Honduras Mission Trip 2007


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CEE 4611 Course Description:
This service-learning course is an outgrowth of the spring semester Senior Capstone Design Project in Structural Engineering.  For the past seven years, students in that course have worked on various structural designs for a Catholic home for abused and abandoned boys in Honduras.  Each Spring Break, a portion of the class has traveled to Honduras with the professors and a few CE underclassmen on an associated mission trip in which they work on the construction of those designs.  The mission trip is co-sponsored by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the College of Engineering, and incorporates all aspects of a service learning experience (preparation, service, reflection, and celebration). This year's project is the continuation of construction for a school on the Amigos de Jesus site.

Course Objectives:

1.  Participate in a service activity related to Civil Engineering.

2.  Develop an understanding of another culture.

3. Effectively communicate, in written and verbal form, the outcomes of the service experience.

 

About Amigos De Jesus
 

Amigos De Jesus, a Catholic Orphanage in Posas Verdes, Honduras, was started in 1997 by Sister Teresita, SSND a Honduran Notre Dame Nun, Christine and Anthony Granese, residents of Norristown, PA, and Father Dennis O'Donnell, Rector of Malvern Retreat House.  The mission of Amigos De Jesus is:  

“To provide hope for the street children of Honduras. Hope that allows them to grow intellectually, emotionally, physically, socially, and spiritually.”

 The orphanage rests on 70 acres of fertile land in the Northwest corner of a mountainous section of Honduras, about a two hour ride from San Pedro Sula airport, near the border of Guatemala.

For more information, see the Amigos de Jesus web site.

 

Group Mission Statement

Upon our journey to Honduras we will continue to build upon the ever expanding relationship between Villanova University and Amigos de Jesus. As Villanova engineers and ambassadors, we desire to grow within ourselves as well as with each other in our efforts to aid the children of Amigos. We promise to open our hearts to those who will find comfort in our friendship, and our minds to the amazing cultural experiences that await us. It is with vigor that we eagerly return with the motto of Amigos close to our hearts, “Follow the cross and you will find hope.

To view personal mission statements, please click here.


2007 Trip Participants

 

Villanova Seniors:

Bryan Enslein Carlos Molina Hutt Nicole Needle
Lea Pineda Lindsay Rehl Annie Schweihs

Villanova Juniors:

Jon Collins Zach Harris Katie Hearn Allison Trinkle

Villanova Graduate Students:

Matthew Costantino

Villanova Faculty:

Dr. David Dinehart Dr. Shawn Gross

Special Guest: