Tag Archive for Haiti

Clark community mourns and remembers Amanda Mundt ’14

Student, three others killed in Haiti crash (July 22) – An update from the Office of the President: We wish to inform you that the Mundt family has made arrangements for a service to honor Amanda Mundt and her aunt, Diane Mundt. Calling hours will be held at Douglass Funeral Service, 87 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass.,…

Clark students, faculty plan return to Haiti over Thanksgiving break

Twenty-two Clark University students will spend their Thanksgiving break in a distinctly non-Norman Rockwell setting as they engage in a field course to help develop sustainable agriculture projects with staff and students from the University of Notre Dame d’Haiti (UNDH) school of agronomy in Les Cayes.  The course, part of Clark’s Haiti Relief Initiative, serves as…

Students lend hands, minds during spring break

Thirty Clark University students didn’t head home to recharge their batteries or spend time relaxing in the sun this week, during Spring Break 2010. These students and faculty are spending time in Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua and South Dakota, building houses and helping humanitarian aid organizations. Regardless of what one would call these trips—“service learning,” “social entrepreneurship” or “alternative spring breaks”—one thing is for certain: they are anything but restful.