Mary Becker of Swansea, Mass., Completes Weeklong Service Trip to Haiti

2014 Jan 30

Mary Becker of Swansea, Mass., recently completed a weeklong service trip to Haiti as part of Saint Joseph's College of Maine's International Service Trips, in conjunction with Partners in Development (PID) of Ipswich, Mass. In Haiti, a team of faculty and staff members and 16 students spent the week working on the foundations of two houses in Blanchard and Canaan, just outside Port-au-Prince, regions especially hard hit by the 2010 earthquake, and nursing students assisted doctors and nurses with hundreds of patients in a health clinic.

Becker is a nursing student at the college.

Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic liberal arts college, providing a supportive, personalized and career-focused education for more than 100 years. From its 430-acre campus on the shore of Sebago Lake, the college offers more than 40 undergraduate programs to a population of approximately 1,000 students. Saint Joseph's College Online provides certificates, undergraduate and advanced degrees for working adults through an online learning program. For more, visit www.sjcme.edu.