2025 Service Trips
Registration Begins November 14th, 2024.
Read more about them below.
January 2025 Service Trip
Kissimmee, Florida
January 12th - 17th, 2025
Give Kids the World
Students will set out for Kissimmee, Florida to share their time and passion as part of volunteering at Give Kids The World (GKTW) Village. The village serves as a home away from home to families who have a child with a life-threatening illness.
After completing our registration form (link below), your deposit will hold your spot on the trip.
Number of spots remaining: 5
Non-refundable Deposit: $100
Cost: $800.00 (all included)
Trip Leader: Katherine & Shea Donahue '17
March 2025 Service Trips
Kissimmee, Florida
March 16th - 22th, 2025
Give Kids the World
Students will set out for Kissimmee, Florida to share their time and passion as part of volunteering at Give Kids The World (GKTW) Village. The village serves as a home away from home to families who have a child with a life-threatening illness.
After completing our registration form (link below), your deposit will hold your spot on the trip.
Number of spots remaining: 6
Non-refundable Deposit: $100
Cost: $900.00 (all included)
Trip Leader: Shea Donahue '17
Black Mountain, North Carolina:
March 16th - 22th, 2025
Hurricane Helene Recovery Work
Volunteers will engage in recovery work supporting individuals and families impacted by the Hurricane Helene. The damage and loss of life that extended from northwestern Florida, where the storm made landfall on September 26, 2024, to Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. The work will be hands-on building of new homes in the hard-hit areas of Ashville, North Carolina.
After completing our registration form (link below), your deposit will hold your spot on the trip.
Number of spots remaining: 6
Non-refundable Deposit: $100
Cost: $800.00 (all included)
Trip Leader: Eddie Lee '76
Biloxi, Mississippi:
March 16th - 22th, 2025
On-Going Recovery & Humanitarian Work
Livingston County CARES volunteers participating in our 41st Biloxi, Mississippi service trip on March 16-22 will be celebrating twenty years of humanitarian work and marking trip number 100 since the founding of Livingston CARES in response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. You are invited to join volunteers who were on the first Biloxi trip to work at the Back Bay Mission serving the poor and marginalized through education and empowerment, emergency assistance, and housing rehabilitation. You will have opportunities to serve in the food pantry, the soup kitchen, the Micah Day Center serving the homeless, and on housing projects. Volunteers will also do a street tour of the dozens of homes worked on during the previous 40 service trips, attend a rededication ceremony of the Livingston CARES Live Oak in the Katrina Memorial Park, and join Harrison County leaders for a special dinner celebration.
After completing our registration form (link below), your deposit will hold your spot on the trip.
Number of spots remaining: 2
Non-refundable Deposit: $100
Cost: $400.00 (flight is not included)
Trip Leader: Tom Matthews, Ed.D.
May 2025 Service Trip
Puerto Rico:
May 18th-24th, 2025
Hurricane Recovery Work
Volunteers will engage in recovery work supporting individuals and families impacted by Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Fiona. The work will be hands-on and will focus on replacing roofs on one-story homes in the San Juan area of Puerto Rico.
After completing our registration form (link below), your deposit will hold your spot on the trip.
Number of spots remaining: 5
Non-refundable Deposit: $100
Cost: $950.00 (all included)
Trip Leader: Andrew Herman, Ph.D.
The GKTW trip is a must for any student interested in volunteering with children. At GKTW, every child is dealing with a critical illness, or is a sibling to a child with a critical illness. The week these families spend at GKTW may be their only “normal” family vacation, or a lifelong wish come true. You will never forget the joy we get to witness as volunteers in both the children and their families.
–Shea Kinsella
