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What We Do
Travel
Alternative Breaks travels to economically, culturally, and environmentally diverse locations all across the United States.
Serve
Alternative Breaks provides service learning opportunities working with important issues such as the environment, education, immigration, poverty, and other unmet human needs.
Changing Lives (including yours)
Alternative Breaks exposes students to communities and immersion experiences which cannot be replicated on the UW Madison campus. These lessons and perspectives can then be applied in students' own communities.
The Alternative Breaks program provides UW-Madison students with an opportunity to participate in volunteer and educational trips to culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged communities throughout the United States.
Some Key Details about Alternative Breaks:
Students are Cheap... So are our Trips.
- 1-2 week trips - $320-$480
- Weekend Trips - approximately $25
- Scholarships available on a need-basis
Trip participation based on Applications.
- Applications available appx. 2 months before trips
- Pick up Applications: Online or
- Morgridge Center for Public Service (1st Fl. Red Gym)
Trips Open to ALL UW students.
- All Trips are domestic, so no visas/passports are necessary - International students are welcome!
- All trip participants are students.
Trips operate based on a collaborative leadership model.
- Trips have no official leader/chaperone.
- Trip participants share responsibilities.
Trip participants receive necessary training prior to departure.
The Alternative Breaks Program is a student-run committee of the Union's Student Programming Board, the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD).
The Wisconsin Union features more than 1,000 events a year brought to you by the Wisconsin Union Directorate, the Union's student volunteer programming board.
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