Service Program
The Gonzaga Service Program is designed to provide service experiences that increase in depth and intensity as the student matures. The Program provides significant volunteer opportunities for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, culminating in a forty hour service requirement for seniors. What begins as a sheltered exposure with the poor for freshmen who help out at The McKenna Center and mentor at the Washington Jesuit Academy, grows into an increased affiliation with society’s marginalized. The program brings sophomores on McKenna’s Wagon - a soup kitchen on wheels - and juniors on Food & Friends - an outreach to sick and homebound neighbors. There are also several week-long opportunites during spring break and summer. As part of their Social Justice course senior year, students will complete a forty hour commitment to community service. This enables them to reflect on direct contact with the poor and needy through tutoring, food preparation and distribution, and being present to those in need. Our hope is that through the opportunieis and support we provide, our students will advance toward their goal of becoming men for others.