| Dates: | Prom Weekend 2008 |
| Estimated Cost: | $500 |
| Contact Person | Rob Peick (651) 690-3357 |
| Description/Purpose: | Students spend time at Darst House in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. This is an urban plunge experience,e taking students to schools, nursing homes, shelters, and soup kitchens. |
| Participants: | Open to juniors and seniors |
| Dates: | April 27 - April 30, 2008 April 30 - May 3, 2008 |
| Estimated Cost: | $150 |
| Contact Person: | Peter Gleich (651) 690-3329 |
| Description/Purpose: | Under the direction of members of the Red Lake Nation, students and staff are immersed in the history, traditions, spirituality and culture of the Ojibwa people. |
| Participants: | Grades 9 - 12 |
| Dates: | March 12 - 21, 2008 |
| Estimated Cost: | $1500, includes airfare, accomodations |
| Contact Person: | Rebecca Medellin (651) 690-2443, ext. 437 |
| Description/Purpose: | This is a 10 day visit to the archdiocese's sister mission in Porto Ordaz in the eastern part of the country. The first two groups have played some baseball while learning about conditions in a Third World country and participating in service projects like building and rehabbing houses. |
| Participants: | Junior and senior boys |
Dates: |
3/28 - 4/5/08 (Alabama/Georgia) |
Estimated Cost: |
$600, includes accommodations and van transportation, does not include food. |
Contact Person |
Drew Mons or Rob Peick 651-690-2443 |
Description/Purpose: |
Students travel to Mississippi or Alabama/Georgia to visit sites important to the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and meet people who were involved in it. |
Participants: |
Open to juniors and seniors |
Dates: |
Feb 15-19, 2008 |
Estimated Cost: |
$800 includes airfare and accommodations |
Contact Person: |
Tommy Murray, (651) 690-2443, ext. 470 |
Description/Purpose: |
A visit to the stark and beautiful desert area of the US-Mexico border affords the chance to study issues like immigration, sweatshop labor, free trade, etc. |
Participants: |
Open to juniors and seniors |
Dates: |
November 15-18, 2007 |
Estimated Cost: |
$575 |
Contact Person: |
Rob Peick (rpeick@cretin-derhamhall.org) |
Description/Purpose: |
Students will travel to Ft. Benning, GA to attend the annual demonstration to close the Schools of the Americas. Students will learn about nonviolence movements, visit the Martin Luther King museum, and enjoy great southern food. |
Participants: |
Open to juniors and seniors |
Dates |
November 17-27, 2007 |
Estimated Cost: |
$1300 plus spending money $100-150 |
Contact Person: |
Toni Sternhagen, 651-690-2443, x462 |
Description/Purpose: |
The parish/mission of San Lucas Toliman on Lake Atitlan in northwestern Guatemala is host to CDH students and teachers. Students do service projects such as reforestation, build homes and shelters, pick coffee, and work at the parish school. |
Participants: |
Open to juniors and seniors |
Dates: October 18-23
Estimated Cost: $700
Contact Person: Rebecca Medellin,
651-690-2443,x437
rmedellin@cretin-derhamhall.org
Description/Purpose: This border immersiion trip will go to El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico. There will be visits withh people on both sides of the border to learn something about the border reality.
Participants: Open to
juniors and seniors
Dates: |
October 17 - 21, 2007 |
Estimated Cost: |
$700 |
Contact Person: |
Rob Peick (rpeick@cretin-derhamhall.org) |
Description/Purpose |
This social justice trip includes working with various agencies in and around the Camden, NJ, and the Philadelphia, PA areas. Work sites change daily from area shelters to soup kitchens and are coordinated through Romero House. |
Participants |
Juniors and seniors, priority given to seniors who haven’t participated in a justice education trip |
