project impact report 8-11-16

World Challenge is a specialist company that organises educational expeditions for young people aged
15 – 17 who are mainly from the UK, mainland Europe, the U.S, Middle East, South Africa, Australia
and New Zealand. During their expedition, the students are exposed to a number of challenges which
will help them to develop their leadership, communication and organisational skills to help them in the
future. As part of the itinerary, teams spend a few days with a local community and participate in social
and/or environmental work.
It is important to World Challenge that the
project yields results that are beneficial to the
community. In cases where there is a lot of
work to be done or a larger scale project, it is
possible that more than one group can be assigned
to the community during that year or in
future years. Both the community and the
team can and should mutually benefit from
this experience; previous communities have
found their experience with a team to be
memorable and consequently sometimes
communication between the two groups lasts
for many years after the initial contact.
This was a huge experience for the challengers:
working along with the host community, they were
able to experience first-hand their daily challenges
and how the people deal with them, and keep
smiling. EL Richard Hirst
Throughout the homestay and the work at the
project we were fully exposed to the local lifestyle
and were invited to partake freely of it. It was a
great learning experience and the team left with a
greater understanding of some of the trials and
tribulations of living and working in such a community.
EL Graham Carlson
The village itself was fascinating, showing how
people from different faith and cultural backgrounds
can live side by side without tension. SL
Guy Westoby