Sponsored Trips

New 2011-2012 School Teams

1.Boston International Newcomers Academy

Theme:   How cultural experiences shape who you are

Location:  La Push, Washington at Quileute Native American reservation

Project:    clean- up projects with elders and youth in the community; Cultural immersion in customs and traditional ceremonies with Quileute people.

 

2. Jeremiah Burke High School

Theme:  Bridging differences while celebrating similarities

Location:  Cape Verde:  Praia and Fogo Islands

Project:    Painting classrooms ;  academic support in ELL; Donation of school supplies.

 

3.  English High

Theme: Building relationships in Nicaragua, cement block by block

Location:   Managua, Nicaragua

Project: Build a home for a homeless Nicaraguan family

4. Fenway High

Theme:  Defending and Promoting Children’s Rights locally and globally

Location:  El Hogar del Amor y Esperanza Orphanage in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Project:    Constructing part of new dining hall, painting classrooms, teaching English to children

 

5. John D. O’Bryant High School

Theme: The Power of Education

Location:  Jinotega, Nicaragua

Project:  Teaching Spanish literacy and English in Community Center; Lead baseball and soccer clinics


 

6.  West Roxbury Academy

Theme: Hope for Haiti: Supporting Haitian children living in the Dominican Republic

Location:  Cabarete, Dominican Republic

Project: Tutor Haitian children, assist with clean-up project in Haitian Batey.


 

2010-2011 Teams

1. BOSTON INTERNATIONAL HIGH

Theme: Building our American Dream: Connecting local & national communities

Destination: Boston and Washington, D.C.

Project: Help build houses in Boston and Washington, D.C. with Habitat for Humanity

Educational Goal: To support English Language Learners from different cultures, countries, and language backgrounds by exploring what it means to be a community within the context of the changing “American Dream.”

 

2. Boston Public District Schools

Theme:  From our Village to Yours:  Boston to Peru

Destination:  Cuzco, Peru

Project:  To design and implement a project that is based on the real needs of both our Boston Community and the Cuzco community, focusing on  a commitment and connection to both local and international service.

Goal: To partner with local organizations that serve our community, especially the youth in Boston and in Cuzco.  They will volunteer at the Greater Boston Food Bank as well as Community Servings, Casa Nueva Vida, and Cradles to Crayons in Jamaica Plain.  In Cuzco the group will volunteer at a local orphanage called St. Judas Tadeo.

3. Curley K-8

Theme: Teen Challenge:  Restorative practices, Restorative justice

Destination: St. Croix

Project: To renovate another part of the Boys and Girls Club and participate in an experiential environmental learning project with St. Croix students.

Educational Goal: to partner with students at the Boys and Girls Club in St. Croix and, together, implement new restorative practices while building relationships, and exploring common teen issues of both Curley and St. Croix students. Also to study environmental issues in St. Croix & Boston and develop an understanding of the interconnectedness of the world environment.

4. Fenway High School

Theme: Hermandad: Volver y Corresponder

Destination: The Dominican Republic

Project:  To continue last year’s work, in collaboration with the DREAM Project, on the community center by building shelves, chairs, painting and teaching classes in Art, ELA, and Technology.

Goal: to return to the community center that Fenway students built and work within the Dominican-Haitian community to develop closer relationships with local residents.  Also to explore issues of identity, and basic human rights, such as citizenship, nationality, education, healthcare, and sanitary living conditions and work together to become part of the solutions.

5. East Boston High

Theme: Transforming challenges into opportunities

Destination: New Orleans

Project: To help victims of Hurricane Katrina by building/renovating their house with

Habitat for Humanity

Goal: To explore how racism affected how decisions were made before, during and after Katrina. Also, to explore how Habitat is helping to provide better housing & safer communities for low-income people.

6. Urban Science Academy

Theme: Face to Face: Unveiling The Legacy of Racism

Destination: St. Croix

Project: To build relationships between Urban Science students and St. Croix students via blog, a guided study of racism, interviews and volunteering together at the Queen Louise Home for Children.

Educational Goal: To partner with students from Central Complex High School in St. Croix and help both groups understand how St. Croix and the U.S. legacies of slavery and institutional racism continue to affect the education system, economy, and government.

2010


1. Team Ghana – Boston International High School
Donated a water tank to Essikado Hospital, awarded a scholarship to a high school graduateExplored present day implications of the slave trade and colonization of Africa.

2. Team New Orleans – English High School
Renovated homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina with Habitat for Humanity

3. Team Dominican Republic – OBryant High School
Renovated homes and the local community center in Haitian community

2009

1. Team St. Croix – Another Course to College High School
Painted exterior of Frederiksted Boys and Girls Club.
Conducted activities and tutorials at St. Mary’s Big Island Camp

2. Team Dominican Republic – Boston International High School
Cleared land and constructed a park for both Dominicans and Haitians.

3. Team St. Croix – Burke High School
Tutored children and led activities at St. Mary’s Big Island Camp

4. Team St. Croix – Curley K – 8
Renovated the interior of Frederiksted Boys and Girls Club
Tutored elementary school children and led recreational activities at the Boys and Girls Club

5. Team New Orleans – English High School
Renovated homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina with Habitat for Humanity

2008

1. Team Guatemala – Another Course to College High School
Built 2 houses in Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity

2. Team St. Croix – Boston International High School
Repaired and painted fence surrounding the Queen Louise Home for Children
Built sand box and outdoor swing set and conducted activities with the children

3. Team Dominican Republic – Boston International High School
Renovated housing in the Haitian community

4. Team St. Croix – Curley K – 8
Participated in beach clean up project at East End Marine Park
Volunteered at the Queen Louise Home for Children

5. Team Puerto Rico – Media and Technology High School
Renovated a center near the rainforest.

Quotations

“At the beginning of this trip it was about the community service hours; in the end the trip was about making sure people had a place to sleep at night.“ ~ Edwin Gonzalez, Team New Orleans-English High >> more