On May 21th – 30th InterVarsity staff members Nick Johnson (GA State), Berry Long (Area Director, North Florida), and Kim Koi (Area Director, Central Florida) traveled with fifteen students to the village of Neply, Haiti on an InterVarsity Global Urban Plunge. The group worked in partnership with Alpha Omega Psi, a local Haitian fraternity (www.AQPsi.org), to bring running water to village families.
Nick and Liz Johnson have been working in partnership with Alpha Omega Psi for three years. This year the crew laid plumbing to bring running water to 10 homes. Along the way students learned the culture and history of Haiti, a theology of justice, and creative options for helping end poverty in the world.
The goals of the Haiti Global Urban Plunge are fourfold:
1) establish partnership with local village and service fraternity by building relationships and providing a valuable service to community
2) understand issues of poverty and God’s heart for the poor
3) challenge American students to become servants and learners while out of their comfort zone
4) empower students to use their majors and influence as vehicles to change the world
James, a student from Georgia State, said of the trip,
“I think we really got a chance to live among the people of Haiti. We were exposed to their hopes, frustrations, and dreams for themselves and their nation. This trip brought some very serious, life shifting realizations about myself. I will go back to my campus and see it as a great resource that has not been used to its full potential.”
James hopes to go on a longer global project and take what he learned back to campus by influencing his friends, getting involved in a local ministry, and using his major to end poverty. James is also considering living with the poor after graduation.
Link to facebook video, footage from inaugural trip in 2007: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?archive=1#/video/video.php?v=556547631947&oid=44841504316
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