Howard University students board the bus Saturday morning from Howard for the ride to Detroit, where they will spend their Spring Break working on literacy by tutoring students and adults. An estimated 47 percent of adults are functionally illiterate. Nearly 300 Howard students boarded buses Saturday morning for the ride as well to Chicago and New Orleans. Meanwhile, scores of students will be working on homelessness and mentoring in the Washington area. In New Orleans, more than 100 undergraduate and law students will help local residents with their legal problems, many the result of Hurricane Katrina. In Chicago, students will work with local schools and with legislators to decrease gun violence, which annually claims the lives of hundreds of citizens there.
More than 100 Howard University undergraduate and law students board two buses Saturday morning for the 24-hour ride to New Orleans, where they will help residents there with their legal problems as part of the university's annual Alternative Spring Break. Another 100 Howard students loaded onto buses headed to Chicago and Detroit. In Detroit, where an estimated 47 percent of adults are functionally illiterate, students will work on helping adults and students learn to read. In Chicago, students will work with local schools and with legislators to decrease gun violence, which annually claims the lives of hundreds of citizens there. Meanwhile, scores of students will be working in Washington, D.C., on homelessness and mentoring junior high school students.
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