Cornell University's Public Service Center offers many opportunities for involvement. Whether locally, nationally or internationally, they offer you ways to become connected or to gather more information.

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+ Groups & Activities
+ VOLUNTEER & SERVICE

Public Service Center project coordinators are available to assist in finding the best service opportunity for you, whether it be through one-on-one matches or directing you toward student volunteer groups and projects.

In order to provide a theological context to your service and volunteer work, the Cornell Catholic chaplains can offer you insight into our Church's rich tradition of social justice teaching. Contact Fr. Daniel McMullin at dtm33@cornell.edu.

Service Trips

Students share their time and talents in many ways, sometimes beyond campus. The ministries and activities listed are planned and coordinated by student leaders.

Guatemala/Spring Break

Once again members of the Cornell Catholic Community will spend Spring Break at San Lucas Toliman Mission in Guatemala. All of our spaces are full for the 2009 trip but If you are interested in joining us in 2010, please contact Fr. Daniel McMullin via email (dtm33@cornell.edu)

Kentucky/Senior Week

Cornell student volunteers serve a full week engaged in manual labor and social outreach projects on behalf of the rural poor in Jackson County, Kentucky, sponsored by the Cornell Catholic Community and St. Paul’s Catholic Church, McKee, Kentucky.   In preparation for the week, there are five orientation meetings scheduled throughout the spring semester.

Projects include:
1. Providing help  for elderly shut-ins and other needy people with house cleaning, home repairs, yard work, farm work, home building, painting, rebuilding after fires or floods, fence repair, cutting firewood, digging water lines. 

2. Maintenance and repair of parish buildings, automobiles, and grounds at St. Paul’s Church, a poor mission parish.  In past years students have put on a new roof, cleaned up after periodic floods, repaired plumbing, constructed a new patio, repaired furniture, painted buildings, rebuilt stairs and furniture, cleaned buildings, washed windows, tended gardens, cut lawns, cut down overgrowth on creek banks, and dug drainage ditches.

Open the following documents for an application, more information and schedule.

Click here to see a photo diary of a past trip..

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