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The first members of our Africa summer teams have now landed in Kenya, ready to get stuck into their Water Relief Project.  The team is going to be working with two community self-help groups this year – Malaika and Nzwyy (“un-zwee”) to build sand dams over five weeks. What is a sand dam? A sand […]

The first members of our Africa summer teams have now landed in Kenya, ready to get stuck into their Water Relief Project.  The team is going to be working with two community self-help groups this year – Malaika and Nzwyy (“un-zwee”) to build sand dams over five weeks. What is a sand dam? A sand […]

A big thank you to last summers Kenya team from the self help groups of Kenya: “I would like to see other volunteers come to work here in the future as it has had a very motivating effect on this community.” Anna Katwele, 93, Malaika Self Help Group “A sand dam here will change our […]

Following the visit of Jane Goodall to our animal sanctuary project in Bolivia, Quest has maintained close links with the youth action movement of the Jane Goodall Institute, Roots and Shoots. So much so that this year we have sponsored their annual Award for Individual Endeavour, offering a fully funded place on one of our […]

It’s official – the summer has begun here at Quest with our first summer project team landing in Bolivia this morning. The team will be spending 6 weeks working hard in two of the Inti Wara Yassi animal sanctuaries. First of all in the newest park, Jaqj Cuisi, constructing a large enclosure for 2 recently […]

It’s official – the summer has begun here at Quest with our first summer project team landing in Bolivia this morning. The team will be spending 6 weeks working hard in two of the Inti Wara Yassi animal sanctuaries. First of all in the newest park, Jaqj Cuisi, constructing a large enclosure for 2 recently […]

Hooray for Ambue Ari ! We arrived in La Paz on the 28th of march it was so unexpectedly cold! It was very exciting meeting everyone. We all liked each other at first sight and we had fish and chips at Oliver’s travel. Then our first day in Bolivia we did the worlds most dangerous […]

Hooray for Ambue Ari ! We arrived in La Paz on the 28th of march it was so unexpectedly cold! It was very exciting meeting everyone. We all liked each other at first sight and we had fish and chips at Oliver’s travel. Then our first day in Bolivia we did the worlds most dangerous […]

So the Quest office was a bit divided on the AV vote. However, both the no’s and the yes’s enjoyed this video of Auf Wiedersehen Pet’s take on alternative voting. Now it makes sense!

In July and August of this year, 12 Quest volunteers headed out to Kenya work with community Self-Help Groups in Kaueni District.  Here’s a short video from Rhodah Wambua, a member of the Nzwii Self-Help Group, talking about the benefits of Quest Overseas volunteers joining the group in constructing their second sand dam. Quest Overseas […]