Last week, a group of nine students from the University of Wisconsin â?? Madison drove 1,500 miles from the stiff 25-degree chill of the Midwest to Brownsville â?? but they didnâ??t come for the weather.
â??We came on a service learning trip,â? said Cathy Collentine, a 21-year-old political science and Spanish double major at the university. â??But weâ??re really down here for personal learning. Education is the only way to create change.â?
The group of students is part of an organization called Action Environmental Justice, which aims to create more equitable conditions for people living in areas under environmental distress.