Spring Break Volunteer Opportunities

Monday February 20, 2006

Got your spring break planned yet? If you're thinking you'd like to make a difference with your time, think about using spring break as a volunteer vacation opportunity. MTV and United Way, Habitat for Humanity and i-to-i are just a few organizations ready to put you to work over spring break.

Who offers spring break volunteer packages?

With i-to-i volunteer vacations, you can conserve a lake in Guatemala or build homes for Honduran families over spring break; if you want sun splashed sand, spend time on a Costa Rican beach, working with sea turtles. Through volunteering with a good student travel outfit like i-to-i,where volunteering goes hand-in-hand with travel, you'll see a piece of the planet over spring break and come home with a new perspective on what you can do with your student travel time.

Try Habitat for Humanity for any housebuilding volunteer project on the globe. Particularly partial to the Big Easy? On February 10, 2006, Nissan donated 50 full-size Nissan Titan trucks to support the organization’s rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast area, or more than a million bucks worth of trucks. Brandon Marsalis, honorary Habitat relief effort co-chair with fellow New Orleans native Harry Connick, Jr., told Habitat for Humanity, “When the world's attention turns way from this disaster, there will be tens of thousands of New Orleaneans without a place to live." Maybe you can help while nourishing yourself on shrimp poboys and fresh oysters.

MTV and United Way are also sending volunteering spring breakers to the Gulf Coast with the Storm Corps program -- a week in Bilxo, Miss, or Foley, Ala, for post-hurricane rebuilding.

Volunteer spring break resources