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Service Opportunities

Throughout the school year, Campus Ministry offers opportunities to participate in service to others locally, nationally and abroad.  Every summer a cash award up to $3,000 goes to a junior who wants to spend his/ her summer doing service.  (For more information on the award, please see our page on the Valder Social Justice Award).

Opportunities / Service Options:

• Appalachia Trip, McKee, KY
  The longest standing trip in Loras’ Service Trip history, this trip is focused on helping the local residents at St. Paul’s Parish. Students work on housing improvements, visit with the elderly and learn about the Appalachian people. Students also organize a Thanksgiving dinner and entertainment for residents of the area.
  
  
• Glenmary Farm - Vanceburg, KY
  On this trip, hundreds of volunteers take part in a spring-break immersion experience that blends service, prayer and a simple community lifestyle at the Glenmary Farm. The team works on construction projects, in nursing homes and adult day cares, and on many other activities around the farm and in the community. In the process of learning about the Appalachian culture, students often find that they learn a lot about themselves and the people they are serving. 
  
  
• Mission Honduras - Flores, Honduras
  This trip involves working with Mission Honduras schools & programs, an organization that provides services to the people in this rural area. The team serves the community in many different ways. They spend time with the children at our various sites around the Comayagua Valley, visit English classes, partake in daily spiritual activities, work on labor projects, visit the local towns, and do sports and crafts with the children.
  
  
• Romero Center - East Camden, NJ
  This trip combines volunteer service in the city with work, study and prayer. During the day, the team works at a variety of work sites in Camden and the Philadelphia area. In the evening, they discuss urban poverty, social and economic justice and reflect on our call, as disciples, to embrace a "preferential option for the poor". They also tour the city and listen to people from the community tell their stories about living in Camden.
  
  
• Edmundite Mission Corps, Selma, AL
  This is an opportunity to work with the Edmundite Mission Corps in Selma. Once a prominent site in the Civil Rights Movement, Selma is now a predominantly African American, rural, Southern community which experiences high unemployment and school drop-out rates. The team assists with home repairs throughout the community and outreach in local high schools, as well as learn about the history and culture of the area.
  
  
• Habitat for Humanity - New Orleans, Louisiana

  We are working with the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity on the St. Bernard’s Recovery Project. The St. Bernard’s community was one of the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, with significant structural damage to 100% of its residential and commercial units. The team will focus on cleaning out/building homes of the elderly and disabled of the area. The team will stay at Camp Hope while they help with the projects.
  

• The Haitian Project-Louverture Cleary School
  Croix des Bouquet, Haiti: Involves working in a co-educational, Catholic boarding school which nurtures academically talented and motivated students from the poorest Haitian families to maximize their potential and enable them to work toward building a Haiti where justice and peace thrive.  Team stayed within the school compound (walled campus) and worked alongside the students and staff on campus improvements and labor-intensive projects.  Pre-trip preparation is facilitated is facilitated by staff from the Haitian project; it involves 5 required sessions.  Due to the higher cost, the team does more fundraising and program presentations (for funding) as a group.