Today is #GivingTuesday and a great opportunity to support our Quest service trip teams, composed of our 3 Boston Public high school teams for 2023-2024:
Another Course to College – service trip to Puerto Rico
Boston Arts Academy – service trip to Cape Verde
Community Academy – service trip to The Dominican Republic
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Thank you so much!
We are on a quest to empower urban students from Boston Public Schools by helping them develop leadership skills through planning and participating in local community service as well as national or international service learning trips through a social justice lens. Imagine. Embark. Empower!
Starting in October
Starting in October
We have sponsored over 70 service trips, which have spanned three different continents and over 15 countries. We are proud of every single service trip that our teams of students and teachers execute, and look forward to expanding year after year.
Travel
Domestic and
international
Community
Local Community service with
Residents of Puerto Rico
Self-efficacy
Goals achieved for joint house renovation
We at Quest Adventures are thrilled to be offering domestic and international trips once again, following the BPS ban on student travel during the pandemic. This past spring 2023, Quest sponsored service trips to Puerto Rico for 3 outstanding school teams from Boston Arts Academy, Boston Green Academy and Brighton High. All of them volunteered with local Puerto Rican organizations to continue the effort to renovate and/or build homes as well as restore vegetation as a result of the damage caused by Hurricanes Maria and Fiona.
Boston Arts Academy
Partnering with the SBP disaster recovery organization for 6 hours a day around Santurce, the team split into two groups and worked on three different houses by doing demolition, tiling walls, painting, and other repairs. One of the days they also volunteered with a recycling group to clean the beach and surrounding campground area. We recycled over 20 bags of trash!
Boston Green Academy
This team worked with Habitantes de la Montaña (Inhabitants of the Mountain) in Toro Negro, a small community of twenty-eight homes spanning the Toro Negro River watershed in the towns of Orocovis and Ciales. The students carried pick-axes, trowels up to a community farm and spent many hours, planting Spanish Elm tree saplings that will provide much needed shade and stability for the plantation to survive.
Brighton High School
Students spent their week working with the organization, Techos “Pa la Gente (Roofs for our People) in the town of Loiza. They assisted in building new roofs for those still in need following the hurricanes, as well as working with the residents to create a sustainable community garden. They also spent a day helping Techos to organize and run a community day, filling baskets with food, setting up racks of clothing, and bonding with community members.
Habitat for Humanity- Boston Mission Hill building site Volunteer alongside Habitat’s trained construction team and partner families to help construct a home for a hardworking family in need of a safe and permanent home.
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Quest Adventures is a 501c3 non-profit organization that supports people both locally, nationally and worldwide.
With enthusiastic staff and volunteers, we are ready to support you no matter any time.