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Avg. for March is 77 high
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Mision de Popo | UCF Spring Break 2009 Trip to Amecameca, Mexico |
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Spring Break 2009 Details on price and dates coming summer 2008.
Mission Project Popocatépetl is a snow-capped volcano that rises nearly 18,000 feet above sea level, about 65km outside of Mexico City. And this is the site of our spring break misión de popo. A woman who lives on the base of Popo named Julieta has big dreams. She sees firsthand everyday the grip poverty has on the locals. To combat this, Julieta is trying to build a children’s camp and organic farm. Here she can provide school, church, and a self-supporting Christian community. In March 2007, UCF established a relationship with Julieta and others in her village. UNC Charlotte students ran power grids during spring break and brought electricity in where it was needed badly. In 2008 we continued the good work. As the children grow, they will prosper under the leadership of people like Julieta and those who help her. You, too, can be part of this vision in 2009.
Sign-Up Will be up summer 2008.
Experience No experience is necessary! You can even learn valuable home repair and life skills as you help provide hands on labor to area churches, clinics and casas.
Mexico Travel
Medical / Health Info UNC Charlotte requires of its students the following: DTP (Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis) or Td (Tetanus, Diptheria); MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella); Polio or poliomyelitis; PPD or TB skin test (based on foreign travel). Make sure you are up to date with at least these. The following you may want to talk to a doctor about: · Hepatitis A or immune globulin, b/c of food or water contamination. · Hep B is not necessary b/c we will not be providing medical care · Typhoid vaccine · Remember don't play with dogs, etc. b/c most are not vaccinate for Rabies · CDC is currently showing Malaria risk in the Mexican states of states of Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sinaloa - none of which we will enter. We will be staying in the state of Mexico and we will fly into the Federal District. If you are concerned you can let your MD know and he or she will help you through this. · During our Saturday meeting we will go through details on preventing health problems while in Mexico. If you go to a doctor for updates, ask for a copy of the latest Travax report for Mexico which you can have on hand. Also the CDC has a great website with lots of info: http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx
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Cancellation / Interruption
· You suffer an unforeseeable Injury, sickness or death. The injury or sickness must be so disabling as to reasonably cause the trip to be cancelled or interrupted. A physician must recommend that due to the severity of your condition, it is medically necessary that you cancel or interrupt the trip. · Your principal residence is made uninhabitable by fire or flood · You are directly involved in an automobile accident, substantiated by a police report, while en route to departure · You are quarantined, required to serve on a jury, or subpoenaed · Our host is hospitalized or dies · A Terrorist Act occurring in the city of your final destination, or a Terrorist Act that prevents you from reaching Your final destination. · The United States Department of State issues a travel warning recommending that travel to your final destination during the time you are scheduled to travel, be avoided. · A Natural Disaster occurs which causes a complete cessation of travel services at the point of departure or destination. · An airport terminal was closed due to a documented security breach. |