MKA Students Help Build Homes in Guatemala

For eighteen MKA Upper School students, the recent Spring Break provided an opportunity to engage in a hands-on community service learning project whilst experiencing another culture.

Together with four faculty chaperones, the students traveled to Antigua, Guatemala for the first week of Spring Break to help build homes for four local families with the From Houses to Homes organization. In addition to immersing themselves in the rigors of daily construction, the students enjoyed wonderful weather, hiked a volcano and made smores in lava, returning to New Jersey excited and tired from doing great work.

As part of MKA's Global Experience, the trip to Guatemala fulfilled all the requirements of a program that strives to “engage each student personally and intellectually with the world” and encourages students to build bridges between themselves and people in other places through language acquisition and cultural, geographical, and historical knowledge.

Faculty captured the week in photography that can be enjoyed from the links below:

Click here to see Ben Rich's photos

Click here to see Dennis Hu's photos