UNC Chapel Hill: APPLES Service-Learning Program: For Students

APPLES Alternative Winter Break Trips Return to Campus

This winter break, UNC APPLES students traveled to Pocahontas County, WV and Pembroke, NC to study with the issues of Alternative Healthcare and Native Health, respectively.

In WV students served at the Gesundheit! Institute, founded in 1972 by Patch Adams. The institute will strive to be holistic in addressing the human health condition with a community garden, art center, educational center, recreational activities and a full-fledged clinic providing free care to all. The nine UNC students worked this past week weatherizing one of the institute's buildings, organizing sheets, hauling wood, cooking mass meals, making posters, and participating in continuous dialogue over the state of our current health system and the options G!I and other alternatives to the current system are offering.

In Lumberton, NC nine students spent a week not only learning about prominent issues in Robeson County and experiencing Lumbee Indian culture, but also spent each night reflecting on the day's events and making parallels with their own life experiences. ‘By the end of the trip we weren't just a group of individuals who had met a week ago. We were a family’, says senior, trip co-leader, Menna Mburi.

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