Tawakalitou Alabi Participates in Carleton College Alternative Spring Break

2013 Apr 15

Tawakalitou Alabi, a first-year at Carleton, participated in Carleton College's Alternative Spring Break Service Trips.

Carleton's Acting in the Community Together (ACT) program hosts Alternative Spring Break trips every year, to which students must apply and be chosen to participate. Students spend the week-long trip working with Habitat for Humanity affiliates and service-learning sites in the upper Midwest. The three destinations available for the students this year were Waterloo, Iowa; Pine Ridge, S.D.; and Wolf Ridge Sawmill Valley Farm in Finland, Minn.

Alabi of Minneapolis, Minn. traveled to Waterloo, Iowa, where she worked alongside Habitat homeowners framing, siding, painting, roofing, and insulating houses.. Upon their return, students documented their experiences and combined them into a photo-essay exhibit addressing the social and economic issues affecting each of the partner sites. These are displayed in the Carleton library throughout spring term.

Ranked among the nation's top liberal arts institutions, Carleton is a private, co-educational college of 1,900 students located 40 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul. High academic standards, an excellent teaching faculty and a diverse student body contribute to Carleton's outstanding reputation.

To learn more about Carleton's ACT Program, visit www.carleton.edu/campus/act.