The Service Trip Experience

Peru Itinerary
Notre Dame Preparatory High School
 

Travel to Peru with K2 Adventures Foundation to participate in four days of Christian service, visit Sacsayhuaman Ruins and Cristo Blanco, attend mass celebrated in Spanish and tour the famous Machu Picchu ruins. As a participant on this trip, the student will receive 100% of required community service hours for their upcoming school year and a .5 Spanish elective credit.

Summer school .5 credit cultural immersion trip

12-DAY TRIP ITINERARY

Day 1 (May 30) - Depart Phoenix Sky Harbor airport with an arrival into Lima, Peru in the late evening.

Day 2 (May 31) - Morning flight to Cusco, a small city in the Peruvian Andes once known as the capital of the Inca Empire. An afternoon walking tour will include a tour of Coricancha and the Inca Temple of the Sun. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 3 (June 1) - First day of Christian Service at one of the locations K2AF serves. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel around 2:00 pm. They will attend an evening mass at Iglesias de La Merced. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 4 (June 2) - Second day of Christian Service at one of the locations served by K2AF. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel around 2:00 pm. They will be attending evening mass at Iglesias San Franciso. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Day 5 (June 3) - Third day of Christian Service at one of the locations K2AF serves. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am. The afternoon will be spent at an animal sanctuary where they can see the great condors in flight. Afterwards, they will visit the Awana Kancha Farm; a local alpaca farm where they can feed, touch and learn about the animals native to the Andes. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 6 (June 4) - The students will visit the Sacsayhuaman Archaeological Ruins and enjoy a picnic lunch at the Cristo Blanco, the 52’ statue of Christ overlooking Cusco. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Day 7 (June 5) - The students will attend morning mass at the Cathedral Basilica of our Lady of the Assumption and experience the beautiful Sunday parade that travels through the main square. A 2-hour hike on the Inca Trail to the sacred Water Temple will be in the afternoon. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 8 (June 6) - Fourth day of Christian Service at one of the locations served by K2AF. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am. They will tour La Compania de Jesus in the afternoon. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 9 (June 7) - Morning private bus to the Poroy Station to board the train bound for Aguas Calientes and the ruins of Machu Picchu. Students will hike up to the Sun Gate to see a spectacular view of the ruins. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner included.

Day 10 (June 8) - Morning hike up Wanna Picchu, elevation of 9,200 ft. The students will enjoy a private tour of the Machu Picchu ruins and spend the entire day exploring the sacred area. Breakfast and dinner included.

Day 11 (June 9) - Morning train departure for Ollantaytambo where the private bus will pick up and take the team to the Cusco airport. They will board their flight bound for Lima and prepare for a late evening flight back to the States. Breakfast included.

Day 12 (June 10) - Arrive home.

A $1,000 non-refundable deposit and a copy of student’s passport is required to register for the trip. Final balance is due 75 prior to departure. Registration deadline is February 15th, 2019 at which time the group airline ticket will be purchased. Students will travel on a round-trip group airline ticket from Phoenix with two (2) NDP teachers.

$4,350 Cost Per Person

Tanzania Itinerary
Notre Dame Preparatory High School
 

Five days of Christian service will be held at the three locations listed below:
Mwereni Integrated School for the Blind, Moshi
K2 Adventures Foundation discovered the Mwereni Integrated School for the Blind over 9 years ago. The school currently
serves 640 children, age range of 4 -15 years old, from the community of Moshi. Seventy-five of these students are orphans

who reside at the school. The orphans are either blind, albino or suffer from a genetic disease called Xeroderma Pigmen-
tosum (“XP”). There is a medical facility on property that serves the dental and medical needs of the children.

Summit Happy Home, Arusha

K2 Adventures Foundation purchased a one-acre parcel and is currently completing a functional multi-bed working orphan-
age for children currently living on the streets. The home will open in early 2019 and will provide a safe environment, proper

accommodations, essential medical care, and much-needed food & clothing for the children in need.
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Moshi
K2 Adventures Foundation partners with St. Joseph’s Hospital to provide medical, dental, nursing, and other community
service opportunities for K2 Adventure travelers. Teams will work directly with this amazing hospital and staff performing
surgeries, going on rounds, and participating in other activities that support the hospital. St. Joseph’s Hospital is one of the
largest hospitals in Moshi.

11-DAY TRIP ITINERARY 

Days 1 and 2 (June 21 and 22) - These are travel days with an arrival into Tanzania at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) on the evening of day two. Dinner included.

Day 3 (June 23) - First day of Christian Service at one of the 3 locations K2AF serves. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel around 4:00 pm. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 4 (June 24) - The morning will be filled with a visit to the coffee plantation followed by a beautiful hike to the Materuni Waterfall. The coffee experience will be like no other, including picking, peeling, grinding, and sipping locally grown coffee. Afterwards, the team will enjoy a breathtaking 40-minute, moderate hike through the local village to the waterfall. Finally, the team will visit a local pizza restaurant for lunch. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Day 5 (June 25) - The team will attend a local Catholic Mass celebrated by Father Aristides. Mass is said in Swahili, which is the native language of Tanzania. The students may choose to participate in the celebration. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 6 (June 26) - Second day of ChristianService at one of the 3 locations K2AF serves. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel around 4:00 pm. They will visit a local store called the Blue Zebra where they can purchase authen-tic trinkets and souvenirs. This store has a non-profit component that gives back to the local community by providing art lessons to underprivileged youth. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Day 7 (June 27) - Third day of Christian Service at one of the 3 locations K2AF serves. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel around 4:00 pm. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 8 (June 28) - The team will go on the one-day safari in Tarangire National Park and visit a Masai Village. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel in the evening. The drive to the safari gate takes about 3 hours from Moshi. After a picnic lunch in the park, the team will stop in Arusha where they will enjoy a nice dinner before returning to the hotel. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.

Day 9 (June 29) - Fourth day of Christian Service at one of the 3 locations K2AF serves. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel around 4:00 pm. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner included.

Day 10 (June 30) - Fifth day of Christian Service at one of the 3 locations K2AF serves. Students will leave the hotel by 9:00 am and arrive back at the hotel around 2:00 pm to prepare for their evening flight home. Breakfast, and lunch included.

Day 11 (July 1) - Arrive home.

A $1,000 non-refundable deposit and a copy of student’s passport is required to register for the trip. Final balance is due 75 days prior to departure. Registration deadline is March 1, 2019 at which time the group airline ticket will be purchased. Students will travel on a round-trip group airline ticket from Phoenix with two (2) NDP teachers.

$3,295 Cost Per Person

Immersion Trip to NPH Dominican Republic Notre Dame Preparatory October 13 - 19, 2018

Join us for a one-week immersion trip to our NPH home in the Dominican Republic. Speaking Spanish is a plus!

Experience firsthand how NPH USA transforms the lives of children! You will meet the amazing children, staff, and volunteers of NPH and learn about their daily lives. Whether you are new to NPH, or a longtime supporter, visiting our homes is the best way to see NPH in action.

We will have the unique opportunity to stay at the NPH home with the children, in a newly constructed visitor’s house. This will allow us to immerse ourselves in NPH life with the children.

While the children are in school, you will help out around the home (helping with daily chores around the property, working in the gardens and farm, caring for the babies, working in the kitchen, and viewing the school, etc.). Relax or hang out with the pequeños in the afternoons.

We will coordinate activities with the different age groups throughout the week. Note: An NPH USA chaperone will lead and oversee all travelers throughout the duration of the week.

All chaperones are background checked and are experienced volunteers.

Cost: $1,550 per person* Cost includes:

• Roundtrip airfare
• Pre-trip orientation
• On-site accommodations at the NPH home
• Airport transportation
• Meals while at NPH
• NPH USA chaperone
• Daily travel insurance
• Donation to the NPH home

*Price does not include

• Outside meals or optional attraction costs.

Payment Schedule 

• $750 non-refundable deposit due by July 5, 2018
• $800 Remainder due August 31, 2018

For more information, please contact Belinda Roda at broda@nphusa.org or call (480) 237-3007.

Kino Border Initiative
Nogales, Mexico
 

Kino Border Initiative offers food, clothing and shelter to men, women and children who have been deported. The Kino Border Initiative (KBI) is a binational organization that works in the area of migration and is located in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico The KBI’s vision is to help make humane, just, workable migration between the U.S. and Mexico a reality. Its mission is to promote US/Mexico border and immigration policies that affirm the dignity of the human person and a spirit of bi-national solidarity. Students work at the comedor preparing and serving food and providing care for people in need.

If you’d like more information regarding this organization, please visit KBI online. Please fill out and submit you application to Mrs. Gjerstad.

 

Please check back for more information, dates and cost.

1MISSION is the leader in organizing and leading short-term mission trips with a long-term impact to Rocky Point, Mexico. Our mission trips are Christ-centered, safe, affordable, and hassle free.

It's our mission to connect people to people, not people to projects.

Come along side of a family who has invested hundreds of hours in their community, and in just a few days help build their entire house. You'll truly be on a mission 'with' not 'for' them. Healthy missions are fully-dependent upon genuine partnerships, long-term relationships and sustainable development - connecting the church on a global level.

The next mission is set for March 8-11, 2019 and it is ONLY for senior boys.  Total cost is $475 and the boys may receive up to 30 Christian service hours! 

 

The vision of Chances for Children is to work through local pastors to move their communities from survival towards stability and then ultimately onward to sustainability. Addressing the basic needs of clean water, hunger, medical care and spiritual encouragement are the components for survival. The community then moves into stability when families are given the tools of employment to begin providing for the basic needs of their families. In some of the regions we work in, the movement from survival to stability has been accomplished in two years. Our ultimate goal is to see these communities into the final stage of sustainability. In this stage, the members of the community would create sustainable livelihoods for themselves so that they can provide for the needs of their families and furthermore teach those skills to their children. Students will be working in the orphanage, as well as delivering Mana packs from the organization Feed My Starving Children. to remote villages.

Chances for Children -Haiti during Spring Break $1600.00

NOT SCHOOL SPONSORED – level 3 travel warning
(FUNDRAISING NOT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SCHOOL)

Now more than ever, young adults are bombarded with a constant barrage of deceptive chaos:  from social media, peer pressure and university secularism. At HEARTFIRE, we lead students out of their comfortable, western rut and into a land of miracles - the kind found in impoverished villages and hope-filled hospitals. It is here where they undergo a life-long transformation and return home eternally changed.

Heartfire – Yucatan, Mexico Spring Break $1985.00

Serve special needs children and adults at the Shrine of Mary in Lourdes, France. This trip also includes the opportunity to visit many churches in the area. 

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality – Lourdes, France Pilgrimage and Service June TBD $5,000