Global Experiential Learning

Join a Summer Travel and Volunteer Opportunity in Guatemala! 

Guatemala 2025 Service Trip! 

August 12-25, 2025

• Cost: $3100 (included, housing, meals, activities, and RT airfare out of SFO). 
• Participants will take Econ 54H—a 1-unit seminar on Global Poverty (tuition not included in the $3100 above)
• Scholarships 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 

Fill Out Interest Form

Information Session • Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 7-8 p.m.

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

Join by Zoom

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