Super Junior!!!!???   After a month of fierce competition during their project work in the shanty town of Villa Maria, the local Pop Idol competition (or Peru’s equivalent at least – Yo Soy!) finally brought out a winner. Super Junior (?) is the artist, but can you work out which of our volunteers is behind […]

Congratulations to Christine, Eleanor, Elisha, Harry, Joe, Noemi, Joseph and leader Jessie, who all summited Mount Kilimanjaro yesterday, with no shortage of gruelling huffs and puffs to get up there…  The team are all now back in Arusha, hopefully enjoying some hot foot soaks and RnR, before heading out tonight for a celebratory meal, and […]

The team have left the village life behind them and are now enjoying some well earned RnR in Cape Maclear, which luckily means we have some snaps to feast on over the weekend…  Thanks guys, enjoy!         We love a Quest birthday – Yay Kate! And we love Quest leader Joseph, especially […]

Brief update on the road from Misha – thanks guys! With memory cards full of pictures of caimans and Questies chilling in hammocks, we boarded our taxis and headed back to rurrenabaque. Seeing as the steak with blue cheese at Juliano was such a hit last time, we all returned for another satisfying meal. The […]

A huge thank you to the wonderful friends and family of Kevan and Penny Ashbridge, who raised £260 for the Quest School in Villa Maria at Kevan’s big birthday bash the other day!  This money is a fantastic donation to help support the work in Villa Maria, and will be used to provide full sponsorship […]

Less than two weeks to go, our Andean Exped team are still going strong – thanks for the update guys! We came back from the Salt Flats relaxed and photoed-out (nearly) and prepared for the Condoriri trek and Pequeno Alpamayo ice climb. We were all quite nervous about the trek having suffered during Colca but […]

Today is both a sad and a happy day in the Quest office…  It is sad because Rose Terry, legend of Quest4Change and many times Africa Team leader is leaving us.  Happy because that means cake – chocolate cake!!  It also meant we had an extremely random night at the Monster Truck show last night, […]

Lima, City of the Kings, as it was so named during the days of the Conquistadores sits on the Pacific coast and is the present day capital city of Peru with an estimated population of over 10 million, roughly a third of that of the entire country.  Steeped in history we were however neither here […]

Hello everybody! My name is Matty and I have recently joined the Quest Overseas office in sunny Brighton. Quest entered my life following my response to an email received through my university department. Within three months I had fully signed up for the Summer Kenya Water Aid Project, not forgetting the accompanying challenge of climbing the worlds highest […]

  2012 may seem like a whole year ago, but lets be honest, the work of our volunteers was so fantastic, it deserves a renewed cheer and high fives all round…  (I am not biased of course, but I think its worth mentioning that it was the very same year of my team, the Poa […]