Lauren O'Loughlin Spends Spring Break Volunteering in Peru

Lauren O'Loughlin, a resident of Hopkinton, MA and a member of the class of 2014 at Providence College, recently spent a week working in Peru, as part of the College's Feinstein Academic Institute's Alternative Spring Break 2012 program.

O'Loughlin was among nearly 60 Providence College students who volunteered to spend their spring break to work in 4 different locations around the world. In Peru, O'Loughlin and eleven PC students worked at an orphanage for girls and with mothers and their children, educating them on health issues. Accompanying the students on the trip was Dr. Edgar Mejía, assistant professor of Spanish at PC.