Spring Break Workfest
Videos
Spring Break Workfest New York Site
Video created by students Brittany Fleming and Molly Shaw.
In the video are Brittany Fleming, Nora Antonio, Molly Shaw, Kevin Towne, Sam Troegner, Sam Menzel, Danielle Harmon, Amanda Lanoix, and Jim Killoran '80, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity West Chester. Watch the video.
White Plains Patch posts a video of Jim Killoran '80, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Westchester, and the Saint Joseph's College student volunteers helping to build a home during spring break in March. Watch the video.
SJC students create a video of Spring Break New Orleans work site.
Meet a student volunteer
I've worked with Habitat during Spring Break Workfest, serving in New Rochelle and Yonkers, N.Y., for two years. Read more.
While most college students head to tropical beaches during spring break, some St. Joe's students volunteer their services in low-income areas that have included Appalachia, Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C. and Passamaquoddy Reservation (Maine). Typically they help to build or repair homes and work in soup kitchens, but all service experiences immerse students in the community where they serve so they can return home with a new perspective of human dignity and justice. The Spring Break Workfest program is supported through participant fees, a campus auction, student fundraisers and Annual Fund donations.
Want to experience it yourself?
Watch our students at Spring Break Workfest in Kentucky on YouTube.
To participate in Spring Break Workfest
Contact Frank Daggett at 893-7794 or fdaggett@sjcme.edu.
Spring Break Workfest 20 years later
In 1992, then campus ministy director Sister Sylvia Comer '62 launched Saint Joseph's alternative spring break focused on community service. It took off.
Blogs
Students keep us up-to-date on their spring break service experience. Read the blogs:
