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What's Right: Students Plan Spring Break Around Volunteering

Written by KEYT Producer

Story Created: Mar 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM PST

Story Updated: Mar 12, 2010 at 7:37 PM PST

Hundreds of Westmont students will be "paying it forward" during their spring break. About 340 Westmont students will spend March 15-19 volunteering for various service projects in Mississippi, Alabama, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Ensenada, Mexico.

The projects range from building homes and expanding a day care center in Ensenada, Mexico to painting and cleaning up churches, working with an after school program, distributing food, working with the homeless and working with HIV/AIDS patients in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

In Santa Barbara, more than 60 students will spend their week volunteering with A Rocha, a Christian environmental initiative. Last year, the group painted fences, helped with laundry and installed a playground at the Village Apartments on Santa Barbara's west side.

These projects are student-initiated and led. Students are also required to raise money for each trip.
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