Mark Lacek Making a Difference Through Alternative Break Program

2014 Mar 5

Mark Lacek, of Douglassville, Pa., is spending spring break working to help others in the Dominican Republic, through an Alvernia University 'Alternative Break' program. Lacek, is a junior Criminal Justice major at the University.

In the Vaya Con Dios, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, students will be volunteering at a school run by the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters, teaching children and adults from the local barrio.

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