For spring break this year, Sarah Edwards '07 is manning the phones.
As advisor for the Texas A&M student group Alternative Spring Break, Edwards is home base for the more than 40 current students spending their holiday volunteering across the nation.
There are Aggies in Arkansas, working at the children's hospital in Little Rock. There is a group in McAllen assisting the Rio Grande Valley Food Bank help Valley families. Aggies are in New Mexico digging irrigation ditches and working in the library in a Native American community. There's even a group in Biloxi helping the ongoing hurricane-related rebuilding efforts in the Gulf region.
It's all volunteer, all student-led, and all on the students' own dime.
The groups left March 8 and will work all week, Edwards said.
"Each of the trips have been checking in with me nightly," Edwards said. The message: spring break is going great.
For more information on Alternative Spring Break, visit
ASB.tamu.edu.