Alternative spring breaks

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Alternative Spring Breaks by Tory Reiss

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Spring break has become synonymous with drunken partying. Fortunately, for college students who want their spring vacations to be a more meaningful experience, alternative spring break trips offer the opportunity to perform volunteer work throughout the world.

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Alternative Spring Breaks

by Tory Reiss

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Spring break has become synonymous with drunken partying. Fortunately, for college students who want their spring vacations to be a more meaningful experience, alternative spring break trips offer the opportunity to perform volunteer work throughout the world.

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On college campuses across America, organizations formally called Alternative Spring Break bring like-minded students together to plan a one-week trip for spring vacation. The trips focus on service-oriented tasks, such as house-building in Jamaica, animal conservation in Mexico, or community work in Morocco. Participants spend their days volunteering and their evenings relaxing and enjoying the local life. Not only have alternative spring break trips provided me with some of the most incredible travel experiences of my life, but they have birthed lifelong friendships and priceless leadership experience.

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If there is no Alternative Spring Break organization on your college campus, an alternative spring break is still an option. There are a number of organizations that work with individual volunteers. Cross-Cultural Solutions offers international trips, while United Way provides volunteering opportunities across the United States.

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Participating in alternative spring breaks is a worthy cause, but it is also a smart move for a young college student. Having that on your resume shows potential employers that you spend your time wisely rather than frivolously.

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About Tory ReissIn June 2012 Tory Reiss graduated from Northwestern University. He worked as a summer associate in 2011 at Coca-Cola Refreshments in Denver, Colorado. Reiss was a trip leader of two alternative spring break excursions to Argentina and Brazil in 2012 and 2009, respectively.