Here's the deal: we are nine students at Baltimore City's southernmost high school, Benjamin Franklin, and we are going to Ecuador in June of 2013 for nine days! Why? To participate in a reforestation project, learn about a culture that is completely and totally foreign to us, and develop an overall love of traveling and service. We realized that while the need for domestic service is real, the experience of traveling abroad, learning about other cultures, and helping combat a problem new to us, like rainforest destruction, could be life-changing in many different ways.
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Read more about this trip and these amazing students here.