Dave Harmon, a faculty member at Colorado Mountain College, teaches a course on World Hunger. To help students understand the myriad issues that affect international populations, he takes a group of students to Nicaragua twice a year. Students pay their own way for the trip, and raise money to support those who cannot afford to pay. In the past, the groups have helped build a school, raised money to staff the school, equipped the school with laboratory equipment, developed a safe water system and worked with farmers to develop new agricultural methods.
From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy
Website: http://www.coloradomtn.edu/distlearn/syllabi/soc270whsp02i.pdf
