Are you interested in getting out of the “Saint Louis University bubble” to learn more about the injustices present in this country? 你想建立社区吗 with fellow 博彩网址大全 students by engaging in meaningful conversations about faith and justice? Are you ready to discover how you are being called to work toward a more just world?
春假浸入式课程
Through engaging in the pillars of community, spirituality, justice and solidarity, 校园部 春假浸入式课程 will challenge you to step out of your comfort zone in order to accompany people on the margins and to critically engage with the social injustices facing those people — and to allow yourself to be radically 在这个过程中发生了变化.
Your immersion trip may last only a week, however, the knowledge you gain and the growth you experience will last long after that. Our program will continue to support and engage you in your ongoing efforts to work for justice in your communities, to stand in solidarity through practices of accompaniment and advocacy.
Applications for the 2023-2024 Immersion Program are open now and are due by Wednesday, 2023年11月1日. 联系Michael Schreiner 迈克尔.schreiner@hadeslo.com 有问题吗?.
Financial assistance is available for any student who wishes to participate in an immersion experience but would have difficulty paying the total cost. 更多的细节 are provided here in the application.
应用 for the 2023-2024 Immersion Program
旅行描述
This immersion is designed to help you see the world through the experiences, unique challenges and joys of someone with an intellectual or physical disability. 你会 spend a week with the 第一光移动社区, an organization that provides homes and workplaces where people with and without disabilities share life as peers. 你会 serve with the community as a companion and helper, sharing meals, having conversations and accompanying members, performing basic maintenance such as painting and cleaning in the houses themselves or at partner agencies.
合作伙伴组织: 第一光移动社区
在圣. Anne’s Mission on the Navajo Nation, we will immerse in service and education,
helping with manual work and visiting students at a Catholic school. 你会学到
from some Navajos about life on a reservation today. 将重点放在公众
health-related issues, including substance abuse, diabetes and access to healthy food.
你会 also experience the distinctive cultural richness of the Navajo people, including
their history, landscape, mythology and rituals, learning 机会 for solidarity
和伴奏.
合作伙伴组织: 圣安妮传教会
This immersion explores how crime impacts communities, what measures and policies
can help them heal, our responsibilities to those who have hurt us. 你会工作
与“活著茁壮成长”事工合作. 一些 机会 will be working in a food pantry, communal meals with formerly incarcerated individuals,
和参观赖克斯岛.
NOTE: You must be 21 years of age to participate in this immersion.
合作伙伴组织: 为生活茁壮成长
Step out of your everyday life -- out of your comfort zone -- and into in-depth, experiential 学习和文化沉浸. The Border Immersion Experience is an opportunity to learn about the issues affecting the lives of people on the border. 这个项目 includes fellowship at El Paso-Ciudad Juárez fence, presentations at various social justice ministries, assisting with an after-school program, personal accounts of border 墨西哥人的生活 & Mexican-American culture, tours of colonias (rural settlements) in El Paso, daily reflections, visit to ministries in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, bilingual worship at Luterana, Cristo Rey.
**Please note, depending on up-to-date US State Department travel warnings, we may
not cross the border to spend time in Juarez, MX**
合作伙伴组织: Luterana, Cristo Rey
Through this trip, you will examine the unique public health challenges created by rural poverty in Appalachia and how local communities are and are not addressing them. 你会 spend time in various sites in rural West Virginia, where you will attend presentations about alcohol and drug abuse, access to nutritious food, the effects of environmental degradation due to industrial activities in the region. 你会 also work with the local agencies below to gain a nuanced understanding of these issues through personal connections with patients in public health clinics and children in 课外项目. 你会 also learn about the history of coal and coal miners and the industry's effects on the land.