PATCHOGUE, NY – MARCH 27, 2008 – As the students at St. Joseph’s College prepare for summer vacation, the Global Studies Department at its Long Island Campus is planning a trip to the indigenous community of Sutiaba located in Leon, Nicaragua.

The purpose of their trip, which will take place in May 2008, is to start a tutoring program, in which older students will help younger students with certain subject areas. Female students will form a women’s sewing co-operative effort to create clothing that will generate income for the area. The students will also build a house, paint a school and organize a sports league for underprivileged children in the area.

In March 2007, students from the service-learning class, Latin America at the Crossroads: Moral & Cultural Perspectives from Colonization to Globalization, embarked on a trip to Nicaragua to build a one-room daycare center and playground site for the local children. In January 2008, students from the College’s chapter of Amnesty International also traveled to the region. As a result of their annual expeditions, students at St. Joseph’s College have developed a profound relationship with the people of Sutiaba and will continue to support its efforts in improving the area.

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St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Suffolk, Long Island, the College offers degrees in over 22 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Professional and Graduate Studies.