September 23, 2011

Landis Center Allows Students to Work with Communities Locally and Around the World

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The Landis Community Outreach Center hosts dozens of programs and organizations dedicated to helping local, national, and international communities.  Students can participate in one-time service opportunities, co-curricular service-learning programs that run on a weekly basis, and through an academic course with an integrated service component.

Volunteer opportunities include Hunger and Homelessness Week, America Reads America Counts, Make a Difference Day, Best Buddies, Literacy Day, Kids in the Community, Pre-Orientation Service Program, Lafapalooza: Lafayette’s National Day of Service, and many others.

Through Alternative School Break Club, students have taken service trips to Nicaragua, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Tennessee, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast, and many other locations.

Morgan West ’13 practices her blowgun technique during an Alternative School Break trip with the Shuar people of Ecuador.
Camille Borland ’13 moves lumber meant to build a building for a botanical garden during an Alternative School Break trip to Ecuador.
Monica Manglani ’13 with children in the Dominican Republic during an Alternative School Break trip.
Students on an Alternative School Break trip help fix up a ReStore thrift store in Virginia.
Hundreds of Lafayette students, faculty, staff, and alumni donate their time during Lafapalooza: Lafayette's National Day of Service. Here, students paint a room at the Bachmann Publick House museum.
Students help clean up at Saint Anthony's Youth Center in Easton during Lafapalooza: Lafayette's National Day of Service.
Merrilee Durrwachter '91 of the Lehigh Valley alumni chapter volunteers at Center for Animal Health & Welfare during Lafapalooza: Lafayette's National Day of Service.
Members of the Long Island alumni chapter cleaned up a park in New York during Lafapalooza: Lafayette's National Day of Service.
Katie Reinhardt '12 spends time with children from Jefferson Steet Public Housing Project through the Kids in the Community program.
Muna Siddiqua '13 hangs out with her buddy during the annual Best Buddies Ball.
Joseph Houldin '12 plays with children from Jefferson Steet Public Housing Project through the Kids in the Community program.
Erin Mcintyre '12 mans the raffle table with her buddy during the annual Best Buddies Ball.
Lafayette students do activities with elementary children during the annual Literacy Day.
Students play bingo with residents at the Easton Senior Center.
Through the Journey Home program, Lafayette students and female inmates from Northampton County Prison held an informal discussion group and put the finishing touches on a rug made of recycled Lafayette T-shirts.
Students in the Inside Out class taught by Bonnie Winfield, director of the Landis Center, meet for the
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