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Bridges to Community
Bridges to Community, Inc. is a non-profit cultural exchange organization that takes volunteers to developing countries to work, learn, and reflect. Through the process of living and working with local communities on construction, health and environmental projects, Bridges promotes cross-cultural learning, a deepening awareness of our global interdependence and a commitment to the common good. Bridges to Community has brought more than four thousand North American volunteers to Nicaragua since 1993.
== Trips ==
Bridges to Community organizes and facilitates international service learning trips in which volunteers live and work in materially poor communities. Currently, efforts are being focused on trips to Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.
The goal of a Bridges to Community trip is for its participants not only to see first-hand the hardships facing a vast majority of the world's population lives, but also for the students to take action and work to improve the lives of these communities. Volunteers are encouraged to think critically about global interdependence, foreign policies, economic impact and stereotypes. Though Bridges trips are typically thought of as service trips, volunteers are encouraged to think of service as an experience of "what we can do together" rather than "what we can do for them."
Most trips to Nicaragua are 9 days in length, and include an orientation upon arriving in the host country, the experience of living in and working with a local community, and a little sightseeing. Volunteers find themselves sleeping on cots, eating staple foods, using outhouses, and most importantly, creating friendships that will lead to a greater sense of global community. Bridges volunteers are fully exposed to the realities of living in a materially poor country. As noted on the Bridges website, “We believe that it is only through this level of engagement that we can learn from and be in solidarity with our brothers and sisters living in contexts that are radically different from our own.”
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