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Stumble It!KU students wanting spring break options other than the traditional beach partying trips have the option to help others while enjoying their time off from school. Ecumenical Christian Ministries offers alternative spring break trips to help out the less-fortunate around the world.
Thad Holcombe, campus pastor, said that the trips give students an understanding of global living situations that they might not have had previously.
"Often on a global scale, whether it's New Mexico or El Salvador or Juarez, they really appreciate some of the issues and problems with a kind of passion that they didn't have before," Holcombe said. "We call it a praxis. You reflect on your action and the conscientization that comes out of that really stays with people as they go back into the classroom."
One of this year's trips is to a Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona to help an 84-year-old Navajo woman and her disabled daughter prepare for spring.
"It's one of those things when it becomes a really nice memory to have," said Brett Beneke, a Salina junior. "But if you have the chance to go back you see no reason not to In fact, you really want to."
Ecumenical Christian Ministries is sending 70 people to five different locations in the United States and Central America during this year's spring break.
