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We’re a little bit excited to have just taken delivery of a batch of brand spanking new Quest Overseas brochures! In them, you’ll find all the info you need on our projects and expeditions, details on our charity Quest4Change and on Fair Trade Volunteering, reviews from previous volunteers, and much, much more. Coming soon to […]

This summer brings some exciting times for Quest in South America as the first ever team to venture to our newest project in the Manu Biosphere Reserve arrived in Peru last Wednesday. This pioneering bunch have arrived safely in the jungle and have spent the last couple of days exploring and getting to know their […]

Here at Quest we’ve always been fans of the strange, awe-inspiring or just plain ridiculous things that happen when people have too much time on their hands and this has to be one of my current favourites…..Human Mattress Dominoes…. The exisitng World Record of 550 people has been toppled (see what i did there…) by […]

Things are going incredibly well in Kenya. Already this years team have broken the cement mixing record – “the Quest team, ASDF staff and community up in Tawa have mixed 599 bags of cement in 2 days. The record was on day one when they mixed 300 bags. That’s broken the record previously set by […]

Things are going incredibly well in Kenya. Already this years team have broken the cement mixing record – “the Quest team, ASDF staff and community up in Tawa have mixed 599 bags of cement in 2 days. The record was on day one when they mixed 300 bags. That’s broken the record previously set by […]

    This update is provided by Team Leader Joe who has been involved with the Charity since he was a young boy growing up in Malawi.     The Northern Ireland team arrived safely in Malawi and settled into thier newhome very well and made a wonderful friendly relationship with the local community. One […]

  Team Poa Tanzania Take on Managha!   Mambo! (Hi) After almost 2 days of stressful travelling team Tanzania have finally landed in Africa. We spent our first night in Arusha Backpackers after our first Tanzanian style journey with Gem and Robbie (our driver for the day) from Killi airport. Having not gone to bed […]

  Team Poa Tanzania Take on Managha!   Mambo! (Hi) After almost 2 days of stressful travelling team Tanzania have finally landed in Africa. We spent our first night in Arusha Backpackers after our first Tanzanian style journey with Gem and Robbie (our driver for the day) from Killi airport. Having not gone to bed […]

The Villa Maria team may have only been in Lima for a couple of days, but they have already thrown themselves feet first into life in the community – and we’re guessing a few of Lucho’s practical jokes as well! The team are bonding well and although bleary-eyed after some early morning flight arrivals spent […]

Thank you to Jason for this update on everything the team got up to dring their first week, they sure have been working hard!   Week 1 has been eventful as I expected but with more hard work, fun games and team bonding activities. We started the week at Ilumu where we had a look […]