Program Description
Solidarity-Immersion Trips invite students to live Rockhurst University’s Jesuit mission, a mission articulated in the former Jesuit Superior General Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach’s seminal 1997 speech, a portion of which is etched into the stone of Rockhurst’s bell tower:
“Students must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering, and engage it constructively.”
These weeklong experiences, which involve cultural immersion activities, relationship-building, and daily prayer and reflection, move students to a deeper understanding of the gospel’s call to solidarity and justice. Extensive trip preparation and follow-up lead students toward the life-long path of becoming women and men for and with others. Destinations for 2024-2025 will include:
January 5-11, 2025 (Christmas Break)
Belize
- Partner Agency: Hand in Hand Ministries
- Focus: housing insecurity, wealth transfer
January 17 – 20, 2025 (MLK Day Weekend)
Civil Rights Solidarity-Immersion (Alabama)
- Legacy Museum (Montgomery, AL)
- Edmund Pettus Bridge (Selma, AL)
- Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL)
March 8-15, 2025 (Spring Break)
Dominican Republic
- Partner Agency: Institute for Latin American Concern
- Focus: rural health outreach (nursing and pre-health)
March 9 – 15, 2025 (Spring Break)
Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor (Ossining, New York)
- working in a garden that supplies a local food pantry
- rehabbing houses
- making a Midnight Run (mobile feeding/clothing station) to New York City
- serving a meal at a facility that houses women and children escaping domestic violence
Apply for trips NOW using THIS FORM. Scholarships are available. Email Bill Kriege, Director of Campus Ministry, with questions.