We have spent the last decade building deep relationships in our core destinations because they provide us invaluable access to global issues, unique communities, incredible environments, dynamic history, and more. The places we visit are safe, located near and far to allow for trips during different breaks in our school calendar, and ideal for our curriculum and approach to learning and living as part of the global community.

We use robust risk assessment and trip management protocols to maximize the safety of what we do. Our insurance provider has cited us as a best practice example of how to offer trips like the ones we run. We return to the same places year-after-year to make sure our trip leaders really know the people and places and we have a well-trained faculty that includes a dozen Wilderness First Responders and dozens of experienced trip leaders. We also engage in domestic place-based programming that further prepares our team. Plus, we partner with people who are from all of the places we visit – there really is nothing like local knowledge! And, each year, we review and adapt.