Travel Articles: Grants

Adventure Life was a contributing sponsor of $1,000 to Soft Landing Missoula's third annual World Refugee Day Community Celebration and Soccer Tournament. Held at Fort Missoula, the event got lucky this year with sunny, clear skies - a perfect day for the community to come together and celebrate Missoula's embrace of refugees. Soft …

Each year, Garden City Harvest employs teens from the Missoula area who struggle with significant personal challenges. Garden City's Youth Development Program aims to give these teens the opportunity to work outdoors in a farm environment, teaching them social and life skills, such as teamwork, problem solving and critical thinking. The …

ASCRIGERE Ministry of Love made a proposal to Adventure Life for an educational program for local teens. Adventure Life accepted the proposal as a worthy cause, and presented the organization with a grant!

Adventure Life Grant Program provides funding to build the Dende Da Serra Waldorf School Library

June 20th is World Refugee Day - a day we remember those around the globe who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence. Adventure Life was one of the sponsors for a Soccer Tournament & Community Celebration this past weekend put on by Soft Landing Missoula - http://softlandingmissoula.org. The …

Adventure Life has partnered up with Taung Gone village committee in Myanmar, building a water supply system from the closest water resource outside of the village to the center of the community of 120 families.

Adventure Life travelers visited the Kien Giang Orphanage in Vietnam where their adopted son was born. The center provides for approximately 68 orphans. The family visited and brought donations of pens, pencils, notebooks, rice, milk, sugar, salt, oil, and instant noodles for center. Adventure Life provided additional funding in order to meet …

Long Way Home currently is educating students through 9th grade and has finally been given permission from the Guatemalan Ministry of Education to open high school in 2018. Our current middle school teachers are creating an entirely new curriculum based on the scientific method and building critical thinking skills. Here in Comalapa, the only …

Adventure Life provided a grant to RED Sustainable Travel in Mexico for their tourism workshop. During a two-day, participatory workshop, RED staff traveled to communities to lay the groundwork for development of tourism as a sustainable alternative in the community. Participants expressed their desire to develop tourism as a vehicle for positive …

Adventure Life has had a long standing partnership with Mantay Shelter in Cusco, Peru. The shelter provides a safe place for young pregnant women who have been victims of domestic violence. They stay at the shelter and learn new skills to provide for their families in the future. Adventure Life approved a grant for funding to help with unsafe and …

The Maria Guarders School in Ecuador 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.

The non-profit organization, Long Way Home, receives an Adventure Life grant to help complete construction of a K-12 school buildings in Guatemala. The school is unique in that it is being built with re-purposed materials such as earth-packed tires, inorganic trash-filled plastic bottles and earth-filled feed bags

Through Adventure Life's Grant Project the Mantay Shelter in Cusco, Peru was able to make security modifications to their facility. The Mantay Shelter supports adolescent mothers in reaching a life of dignity for themselves and their children. Adventure Life travelers have the opportunity to visit Mantay while staying in Cusco on a Peru trip. …

Last month, Adventure Life teamed up with our partners in Costa Rica, to sponsor a holiday party for a group of Costa Rican children from the Turrubares Mountains. The following is from our friends in Costa Rica regarding a few details of the celebration. Looks and sounds like it was a delightful day.

On November 28, 2009 Costa Rica Reps based in …

Through the funding of their Adventure Life grant, ASCRIGERE was able to put on two workshops for 16 teenagers in 2017. Afterwards, ASCRIGERE followed up with the following reports:

Study materials and books were given to the 16 teens who attended. These were in the subjects of math, Spanish, social studies, science, citizenship, and …

ASCRIGERE Ministry of Love had a dream of putting on some workshops with the hopes of helping local teens understand the academic challenges they would face. The organization cares for teens who were on the streets, so they have even more hurtles to academic achievement than most. The goal was to raise awareness, inform, and motivate the fight …

Long Way home is a non-profit organization whose mission is to interrupt the cycle of poverty among youth in developing countries by creating educational opportunities, encouraging healthy lifestyles and cultivating civic interaction. They are presently located in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala in a 95% indigenous Maya region. They have successfully …