Mohawk Valley Teen Workcamp
Kanatsiohareke County, upstate New York, April 18-22, 2005

Workcamp participants will learn firsthand about the life and culture of Native Americans in the modern United States. Over the course of this workcamp, participants will learn about issues affecting a community of Mohawk people who have returned to the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York. This workcamp will consist of educational activities to learn about the Mohawk people as well as daily farm work. Tom Porter, leader of the community will share stories of the Iroquois Nation including prophecies and historical facts that are both spellbinding and compelling. For a story on the 2004 Mohawk Valley workcamp, visit Teen volunteers learn about Native American culture on spring 'vacation'.

Freedom Summer Workcamp: A Civil Rights Journey
Atlanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Ala., July 9-16, 2005.
For UUSC members, the fee is $275; for non-UUSC members, $295, or $500 for two family members from the same congregation. 

UUSC's Freedom Summer Workcamp will honor the courage and sacrifice of those young people who worked in Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer in 1964. In 2005 youth and adults from around the country will join us on a civil rights journey to Atlanta, Selma, Montgomery and Birmingham, where the stories told by those who were there will inspire a new generation. This Freedom Summer Workcamp: A Civil Rights Journey will conclude with a service project with Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger. Weekly activities aim to bring knowledge and rekindle the spirit to advocate for human rights in their respective communities and around the world. For further information and link to a story about the 2004 Freedom Summer Workcamp, visit Second annual civil rights journey.

UUSC Lakota Workcamp
Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, July 30 – Aug. 13, 2005. Fee: $300 per week.

UUSC will be working with the Lakota community on the Rosebud Reservation to create an intercultural exchange, while working along side the youth of the community to convert a building into a youth center. During the week, participants will take part in activities to learn about issues of economic and environmental justice. Volunteers will stay in tents during the week and share in life-changing exchanges with the Rosebud community. Participants must be 16 years old or older.

 

To register for a workcamp, or to learn more about our projects, please contact:
Nguyen Weeks, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
130 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617.868.6600; fax: 617.868.7102; e-mail: justworks@uusc.org