Service Opportunities

<p>4Boston is BC's largest weekly service organization. Volunteers serve four hours each week of the academic year with community partners in the social service, healthcare, or education sectors and engage in one hour of group reflection centered on community, social justice, and spirituality.</p>

<p>Appa Volunteers is a service-immersion program committed to working with under-resourced populations in the United States via shared service and direct encounter.</p>

<p>Eagle Volunteers work with students in local schools both inside and outside of the classroom, assisting classroom work, providing tutoring support, being a pen pal, or putting together packages for children spending time in hospitals.</p>

<p>Coordinated by the Ignatian Solidarity Network, the Teach-In brings together Jesuit colleges, high schools, parishes, and others to “learn, reflect, pray, network, and advocate together.”</p>

<p>Jamaica Mustard Seed is a service trip to Jamaica over spring break during which a team of BC students volunteer at Mustard Seed Communities, a non-profit ministry committed to caring for the country’s most vulnerable individuals.</p>

<p>The Prison Arts Outreach program offers students interested in the arts and prison reform opportunities to lead art workshops at a women’s prison in Framingham, Mass.</p>

<p>Each semester, Boston College students partner with Rebuilding Together Boston to help renovate a house belonging to people unable to pay for essential home repairs and much-needed updates.</p>

<p>Relay For Life is an overnight fundraising event in which participants honor cancer survivors and those who lost their battles, and fight back against a disease that has taken too much. Over the years, Relay For Life of Boston College has raised over $2 million for a cure.</p>