We’re re-imagining Service Learning.
We specialize in crafting relevant service trips for academic cohorts, church missions, and other socially minded citizens. Our aim is to provide transformative experiences for participants through cultural exchange and community-building projects. Our programming is driven by listening to the communities we serve with and responding to their needs.
Open Trips
Misfit Missionaries
During this trip, the Misfit Missionaries will immerse themselves in the rich Mayan culture while dedicating a week to supporting families in remote communities of the Guatemalan highlands. Together, we’ll help construct stoves for families who have been relocated from disaster-prone areas, contributing to safer living conditions. Additionally, we’ll assist in the development of the local elementary school, fostering a brighter future for the community. To round out the experience, we’ll explore breathtaking destinations such as Panajachel and Antigua Guatemala, blending meaningful service with unforgettable moments.
Concord UMC Water Treatment Trip
Members of Concord UMC will travel to Guatemala to help the community of Tzanjuyub in building a waste-water treatment plant in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan. With proper sanitation infrastructure, this community will no longer need to worry about water contamination from waste. The sanitation system helps 48 families, which is approximately 400 people. The system does not need electricity or a fuel source and technology can be maintained over generations.
Otterbein UMC Water Treatment Trip
Members of both Otterbein UMC and Good Shepherd UMC will travel to Guatemala to help the community of Tzanjuyub in building a waste-water treatment plant in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan. With proper sanitation infrastructure, this community will no longer need to worry about water contamination from waste. The sanitation system helps 48 families, which is approximately 400 people. The system does not need electricity or a fuel source and technology can be maintained over generations.
HSP Club Trip
The VCU HSP Club will spend a great week in the Guatemalan Highlands helping to build clean-burning stoves. Not only will they be physically helping these communities through stove building, but they will be helping to heal emotional wounds through relationship building.
Guatemala DEEP Trip
On this trip, our partners in service will spend a week engaging in cultural, educational, and service exchange. They will take part in a Maya ceremony and explore traditional Maya medicinal herbs, healing and mindfulness practices. This trip is an opportunity for learning, for healing, for a shift of perspective and for community growth!
Community High School Spring Break in Arizona!
Community High School will spend their spring break in partnership with the Apache community at White Mountain in Arizona, learning about and implementing strategies for sustainable food sovereignty.
Young Adult Trip
HSP and the Pace Center at VCU are partnering to create a young adult trip! Spend a week in the Guatemalan Highlands helping rebuild the Tzanjuyub and Pasquach communities who were forced to relocate three hours up in the mountains because of deadly mudslides. Not only will you be physically helping these communities through stove building, but you will be helping to heal emotional wounds through relationship building.
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Closed Trips
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Jan 6, 2024 - Jan 13, 2024
VCU Nurses Without Borders will spend a week in partnership with indigenous women, midwives, nurses & community leaders, learning about traditional Maya medicine and exploring the history of health care and healing in Guatemala. The itinerary includes cultural, educational, service, and exchange aspects. Together we will explore traditional Maya midwifery practices, medicinal herbs, healing and mindfulness practices, and new initiative to develop urban wellness centers and support for community-based doulas.
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Jan 6, 2024 - Jan 20, 2024
Dickinson College will be working with the Maya women of Asociación de Mujeres del Altiplano (AMA) in building empowered, resilient, civically engaged communities.
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Jan 27, 2024 - Feb 3, 2024
Christ the Servant will be working with the Maya women of Asociación de Mujeres del Altiplano (AMA) in building empowered, resilient, civically engaged communities.
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Feb 24, 2024 - March 2, 2024
Loyola Marymount University student leaders will work in partnership with the Apache community at White Mountain in Arizona, learning about and implementing strategies for sustainable food sovereignty.
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March 2, 2024 - March 9, 2024
Virginia Tech student leaders will work alongside HSP and the City of Richmond Public Schools to cultivate culturally relevant and responsive learning engagements. The aim is to encourage lifelong wellness by instilling in students an understanding and appreciation of our natural environment's value and the necessity of preserving it for future generations.
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March 9, 2024 - March 16, 2024
On this trip, our partners in service will learn about Mayan culture and spend a week with families from remote areas of the Guatemalan highlands. The mission of our trip is to provide transformative experiences by bringing to light cultural, economic, political, and other power relations between settler-subjects and Indigenous communities while providing financial and academic support to Indigenous-led community programming.
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March 16, 2024 - March 23, 2024
On this trip, our partners in service will learn about Mayan culture and spend a week with families from remote areas of the Guatemalan highlands. The mission of our trip is to provide transformative experiences by bringing to light cultural, economic, political, and other power relations between settler-subjects and Indigenous communities while providing financial and academic support to Indigenous-led community programming.
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March 17, 2024 - March 23, 2024
On this trip, our partners in service will learn about Mayan culture and spend a week with families from remote areas of the Guatemalan highlands. The mission of our trip is to provide transformative experiences by bringing to light cultural, economic, political, and other power relations between settler-subjects and Indigenous communities while providing financial and academic support to Indigenous-led community programming.