Monday, March 26 - Friday, March 30, 2018 
          
Cost: $300

 

Santa Clara students will spend five days volunteering and learning first hand about poverty and homelessness in downtown San Jose, just beyond SCU’s campus. In partnership with Sacred Heart Community Service, an organization that prepares and distributes food to over 20,000 people every month, the SCU delegation will volunteer at a food pantry and clothing store for those in need. The trip will promote a vivid awareness of poverty through a tour of downtown and visits to a variety of community agencies. Participants will reflect on these experiences in the context of their education at SCU, and the group will have the chance to hear from community organizers and other local leaders who actively work for equality and justice in our nearby community. Other organizations the group will engage with include Recovery Cafe, First Presbyterian Church, and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.