Julia Decker of Bethel Participates in Spring Break Service Trip

From University of Scranton: Julia Decker of Bethel was among 45 University of Scranton students who participated in six domestic service trips organized by Campus Ministries' Center for Service and Social Justice.

Students volunteered at the McKenna Center in Washington, D.C., a daytime drop-in center for homeless men, at which students volunteered at food pantries and soup kitchens. Students also volunteered at Francis Corps, Syracuse, New York, a Roman Catholic faith-based program, which provides after school programs, refugee resettlement programs and a food pantry, among other services. Students volunteered in Santa Clara, California, at programs organized through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, including homeless outreach programs and afterschool activities with children.

Students volunteered with the Christian Appalachian Project Workfest to repair substandard housing and build new homes for low-income families in Eastern Kentucky. Students also traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve at St. Bernard Project, a New Orleans-based nonprofit that serves low to moderate income families, to repair and rebuild homes recently devastated by flooding there. Students who went to Baton Rouge also volunteered with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at the West End House Boys and Girls Club, which serves at-risk youth through after-school programs, among other populations. Students volunteered at St. Michaels Association for Special Education in St. Michaels, Arizona, to assist children and adults with development disabilities in the classroom setting.

Decker, a sophomore in the University's College of Professional Studies, volunteered at Francis Corps in Syracuse, New York.

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