LHU Clearfield Students Help Others During Spring Break
Gant Team
CLEARFIELD – During the week of March 12, Lock Haven University’s MountainServe Center for Global Citizenship sponsored two alternative spring break service-learning programs.
Brooke Murray (Nursing) is taking the blood pressure of a patient in Morocco. (Matthew Checchio)
One program offered 20 students the opportunity to serve the Mississippi Gulf Coast in their continued efforts to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. LHU students, faculty and staff have served the Gulf Coast to provide Katrina Relief since November 2005. This March, students served at Camp Victor in Ocean Spring, Mississippi. Students rehabilitated older homes still in need of repair from Katrina while also working on and painting new houses being constructed.
Another program offered 15 students the opportunity to live and serve in rural Moroccan villages. MountainServe director Anne-Marie Turnage and Professors Amy Way and Curtis Grenoble, with coordinating support from LHU’s Institute for International Studies and its Moroccan partner school the Institute for Leadership and Communication Studies, led a group of students majoring in nursing, health science, physician assistant graduate studies and Elementary Education to provide clinical healthcare, health education, early childhood education and English language tutoring in the villages of Imloul, Agadir, and Ksar in the Skoura Oasis of the Moroccan Sahara. The students served 632 patients, 97 kindergarteners, 72 high school aged youth and provided 8 health education sessions in their week in Morocco.
MountainServe director Anne-Marie Turnage stated, “Lock Haven University continues to take pride in the commitment of its students to serving locally as well as in communities across the globe.”
Shianne Spencer (Exploratory Studies), participated in the trip to Morocco and keeps the children busy while their mothers are waiting their turn to be seen by the Physician Assistant students. (Photo provided by Matthew Checchio)
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