Quest Overseas - Gap Year Travel

With our Villa Maria group having left the project last week, the local staff are getting back to the business of running the school now that term has started. Good old Lucho however took the time to put together this video, to remember the good times - thanks for a great month!

Click here to apply to join our Villa Maria team next year

One way to spend your gap year I guess - please don't though!

A massive congratulations to Julian and all the team in Tanzania!!!

They have recently been awarded FIRST PRIZE in the Pan African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education in Tanzania.

What's the problem?  In Tanzania Primary education is free, yet less than 50% of children attend school, due to some families being unable afford uniform, lunch, books, and in some cases there is no school close enough.  The Tanzanian Government are also closing schools which are in need of refurbishment.

How you can help:  By renovating schools, building class rooms and staff accommodation, and setting up a sustainable school farm to help provide income to keep the school going.  Children are also taught valuable farming techniques, many of them will not continue to secondary school and this gives them valuable skills.  Quest began working in Tanzania in 2002, helping rural Tanzanian communities improve their existing education, health facilities and where possible, to provide additional infrastructure to further this aim.

If the huge demand for education that exists across Africa is to be met, it will require new and entrepreneurial models which can be replicated and taken to scale.

If you wish to volunteer on this project please click the link

A little more information for those of you that have read to this point stay with it, it is impressive!

Thankfully no Vanilla Ice or Jedward here, just a very hardcore Quest team taking on the Andes of Bolivia, very cool!

Thanks to Eduardo from Bolivian Mountains for putting this video together.

Click here to find out how to join our summer expedition in the Andes

With just two days to go for our team at the project in Villa Maria Peru, we thought you'd like to see a snippet of the work they've been doing over there - it is hard work, honest!

Thanks to local movie maker Luis Spielberg (and producer Nena) for putting this together.

Click here to find out how to join our Villa Maria team next year