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S.O.U.L.S. is a center where students can come to do service and we provide these
opportunities for students to be engaged in
local Boston community as well as the global community.
We wanted to offer students a different opportunity to spend their spring break.
One of the ways to offer them that is provide opportunities to do
service within
communities of need,
not only here in the United States, but also abroad.
The opportunity for a
break in
El Salvador came through the collection of Motely Institute here
at Suffolk.
As congressman Joe Motely is an alumna of Suffolk. Part of his legacy
internationally was the connection he had to El Salvador,
who wanted to do some outreach to certain towns and communities the he
was very close to. That's the alternative break to El Salvador came about.
The first part of the trip
was students could go and explore the history and meet so many people
and the second part of the trip was service because we wanted the students
to be able to give back to the community and to work hand in hand with the people
that were living there.
They will be working in the project called Contra Costa, it's a community theater
outdoors where the community can come together to celebrate
its history.
It almost becomes as a community center because they don't have
any other buildings or things that serve as that.
They've been building there for the last fifteen years, but with little resources
and little man power they don't have
the hands to finish, so what the group did and will continue to do again this year
is that they will help
provide some of the materials. We do that through some of the fundraising that we do
and then actually build some of the infrastructure needed to finally
complete it.
I think it is important for students to be involved because there are the future,
they are the people who will be making policy changes in the future so for them to
understand what the needs of the community are,
not only local but again, national and globally,
it's so key.