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Alternative Spring Break trips focus our attention on students who travel long distances for short-term service. But all over the country, college students help the communities where they live on an ongoing basis, tackling issues from literacy to homelessness. A group of students at New York University won a grant to start a program helping local immigrant parents remain invested in their children’s education. The program will educate parents about English translation and interpretation services currently offered by the New York City Department of Education; the students will also begin an ESL (English as a Second Language) program. A student group at North Carolina State University collaborates with the city of Raleigh to prevent homelessness and works to help Wake County’s homeless in a variety of other ways. At American University, a group of students mentor local D.C. youth. Facilitating Leadership in Youth was founded by three student mentors in the late 1990s; it now boasts 30 to 40 volunteers and will soon see its first two students graduate from high school.

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