About 70 freshman students from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, or nearly half the class, will travel Sunday to Soledad to put up a carnival for the children of migrant farmworkers.

The project is part of the university’s service-learning and social-justice focus, which encourages students to get involved in the community.

First Year Experience coordinator and professor Vince Fitzgerald expects the trip to benefit his students.

“We want this to be a learning and eye-opening experience for them,” he said.

Staff workers from Dorothy’s Place, which coordinates many programs in the Jimenez and Camphora farm-labor camps, will help out in the event, but the majority of the carnival is planned and run by the students.

About 150 children from the camps are expected at the festivities, which will go from noon to 3 p.m. and include a bounce house, face painting, chalk art, basketball and soccer clinics, and mini-pumpkin designing.

The carnival will also have medical screening for adults, and some students will serve as translators.

The camps house 80 adults and about 200 children age 15 and under in 40 units, according to an annual census by Dorothy’s Place.