Photo Albums: Grant Programs & Service Project Tours

Our Native Tree Planting project is located in Cachiccata, a small Andean community located just 5 minutes by car from ollantaytambo in Cusco, Peru. Here you can help us reforestate this depredated area by planting native trees which in the future will not only help the environment but will allow local villagers commerce wood, fruits and ornamental plants.

This is sometimes the first meal of the day for the children and is especially important, as many of them have to walk for over an hour a day to get to school. This is often after they have had to help their parents feed the animals and look after their younger siblings.

Adventure Life helped sponsor a holiday party for local community schools in Costa Rica. Here's a handful of pictures of the celebration.

The Maria Guarders School was awarded an Adventure Life Grant for their science lab. Funding went to the following: water and sanitary connections and materials, electric materials and connections, lab implementation materials.

Teddy Romero, one of our local Peru guides, ran a naturalist workshop for a group of school kids. Adventure Life sponsored 18 kids, ages 8 to 13, from San Borja School of Cusco. Next year we hope to make this number 50. Teddy hopes these one-on-one workshops will be instrumental in teaching local children about conservation in Peru.

The Greenberg family decided to give back to the area they were visiting in Peru. They participated in a home restoration Volunteer Service Project in Cachicatta community. They continued their tour on the Salcantay Trek where they ended on the Inca Trail at Machu Picchu ruins.

The Art Festival in Antigua, Guatemala has several goals. Our primary goal is to promote art in the associations and communities around Antigua. We began the Art Festival in 2009 and invited five community organizations to participate. Two of the associations already had art programs, but three art programs were created just so the associations could participate in the Art Festival. By holding this event, local associations are inspired to create art programs in the curriculums. In 2010, we plan to invite more local associations to participate so that they will also be inspired to create art programs for their children. A second goal is to use art to teach the importance of self-expression. Art is a very powerful form of expression and can give a voice to children and teenagers, boys and girls, indigenous and Ladinos. Children and youth living in poverty often have difficulties expressing themselves and releasing their emotions. They may turn to violence or drugs to escape their feelings. We want to teach children and youth how to express themselves in art and at the same time, create something beautiful. We hold workshops several months before the Festival to teach the associations different ways to teach art. We explain to them that we do care about technical skills, but we care more about the ability of the children to express themselves. We appreciate figurative art, but we also value abstract art that represents strong emotions or perspectives.