Sustainability Field Trips
Sustainability field trips
Give your students a better understanding of real-world issues while equipping them with the knowledge and skills to positively change the world.
Join one of our sustainability-focused trips in Latin America to connect students with environmental and social projects that are making a real difference.
Your students will explore new and exciting destinations, collaborate with locals on inspirational projects, and develop the interdisciplinary skills to be able to create their own sustainable project.
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Benefits of our sustainability field trips
Real-world experience
Work with inspirational real-world grassroots projects run by pioneering locals.
Gain a global outlook
Develop global mindfulness by experiencing vastly different cultures and extraordinary environments.
Develop transferable skills
Gain essential interdisciplinary skills highly desired by the world’s top universities and future employers.
Learn with a purpose
Students will develop a greater understanding of global issues and learn how to create a sustainable project at home.
Sustainable experiences to inspire your students
Ecuador: Conservation of the Amazon
We take students into the Ecuadorian Amazon where they will meet an inspirational local who is single handedly reforesting vast swatches of native rainforest. On this Ecuador trip, students get their hands dirty by planting trees alongside indigenous communities, all the time learning about the importance of protecting the Lungs of the Earth.
Colombia: Sustainable farming in Medellin
Students learn the importance of sustainable farming and its effect on the planet as well as our health. We visit a farm in Medellin, Colombia where students meet a traditional farmer, visit his amazing farm and learn about organic agriculture. Afterwards they’ll don their aprons in a unique sustainable cooking challenge.
Peru: Composting in Cusco
One of the biggest problems facing Cusco is its waste management issues. On our Peru trip, students meet a truly inspirational young woman who has created a sustainable recycling and composting plant to boost the city's eco credentials. Students visit the site and learn the science behind creating good compost. They’ll also learn how the site works with the community to educate and scale its impact.
Mexico: Social gastronomy & production
Students learn exactly how various foods are made with a visit to an inspirational women’s food Coop in Mexico. Here, you’ll learn about the value we must place upon food processes and explore how we can change our eating habits to benefit our health and the planet. In this hands-on workshop, students will make their own cinnamon, coffee and honey depending on the season.
Galapagos: Protecting Marine Life
As well as channeling their inner Charles Darwin by learning about evolution, students join conservation projects in the Galapagos. During our sustainability field trip in the Galapagos, students help eradicate invasive species, feed the native Galapagos tortoise population. We also take part in a microplastic investigation workshop.
Reforestation in Patagonia, Chile
Students will join a forest reforestation project that has led the restoration of nearly 400 acres of forest. This has supported the protection of 23 native species from expanding human settlements, logging, and agriculture that had long degraded the ecosystem.
Frequently asked questions
What is a sustainability field trip?
A sustainability field trip is a journey that teaches students about real-world issues relating to the environment and society.
A well-planned field trip will allow students to experience and work with impactful sustainable local projects working to solve global problems. This experience can act as the spark for students to continue their learning of sustainable development in order for them to become impactful global citizens.
What do you learn on a sustainability field trip?
Students will learn how global issues are being solved at a local level. These issues relate to pressing world issues like climate change, Human Rights, Gender Equality, Extreme Poverty and many more. Students will gain real-life experience working with impactful projects and develop the necessary competencies and interdisciplinary skills to positively change society.
Where is the best place to go on a field trip?
You can travel anywhere in the world to find experiences relating to sustainability. It is important to identify the projects, communities, and environments that will impact your students the most. It’s also important to recognise that students are not there to solve issues in other countries and communities. Alternatively you should consider the mantra of Think Global, Act Local.
Who will be leading our field trip?
Our tour leaders are not just guides; they are educators. Your students will learn how to develop interdisciplinary skills under the guidance of our tour leaders. Students will also come face to face with innovative local pioneers, social entrepreneurs, award-winning conservationists, scientists and many more.
How many students can go?
We have a minimum of 6 students per trip up to 30 and beyond (we’d divide the group in this case). If you have a group size in mind, just let us know.
How do I know learning goals will be met?
Our team of experts have developed every sustainability field trip around a Theory of Change, allowing us to measure the impact of each trip. We offer in-depth post-trip impact reports too.
What global issues do students learn about?
Students learn about a variety of global issues on our sustainability field trips. We visit projects aligned to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), these include urban gardening, reforestation, Human Rights, Gender Equality workshops.
What is included in a sustainability field trip?
We include everything from the accommodation to the food and tour leaders. We include project visits, pre and post-trip learning material and also UNLIMITED expert advice afterwards for any students wanting to develop their pathway into sustainable development.
Where will we be staying?
This depends on the destination you choose. We are dedicated to choosing locally-owned accommodations that give students a feel of traditional life. These means students will be staying in hotels, hostels, eco lodges, farms and even local houses.
Think global; act local
Your students will use their invaluable real-life experience visiting impactful sustainable projects as the bedrock of their learning.
We’ll then equip them with problem-solving, communication, design-thinking skills to begin their own project back home.
Get in touch with Kagumu to learn more about our sustainability-themed trips.
