LMU Alternative Breaks Program

Vision:

The mission of LMU's Alternative Break Program is to promote service and cultural exchange on the local, national, and international level through hands-on, community based learning. Students are immersed in diverse contexts with concrete challenges that heighten social awareness and inspire lifelong social action.

Alternative Breaks Program Goals:

• Raise awareness about social injustice and the structures that perpetuate it.  
• Immerse participants in a new cultural context.                    
• Encourage members of the LMU community to approach service as a partnership with the community being served.                      
• Encourage reflection and spiritual examination in the context of service and action.
• Develop critical thinkers that will reflect about social conditions and the roots causes of problems.
• Take initiative to take action and create social change.

For 2019-20, we will focus on the following issues: racial justice, education, indigenous rights, immigrant rights, refugee crisis, mass incarceration & restorative justice, social entrepreneurship, food justice, worker's rights, sustainability & organic farming, arts and politics, and public health. Application closes Monday, September 16. 

For more information, contact Jessica Viramontes, Alternative Break Program Coordinator at 310.338.2959 or alternativebreakslmu@gmail.com