Yale Alumni Service Corps 2013 Trips -- Sign Up Now!

Join us for an inspiring service project in Nicaragua! March 16-23, 2013! The Yale Alumni Service Corps invites you – alumni, family, and friends – to Trohilo, Nicaragua, a village near New Haven’s own sister city of Leon. This service trip, in partnership with the Yale School of Nursing, is an opportunity for you to serve on projects designed around your skills and interests – you can teach children in the village school, care for patients in the medical clinic, coach sports to eager young athletes, work on construction projects, or share your business skills with small business owners. You will work side by side with the people of Trohilo as they strive to improve the quality of their lives. You will build cross cultural understanding and make friends for life. They want to meet you! For more information, please visit us at http://www.yaleservicetours.org/currtour/nica13or click here to register https://ems.resrunner.com/YaleNicaragua We can only accommodate 60 volunteers for the trip to Nicaragua so please sign up early! The cost is $1490 per person, exclusive of airfare to/from Managua, Nicaragua. Last year’s YASC program in El Castillo, Nicaragua  The villagers of Trohilo who need us this year! In the event you cannot join us in Nicaragua in March, YASC also has two more great programs coming up for summer 2013 – our first domestic service trip to West Virginia and our return to Yamoransa, Ghana! West Virginia – June 26-30, 2013We are very excited to announce our first domestic service program in rural West Virginia. In partnership with the innovative program College Summit – founded by Yale alum J.B. Schramm ’86 – we will spend 4 days preparing high school students for college by tutoring them in essay writing, reviewing the college application process, and coaching them in leadership skills. We will live with the students – for many their first time away from home and from families who have never had the opportunity to attend college ‑ in dorms on the campuses of Marshall University in Huntington and West Virginia Institute of Technology in Montgomery. The approximate cost is $500 exclusive of your transportation to/from Charleston, West Virginia. The trip will be limited to 40 volunteers. More information will be announced shortly at http://www.yaleservicetours.org/currtour/wva13 Yamoransa, Ghana – August 1-10, 2013 (To be confirmed) We did it! Last summer more than 150 alumni and their family and friends participated in a life changing – their lives and ours – service project in Yamoransa, Ghana, and the village wants us back! We invite you to serve this community and experience Ghanaian culture with your family and friends in a truly unique and inspiring manner. The approximate cost is $2,250 exclusive of airfare to/from Accra, Ghana. More information will be announced shortly at http://www.yaleservicetours.org/currtour/ghana13 Watch for further information and registration announcements over the next few months athttp://yaleservicetours.org/!! To unsubscribe from future messages, click here To view Yale's privacy policy, click here Association of Yale Alumni PO Box 209010 New Haven, CT 06520-9010 Phone: (203)432-2586 Fax: (203)432-0587 Email: aya@yale.edu Copyright © 2012-2013 Association of Yale Alumni. All rights reserved.