Students have an "Urban Experience" Nov. 9-10
Released: November 8, 2007
The Social Work Student Organization (SWSO) is giving students a chance to have an urban experience that will teach them more than a class could.
SWSO will travel to Milwaukee Nov. 9-10. The trip is open to all interested students and all majors. "Urban Experience is a service learning project," SWSO Secretary Beth Mentinke explained. "Friday morning we will be going to Shalom School to tutor and have some one-on-one time with the children. Friday afternoon we will be volunteering at another organization, soup kitchen, a homeless or women's shelter. On Saturday we will be doing the learning component of the trip by going to the Black Holocaust Museum."
"The trip allows students to volunteer with diverse populations and to learn about the history of discrimination in this country," Mentinke added.
Trisha Schelk, a social work major, said, "We are helping out at a lot of different places in Milwaukee, including a school, which I am really excited about because I hope to do social work in a school setting for my career someday." She attended the SWSO trip to Chicago last semester. "I really got a lot out of the trip and I felt that it was really rewarding. I hope to get the same out of the trip coming up next weekend."
SWSO has been offering the Urban Experience for the last five years. There is a trip to Milwaukee during fall semester and one to Chicago during the spring semester.
- Laura Plamann,plamannle06@uww.edu
