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Brian Mizoguchi

Director of HAVOC
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What is HAVOC?
One of the largest student organizations, Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach, and Charity encourages students to get off their couches, get off the Hill, and get into the community centers, schools, and lives of those who would benefit from their commitment and care. At the same time, the students gain just as much as they give from the experience, sometimes more! Participation in HAVOC is a chance to put classroom learning, desire for social change, and caring together through action.

What Opportunities are Available?
The first is weekly projects. HAVOC sponsors 23 weekly projects, where groups of students go out into the community for a few hours one day a week. The second is monthly opportunities, where students can participate one day a month in organized volunteer programs. And third, HAVOC is especially proud of its larger-than-other schools-our-size, crazy, wacky and intense Alternative Spring Break program.

Who Volunteers?
More than 400 of Hamilton's 1,700 students volunteer with HAVOC each year in some capacity. Some busy students may take just a few hours one Saturday to build with Habitat for Humanity or clean and paint at a soup kitchen. Others are "varsity volunteers," who spend hours each week caring for the terminally ill or tutoring children at risk. There are three main branches to HAVOC, which are organized and led by an energetic, committed executive board.