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Alternative Service Break

Promise Emmanuel (left), MaKenna Clinch and Ben Bentzinger assemble hygiene kits.

Huskers take Alternative Service Break trip to volunteer in K.C.

March 24, 2025

Society & Culture

UNL business and engineering students spent spring break in Uganda. The students planned, designed and built a machine that flattens used drinking straws mechanically, streamlining a process formerly done by hand. Workers at Kinawataka Women Initiatives, the organization receiving the machine, then weave the flattened straws into bags, mats, jewelry and other retail items.

Students return after spring break work in Uganda

March 29, 2016

UNL students worked with a non-profit solar installer, GRID Alternatives, to install solar panels on the roofs of low-value homes in the San Joaquin Valley as part of an alternative service break Jan. 1-10.

Students spend winter break learning, working in central California

January 22, 2014

Deadline to apply for service-learning trip extended to Dec. 6

December 4, 2013