Spring Break 2012 sent students out to Cayman Brac, Costa Rica, Cuba, Detroit, Guyana, Iceland, Mexico, New Mexico, New Orleans, New York, Nicaragua, Orlando, Peru, Puerto Rico, Ukiah, Venezuela, Washington DC and the Yucatan.

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CAYMAN- Environmental service on the second largest island in the Cayman Islands.

COSTA RICA — Service with the Rahab Foundation, which works to facilitate quality-of-life improvements and restore dignity to the families linked to commercial sexual exploitation.

CUBA — Volunteers completed service with person-to-person friendship via church and hospital. Havana is home to beautiful architecture and wonderful people but struggles with severe poverty.

DETROIT — Service provided to Cass Community Social Services, an agency that shelters, feeds and provides housing to homeless men, women and children.

GUYANA — Environmental service and volunteer work with an animal shelter and preserve in the city of Georgetown.

ICELAND — Trail and park maintenance in the beautiful Skaftafell National Park.

MEXICO — Students partnered with a recent EC grad now working for the Peace Corps by helping clear trails and assisting with a building project in El Bosque La Primavera National Park.

NEW MEXICO — Native Health Initiative welcomed students to do service oon a number of different projects ranging from work with the elderly to farming.

NEW ORLEANS - The Big Easy still struggles post-Katrina, this group worked in the city's Lower 9th Ward.

NEW YORK CITY — Dean Annarelli lead a group to explore issues of urban poverty and help out low-income people in this most amazing city.

NICARAGUA - Students helped fulfill the mission of Casa-Nica by volunteering at the National Zoo.

ORLANDO — Students worked with children and families at Give Kids the World.

PERU — Students assisted with various projects at an indigenous preschool in a low-income area on the outskirts of Lima.

PUERTO RICO — Environmental service and permaculture education work with Penitud Iniciativas Eco-educativas.

UKIAH, CALIFORNIA — Farming at a Buddhist monastery north of San Francisco that maintains an organic, sustainable garden and other projects.

VENEZUELA — Work with Saleasans of Don Bosco, an organization helping in very poor areas with health and vocational work, allowed students to work directly with children in schools.

WASHINGTON, DC — LGTB advocacy in the nation's capital.

YUCATAN — Health and medical-themed work in a low-income community in the Yucatan Peninsula.