Aubrey Vrable, Saginaw native, among SVSU students volunteering over spring break

2014 Feb 27

This spring, 48 Saginaw Valley State University students will spend their spring break volunteering for organizations helping others.

Aubrey Vrable, a health science major from Saginaw , will participate in a project involving Huntsville, Ala.-based CASA of Madison County, where students will assist with elderly care at the nonprofit organization that provides services both to those 60 and older, as well as individuals wheelchair- or bedbound.

The initiative is one of four opportunities being organized through SVSU's Alternative Breaks program, a student-led group that advocates volunteer work during traditional break periods from school. All four trips will span Sunday to Saturday, March 2-8.

The university's Alternative Breaks program this year will send the students to assist the elderly in Huntsville, Ala.; help homebound individuals in Atlanta; assist with activities at an animal shelter in Xenia, Ohio; and landscape for an organization that offers equestrian activities for the disabled in Honeoye Falls, N.Y.

Upon returning from their Alternative Breaks, SVSU students will apply lessons learned on their trips toward community service projects close to SVSU and/or the students' home communities.