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...alternative spring break trips sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), “Civil Rights and Service” aimed to provide an opportunity for students to meet Mississippi leaders of the civil rights movement, as well as debate the role of student leadership in the context of current social issues, said Gene A. Corbin, executive director of PBHA and leader of the trip...
...part of the “Alternative Spring Break” program sponsored by the Philip Brooks House Association (PBHA), the students helped rebuild a church that had burned down in Dallas, Texas...
...member of the National Coalition for Burned Churches, a group that gathers funds and organizes people to help rebuild southern black churches burned down during the mid-1990s, McCarthy introduced PBHA to the initiative. The national organization also provides leadership development and victim support for community members...
According to McCarthy, the work was “pretty intense stuff” involving sheet rocking, installation of insulation, and restoration of floorings and sidings. PBHA also organized an HIV/AIDS assistance trip to New York, restoration trips to Alabama and Mississippi, a health clinic trip to New Orleans, and a civil rights tour in Mississippi. The Harvard Hillel organized a similar service trip to Mexico...
...many Harvard students, community service is measured not by fancy data and educational metrics, but by time, energy, and sometimes even emotional turmoil. While this often leaves students feeling defeated or futile, PBHA leaders say, that doesn’t mean that volunteers don’t accomplish something positive...