MY summer service learning trips

What is service learning? In a service learning experience participants learn and develop through active participation in service conducted to meet the needs of a community. Service learning is integrated into and influences the lifelong learning of a participant and includes structured time for participants to reflect on the service experience. MY's service learning trips are coordinated with other Mayflower programs, like Mayflower's Medical Outreach in Nicaragua or with other non-profit organizations like Heifer International. The number of trips scheduled and destinations vary from year to year.

MY service learning trips require a high degree of commitment and responsibility on the part of the individual and a willingness to set aside individual needs for the group as a whole. An agressive level of fundraising is involved as well and all youth going on the trip are required to participate in fundraisers. We also rely heavily on parental help with fundrasiers.

In 2007 we'll return to Heifer Ranch. MY hopes to return to Nicaragua in the summer of 2008.

Below you'll find summaries of the 2006 trips which give you an idea of what each trip is about, costs, etc. Explore the links in the text, the links to the right, or click on the email links below to send an email.

Summer 2006 trips

::: Heifer Ranch / Perryville, Arkansas / June 4 - 9 :::

  • open to youth grades 6 – 12 as well as Mayflower adults
  • cost $330 plus spending money
  • Heifer Ranch is a hands-on learning center providing education that promotes sustainable solutions to global hunger, poverty and environmental degradation. It is located in Perryville , Arkansas (45 miles from Little Rock ).
  • want more about Heifer Ranch / click here http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.201557/
  • want more about Heifer International's programs / visit Heifer International websites www.heifer.org and www.readtofeed.org
  • to get more info send an email here or check out the info to the right

::: Mayflower Medical Outreach / Managua & Jinotega, Nicaragua / tentative dates july 28 – aug 4 :::
  • open to youth who will be juniors and seniors in the fall 2006 and high school grads as well as adults
  • cost $1,000
  • MY will participate in assisting MMO but with construction, renovation, lifting, painting, packing and unpacking, etc., for MMO's education programs, and spend some time with Nicaraguan kids at the various schools Mayflower's Medical Outreach helps support.
  • Before going to Nicaragua MY participates in helping sort, categorize and pack numerous medical / office / educational supplies for shipping to Nicaragua. The packing takes places over a period of two - three weeks on several nights a couple of months prior to the trip. Attendance at packing sessions is mandatory for MY members going to Nicaragua.
  • Want more about info about Mayflower's Medical Outreach in Nicaragua / click here for an overview http://www.mayflowerucc.org/ministries/nicaraguaMission.html
  • to get more info send an email here or check out the info to the right

 

 

 

2006 Summer Service Learning Trip Info

Trips overview, fundraising schedule & other useful information (PDF)

Heifer Ranch information (PDF)

Mayflower/Heifer Trip Contract, Waiver, Permission (PDF)

Mayflower Medical Outreach (Nicaragua) info (PDF)

Mayflower/Nicaragua Trip Contract, Waiver, Permission (PDF)