Brooke Petit, Southington Resident Spends Spring Break Volunteering in Peru

2012 Apr 17

Brooke Petit, a resident of Southington, CT and a member of the class of 2014 at Providence College, recently spent a week working in Peru, as part of the College's Feinstein Academic Institute's Alternative Spring Break 2012 program.

Petit was among nearly 60 Providence College students who volunteered to spend their spring break to work in 4 different locations around the world. In Peru, Petit and eleven PC students worked at an orphanage for girls and with mothers and their children, educating them on health issues. Accompanying the students on the trip was Dr. Edgar Mejía, assistant professor of Spanish at PC.

Providence College is the only college or university in the United States administered by the Dominican Friars. The Catholic, liberal arts college has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 3,900 students and offers degrees in 49 academic majors. Since 1997, Providence College has consistently been ranked among the five regional universities in the north according to U.S. News' America's Best Colleges.