Global Experiential Learning

Summer Travel and Volunteer Opportunities

Guatemala 2025 Service Leadership

August 12-25, 2025

• Cost: $3100 (included, housing, meals, activities, and airfare out of SFO). 
• Participants will take Econ 54H—a 1-unit seminar on Global Poverty (tuition not included in the $3100 above)
• Subsidies available.
• Trip is offered in partnership with Dream Volunteers.
• Questions? Please contact Brian Evans at evansbrian@fhda.edu.
• For details on how to apply, submit interest form by Friday, Feb. 28, 2024 

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Information Session • Thursday, Jan. 23 at 5 p.m.

Attend our virtual info session to learn more and get your questions answered.

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About the Program

Participants will spend thirteen days volunteering in the mountainous village of El Astillero, where they will support the school sites and experience what daily life is like in rural Guatemala. Their free time and evenings will be spent in the colonial tourist town of Antigua. Volunteer work on this trip will include building a school in El Astillero.

Also take Econ 54H, a one-unit seminar on global poverty, with discussions led by economics instructor Brian Evans.

Watch 2022 Video Travelogue 

 

Join an Active Archaeological Research Project and Earn College Credit! 

The Foothill Anthropology Department invites students and volunteer adult community members of all ages and experience levels to join our active archaeological research field projects during the summer months.

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Learn about the Hawai'i Field School here.

For more information about all of our field programs, visit the Foothill Anthropology Field School website.