Trips taken by Bonner Scholars during the academic year 2002-2003

• Navajo Nation in Arizona to tutor, help in the classroom and learn about the local culture (trip arranged by Amizade)—Ferrum College
• Pontiac, MI—Oberlin College
• Kissimmee Prairie Preserve in south Florida to work with park biologists gathering data on grasshopper sparrows and setting up nets. The Bonners also did painting and campground maintenance—Warren Wilson College
• Washington, DC to research issues of poverty and homelessness by serving meals to homeless at N Street Village and working at ASPAN (Arlington Street People Assistance Network) as well as with a lawyer on immigration issues at Just Neighbors (legal assistance for immigrants), Capital Area Food Bank, and Metro Teen AIDS (an outreach organization running education programs)—Berea College
• Scottie's Place, Peterstown, WV, a camp for homeless children, to work on projects framing a pavilion and completing a fence around the camp property—Concord College.
• New York City to work at a variety of homeless shelters through the Youth Service Opportunities Project—Emory and Henry College
• Tahlequah, OK to work with a social services director employed by Cherokee Nation Headquarters, on projects at a senior nutrition center as well as other service projects—Maryville College
• Reynosa, Mexico to work on house construction and in a medical clinic through Faith Ministry, Inc—Rhodes College
• South Caroline coast (Penn Cultural Center at St. Helena) to work on
Hunting Island gathering loggerhead turtle eggs to take to a hatchery,
painting fence around lighthouse and additional work at the Hunting Island
Nature Center—Mars Hill
•Big Creek People in Action, Caretta, WV (McDowell County) to work in
public high and middle school and on a construction project—University of Richmond
•Brethren Service Center, New Windsor, MD to volunteer with Emergency
Response sorting clothing and with SERRV International pricing artisans'
crafts—Hood College
•Philadelphia to work at an inner-city elementary school tutoring and to
accompany children on an educational field trip—DePauw University
• McDowell County to work at Caretta Community Center on repairs and to serve at Bartley Elementary School in a "reading festival"—West Virginia Wesleyan College
• Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana to work with member
tribes of the Dakota Nation, planting a community garden, painting
a wellness center, preparing meals—Union College
• Atlanta, GA to work with the East Lake Community Foundation and
specifically the Drew Charter School, where students help in classroom
and after-school program. Also to work with the East Lake Junior Golf
Academy—Wofford College
• Asheville, NC to partner with Mountain Housing Opportunities, which
works to improve housing for the poor. They worked with MHO's emergency home repair division.—Davidson College
• Caretta, WV to work at the Caretta Community Center laying a tile floor—College of the Ozarks
• Sneedville, TN in rural Appalachia to work with the Jubilee Project,
working with children in their schools and processing organic food—Earlham College
•Edisto Island, SC to work with the coastal Gullah people on building and
restoration projects, on envirionmental projects, and in the local school
system—Berry College
•Washington, DC to work with Martha's Table (food preparation and clothing distribution), So Others Might Eat (food preparation), and US Dream Academy (tutoring and mentoring at risk children)—Waynesburg College
• Charleston, SC to do construction/repair work projects through the United
Methodist Relief Center—Carson-Newman College