Ronald Volkmer Immersion Trip

For a full week in early January, you’ll travel to the Dominican Republic with about a dozen Creighton law students and professor David Weber. During your time there, you’ll visit the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic and the attorney general to learn how the Dominican judicial system functions. You’ll take fieldtrips in and around Santiago, including to the barrio of Cienfuegos, an office combating domestic violence, a cultural center, and the Catholic University Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCCM). Past trips have also included visiting:

• “Bateys,” which are company towns where sugar workers live
• Dominican jails
• North Shore
• Dajabón, a city located on the border with Haiti
• Trappist monastery outside of Jarabacoa

You’ll spend time in peasant farming communities, or “campesinos,” performing service projects, from cleaning up beaches to working on playgrounds to painting classrooms. You’ll spiritually evolve and grow in your faith through reflection and prayer time in the St. Omer Chapel at the Institute for Latin American Concern (ILAC) Center outside Santiago.