Volunteering
The Landis Center provides service opportunities for students who are interested in volunteering. Our programs support a wide range of community services, with more than 30 local nonprofit partnerships, including organizations such as Easton Area Community Center, West Ward Neighborhood Partnership, and Third Street Alliance for Women and Children.
Another popular program is Alternative School Break, where teams of students travel during January interim or spring break and help communities build homes, paint, and tutor. Recent destinations have included the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York City. Lafayette’s Engineers Without Borders chapter has, for the past several years over breaks, worked to help bring, clean, sustainable drinking water to the village of El Convento in Honduras.
At Lafayette, a can-do spirit pervades, with students often creating their own projects. Active learning takes places inside and outside the classrooms in courses that emphasize a service component, turning an academic experience into something tangible and rewarding.
Student Blogs
- Home at Last June 17, 2013I arrived at Newark Airport on Saturday, June 8th after a long, 16 hour flight and found myself greeted by my Mom, 2 sisters, and a Dunkin Donuts iced tea and a bagel. To say I was ecstatic would be an understatement. I now write to you from one of my favorite places in the […]Megan Goodman
- Nepali People, Mountains, and EVEREST June 13, 2013I am going to start off with a dream of mine that I never thought would come true: seeing Mount Everest. You know that one mountain you hear about as a kid that looks out over the world at 29,029 feet? Well I saw it and it was just as incredible and majestic as one could […]Sarah Walko
- Finding Cameras, Memories June 12, 2013When I moved out of my residence hall at the end of this semester, I found two undeveloped disposable cameras in the drawer of my desk. Thinking they were both leftovers from before I had replaced my broken (ancient) camera with a new one in Morocco, it took me a while to get them developed […]Madeline Gambino