunity-based Learning through Arrupe Partnerships

    Find out about community-base learning and how to engage in the community.

  • Discover WeekendsDISCOVER Weekend Retreats

    Offered twice a year, these weekend retreats help you reflect on who you are, what you really want, and who you want to become. Each weekend gives you the opportunity to stop and think, to reflect on your life and calling with others, and to ask the big questions.

  • Student on immersion tripKolvenbach Immersions

    Join your class mates in a life changing experience where you will make direct contact with communities here and abroad living on the margins.

  • Arrupe Interns 09-10 Internships and Fellowships

    Students who experience a desire to deepen their understanding of social justice through community-based learning can explore these opportunities for year-long or summer placements in the local community or abroad.

  • Let Your Life Speak ThumbnailLet Your Life Speak Vocation Symposium

    In this two-unit, Career Center vocation symposium you will listen to alumni and others who are passionate about their work, share the rewards and challenges of pursuing their calling.

  • Luncheon Speaker Series ThumbnailDISCOVER Luncheon Speaker Series

    Learn about this powerful speaker series where SCU faculty and staff share stories about who and what are the guiding influences in their life choices.

  • iconGrants Available to Students

    The Ignatian Center makes available to SCU faculty members, staff, and student groups funds that will enable them to join us in preserving and extending the Catholic identity and Jesuit mission of Santa Clara University.

  • Zen MeditationMindfulness and Zen Meditation

    Dwelling in the Present Moment? Stressed? Life out of Focus? Trouble Sleeping? Need time to just be? Interested in meditation but don't know how or where to begin? Join a weekly practice of Mindfulness and Zen Meditation.


MartaLangland

Marta Langland

I have been most largely involved at SCU with SCCAP (Santa Clara Community Action Program) as a Program Coordinator for ESL at the Mountain View Day Worker Center, the Environmental Studies Institute through an Environmental Vocation Internship working with community food security and farm worker justice, as well as being a research assistant for the Environmental Studies Institute studying environmental racism issues in Santa Clara county.

In 2007 I was given the opportunity to be a CRS/SCU intern in El Salvador.I was able to take a look at the many projects CRS supports and how they are functioning to improve the lives of those in the country that need it most.I spent time experiencing projects that aided with agribusiness and sustainable agriculture, a coffee farm, women's HIV/AIDS support groups, the CRS peace school, human rights activism, environmental stewardship, youth groups, and a variety of others.I became close with many of the communities and learned so much from those working hard for the betterment of Salvadoran society.

The CRS internship has allowed me to understand El Salvador in a much deeper and comprehensive way than I ever would have been able to without this experience

The time I spent with CRS in El Salvador has had a huge influence on my life's path and what I want to continue pursuing.I think about my experience with CRS daily and still believe it to be the time in my life when I learned the very most about El Salvador and about what truly matters in life.

 
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