Our Mission
Alternative Spring Break Outreach (ASBO) is a student-developed, student-run community service organization whose mission is to promote critical thinking, social action and civic engagement for a lifetime by combining education, reflection and direct service on the local, regional, national and international levels. ASBO trains and immerses students in a purposeful service experience designed to connect students and community members while enhancing growth, mutual awareness and life-long learning.
This is the second year we will be participating in a week-long "immersion" experience of community service with the Habitat for Humanity Affiliate in New Orleans to help those who continue to be devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Alternative Spring Break Outreach was developed in 2005-2006 by students out of the Stony Brook University Annual Student/Faculty/Staff retreat and through the lens of the 2006 Year of Community's theme of "Giving." In realizing the need for Stony Brook to get involved with giving back to the community, a core group of students began to work diligently to create an alternative break program to benefit communities in need while building a spirit and tradition of giving within the university.
Our 2007 Partnership
A group of Stony Brook students will be travelling to New Orleans the week of April 1st to participate in Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge program. During their Spring Break, instead of going to a beach or tourist destination, they have chosen to participate in an "immersion" experience of community service to help those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Forty-five students will be participating in the program.
The Habitat for Humanity Collegiate Challenge program began in 1989 and has grown into one of the largest year-round alternative break programs in the United States and Canada. Participants spend one week working in partnership with the local affiliate, the local community and partner families to help eliminate poverty housing in the area.
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