Student Volunteers
The student volunteer program is at the core of SCA’s plan to teach through building and build through teaching. Student volunteers learn a range of skills while working on building facilities for future student volunteers to use. In addition to building projects, recent student volunteers helped organize community events, taught arts workshops, and participated in field trips to Ojinaga, The Chinati Foundation, The McDonald Observatory, and Big Bend National Park. Living
communally, working with each other, and with the
local community, volunteers will learn practical
skills and develop their leadership and teamwork
abilities. This lived training is augmented by
educational programs that connect the work
to concepts of ecology, construction, and holistic design. By instilling these
values and equipping young people with practical
skills and experience, SCA aims to send resident
volunteers back to their communities motivated
and empowered to enact positive change and more
fully realize their own potentials.

