26 Assumption College Students to Participate in Spring Break Mission Program

Worcester, MA-For the week of Spring Break (March 5-9, 2001), 26 students from Assumption College will participate in the CollegeÕs Spring Break Mission Program, in which the students, comprised of four groups, will volunteer at mission locations in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Greater Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The Spring Break Mission Program, sponsored by the CollegeÕs Office of Pastoral Activity, places student volunteers in positions of community service each year during the Spring SemesterÕs week-long break. The program combines days of volunteer work with evenings of reflection. This year, the Washington, DC group will volunteer at the Missionaries of Charity, and will also tutor at a Catholic elementary school; the two Philadelphia groups will be hosted by the Religious of the Assumption, and will work with Habitat for Humanity, and volunteer in soup kitchens, nursing homes, a wheelchair community, a recovery community, a home for the blind, and a shelter for women and children; and the Baltimore group will work with Habitat for Humanity. The CollegeÕs Mission Program also organizes volunteer programs each May in Mexico and Nicaragua.