Lessons learned while on break from school

TownOnline.com - Local News: Lessons learned while on break from school:

"Alison Eromin spent her spring break fixing the broken homes and hearts of those impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Stationed in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans to help rebuild a nearby home devastated by the storm, the 20-year-old Scituate resident and student at Hampshire College in Amherst said her experience was like no other.

Eromin saw it on the news, read about it in the papers, and heard stories of the tragedies that followed the hurricanes - Katrina and Rita - along the Gulf Coast. But to be there first hand, speak to the people who lived through it, and know that she helped make a difference, was what she credits in changing her own life.

'I wanted to try and do something meaningful on my spring break,' she said. 'And when the hurricane happened, I knew that I wanted to help.'
Eromin traveled to New Orleans with 73 other Hampshire College students aboard four minivans and two cars. They met with members of a grassroots organization known as the Common Ground Collective - a community-initiated volunteer group in the area that provides relief for the victims of hurricane disasters."