HIGH POINT, N.C., March 19, 2015 – High Point University students spent their spring break taking part in a week of service for the second year in a row in Haiti, which was ravaged by an earthquake five years ago. Ten HPU students volunteered in the village of Cange by teaching English in local schools, planting crops in the rural village to help food insecurity and learning more about the people of Haiti throughout their trip.
“The people of Cange taught me what true love for your friends, God and yourself really is. We met people who have very little, yet their joyful souls, creative spirits and loving hearts made them priceless,” says HPU student Grace Brinkley. “The people I met and moments I experienced in this tiny village have awakened a sense of purpose in me, a will to influence others everyday with love and kindness and a drive to serve those in need.”
The Haiti trip is one of four student service trips that were taken during HPU’s spring break. A group of volunteers traveled to Los Angeles, Florida and Washington, D.C., for a week of service as well.
Alternative Break trips are one of many ways that HPU students, faculty and staff contribute more than 100,000 hours of service locally, nationally and internationally each year.