Tessa Kilmer of Stanfordville participates in a service project at Renovation Alliance in Roanoke, Virginia as a part of UVM’s Alternative Spring Break Program

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Tessa Kilmer of Stanfordville participates in a service project at Renovation Alliance in Roanoke, Virginia as a part of UVM’s Alternative Spring Break Program

Tessa Kilmer participates in a service project at Renovation Alliance in Roanoke, Virginia as a part of UVM’s Alternative Spring Break Program

BURLINGTON, VT (03/22/2019)– Tessa Kilmer of Stanfordville, NY (12581), who along with 10 groups and about 100 participants, participated in the University of Vermont’s Alternative Spring Break program – a student-led, week long program that provides UVM students with an opportunity to travel and involve themselves in service-work focused around a number of social issues in communities throughout the nation.

For the week-long spring recess, Tessa traveled to Roanoke, Virginia, to work with Renovation Alliance (renovateall.org). Renovation Alliance brings volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners. We provide critical home repairs for homeowners in need in the Roanoke Valley, ensuring they can live independently in safe and healthy homes. Since operations began in 1999, Renovation Alliance has served more than 600 homeowners and their families.

For over 25 years the UVM Alternative Spring Break program has provided UVM students with service opportunities during their spring recess – including work around homelessness, hunger, urban gardening, disaster relief, environmental conservation and more. Since its start in 1991, over 3,000 students have participated in the program, providing over 120,000 hours of service to community partner organizations throughout the nation.

This year, UVM students participating in ASB traveled to 9 of states, working with over 10 organizations to complete service work throughout the week.

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The University of Vermont Department of Student Life provides students with extracurricular experiential learning, involvement, and leadership opportunities. With a variety of program areas spanning Outdoor Programs, Student Media, Leadership & Civic Engagement, Fraternity & Sorority Life, and Campus Programs – Student Life aims to connect students with communities and experiences that will supplement their academic career.

About UVM

Since 1791, the University of Vermont has worked to move humankind forward. Committed to both research and teaching, UVM professors — world-class researchers, scholars, and artists — bring their discoveries into the classroom and their students into the field. Located in Burlington, Vermont, one of the nation’s most vibrant small cities and top college towns, UVM is a Public Ivy and top 100 national research university educating 10,513 undergraduate students, 1,542 graduate students, 826 certificate and non-degree students, and 459 M.D. students in the Larner College of Medicine.

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Author: Harlem Valley News