Quest News

Hello from Malawi!! Almost into our last week of Malawi and we are all still having an amazing time! We have almost finished refurbishing the feeding centre and its kitchen and the boys have been keeping up their carpentry skills with refurbishing the desks for the primary school. The villagers are extremely friendly and always […]

Volunteering overseas to help empoverished or orphaned children leaves little room for criticism, doesn’t it? This blog entry undoubtedly has a different feel to that of my last ‘leader in the field’ update from Sucre. It may well make a difficult read for some as I do not intend to hold back from some hard […]

After our relaxed day having finished our Colca Canyon trek, we returned to Arequipa on the 6.30am bus, I.e. 7.45am ( Peru doesn’t have a talent for time keeping). Arequipa greeted us with ice creams, wifi, a warm shower and a nice meal, a welcome change from our ambitious but none the less questionable trek […]

A Day in the Life of a Villa Maria Volunteer By Tilly Danby and Zoe Kayton Ten alarm clocks sound at 6.15 am and the team awakens with the good intention of going for a jog. On a usual day about half us will actually leave the cosy confines of our beds and head out […]

Hello hello, Brighton had a great Marathon on Sunday, with over 10.000 participants. Quest4Change marked its presence doing volunteer work. We had a water station at the end of the 6th mile, and me and my fellow Portuguese friends were there to help with the water station, as we are trying to get involved with […]

Without being too generic, it really is hard to believe that today should be our last day in Sucre. I would put special emphasis on the word ‘should’ however, as, despite our aims to leave the city, our actual destination beyond this is still yet to be decided. The reason for such uncertainty is the […]

Hi people, It’s been a while since we posted a blog and a lot has happened in that time. We left you while we waited in Sucre, uncertain as to whether the Bolivian miners would permit our departure. After a good 48 hours we boarded a bus to Potosi… only to disembark 10km outside the […]

Our very first team update of the year, written by the talented Mr Noah Shasha. With nationalities spanning the globe, nine adults converge upon the bustling metropolis that is Quito; four Redcoats, two Yanks, one Spaniard, a Canadian, and a Frenchwoman take their first step on what is sure to be an extraordinary adventure. Despite […]