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Andrea McAulay
  • Social Work
  • Class of 2014
  • Gladwin, MI

Andrea McAulay to Spend Winter Break Helping Feed the Hungry in D.C.

2012 Dec 12

Andrea McAulay, a communication major from Gladwin, Mich., is spending some of the 2012 winter break lending a hand in the season of giving. Part of an 11-student team from Saginaw Valley State University, McAulay will travel to Washington, D.C., working with the Youth Service Opportunity Project to help combat the effects of urban poverty. The group departs Sunday, Dec. 16, and arrives back home Friday, Dec. 21.

The trip is part of SVSU's chapter of Alternative Breaks, a nationwide organization in which students spend academic breaks traveling domestically and abroad performing charitable work to combat social issues. From SVSU, three other trips are heading out this winter break, with projects in Joplin, Mo., Greenfield, N.H., and Elizabethtown, Ky.

Within Alternative Breaks, teams raise money to cover the traveling, teach the community about their social issue and learn more about it themselves as they prepare for their trip. Then, in the weeks after their service, students devote time to the social issue in their own community, as part of the organization's mission to enable its members as active global citizens.

Saginaw Valley State University is a comprehensive university that offers 90 programs of study for more than 10,000 students on its suburban campus in Michigan's Great Lakes Bay Region. SVSU is committed to quality teaching in the classroom, field-based learning experiences, NCAA Division II athletics and a range of academic and extracurricular opportunities for students to excel.