Quest News

Our team in Lima has started working in Villa Maria recently at our children’s project. One of their first jobs was to present a donation of football strips from Burgess Hill Town Football Club to a local team. Here is the first team photo, but they needed someone to play against, very noble of our […]

With the increase in interest and value of taking a gap year, not only are more people taking gap years, but there are also more people interested in investing in them. Another example of this is Erik’s Gap Year Trust. The trust was set up in 1998 by the family of Erik Sutherland as a […]

So after our weekend of rafting we headed back to Mbuluzi and were greeted with the task of anti-poaching patrols. Probably the most uncomfortable experience of our life. We did find one snare, which had wrapped itself around the leg of an unfortunate Wildebeest. We also carried on with the giraffe surveys and seemed to […]

Some of you may remember that Quest was involved in a diving project some years ago in Mozambique. This was managed by the wise and bearded Chris Williams, who has now moved on to work here in the UK for Natural England. Fortunately for him, this hasn’t meant that he has had to completely hang […]

HOL-AR .  Que tal…estamas bien, just to throw a few of our many Spanish phrases out there.  Monday, we got the privilege to spend some time with local school children, playing stuck in the mud amongst other games and they all seemed to enjoy it a lot. then we learnt about “full shroom” and “half […]

  No one can say that we at Quest don’t know how to have a good time, so with the snowfall last night, we decided to make the most of it up on the South Downs……armed with a dinghy and some rubber rings… Check out this video of Quest ex-South America leader Helen Kellar and […]

We’re at the end of another interesting week in Mtito Andei. We finished our first dam at Malaika on Monday, which was great to see. On Tuesday we went straight to work on our second dam, with Wi Kwatua Ke Ambani Community Group. The new community greeted us with great spirit and enthusiasm, and a […]

  Arrived in dribs and drabs – finally making the quest team 2010.  Camped in Lilongwe and ghad a bbq and our final ‘shower’ for a long time.  Left for Pensulo, it took approximately six hours in a knackered out 60’s style hippy bus with a driver who nearly lost his will to live as […]

  We’re at the end of another interesting week in Mtito Andei. We finished our first dam at Malaika on Monday, which was great to see. On Tuesday we went straight to work on our second dam, with Wi Kwatua Ke Ambani Community Group. The new community greeted us with great spirit and enthusiasm, and […]

  We’re at the end of another interesting week in Mtito Andei. We finished our first dam at Malaika on Monday, which was great to see. On Tuesday we went straight to work on our second dam, with Wi Kwatua Ke Ambani Community Group. The new community greeted us with great spirit and enthusiasm, and […]