Alternative Break Experience

Alternative Break Experience (ABE) trips are 6-day 5-night service-immersion trips where students choose to spend their spring break in other regionally located cities, to serve those residents through multiple community service projects. These trips are student-led with a staff support system. Students will participate in 20 hours of hands-on community service while also getting a chance to explore the city. 

The Alternative Break Experience trips have proven to be a high impact practice. These trips not only positively affect the residents of those communities, but also positively impact our students and our Memphis community because the students come back with a fresh pair of eyes and a greater passion and desire to do service in their own community as well. These opportunities build our students into socially responsible and active global citizens.

The program fee is $200 and covers transportation costs, lodging, food, supplies, and activities. 

To apply for the program, students can access the ABE application through Tiger Zone under “forms.”

For more information about the Alternative Break Experience program, please contact Rosa Perez at rperez@memphis.edu or 901.678.3963.