Twelve Nebraska Wesleyan students involved in the student organization, Global Service Learning (GSL), spent their semester break in January at the Iskashitaa Refugee Network in Tucson, Ariz.
Twelve members of the student organization, Global Service Learning (GSL), along with two NWU staff will travel to Tucson, Arizona, for eight days — January 5-12 — where they will help refugees integrate into their new communities.
This summer, nine students and two faculty headed back to San Miguel Milpas Altas, Guatemala, where they joined the organization Constru Casa in constructing two houses for local families.
Eight months. That’s all it took for Nebraska Wesleyan students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university to give 12,500 hours of service to communities across the world.
Twelve members of Global Service Learning will travel to China where they will spend two weeks participating in service work that will focus on education and migration.
Members of the student organization Global Service Learning will travel to Tucson, Arizona, on January 4 where they will work with the Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network.
This summer, Global Service Learning worked alongside ConstruCASA, an organization that builds homes for Guatemalan families who fall well beneath the poverty line.
Fifteen student members of Nebraska Wesleyan’s Global Service Learning organization traveled to Rosebud Indian Reservation during their recent winter break hoping to help its residents clean, sort, and organize a thrift store.
That task was accomplished. Perhaps their bigger accomplishment was the life lessons they brought back to Lincoln.
