Category Archives: Early History
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Colts to Ecuador 1995 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 1995 EcuadorEcuador (1995) – Sixteen grade 12 students and 2 supervising teachers used their skills learned in Global Perspectives 12 and visited schools, orphanages and medical facilities beginning in the capital city of Quito. Some of the highlights of the trip included: climbing Mt. Pasachoa, hiking through the rainforest jungles in Puyu, taking a shower under [...]
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Colts to Vietnam 1996 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 1996 VietnamVietnam (1996) – On March 12th of 1996, twenty students left for Vietnam for a fifteen day working humanitarian venture accompanied by three supervising teachers, Richmond News Reporter Mike Howell, members of the Capilano College film crew and Bob Carkner. The main purpose of the trip was to build an “adventure playground for a deaf/mute [...]
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Colts to Guatemala 1997 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 1997 GuatemalaGuatemela (1997) – Students left from Seattle and travelled by plane to Guatemala. After two days in the old capital of Antigua, they took a three hour journey into the central mountainous region of the country to a tiny village called Quizaya. For six exhausting days, students suffered though heat, insects and at times, bad [...]
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Colts to Indonesia 1998 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 1998 IndonesiaIndonesia (1998) – Students raised $11 000 for educational and playground materials. The materials were purchased here, sent by cargo and ocean liner to Jakarta and then were taken to a village called Ngentakrejo on the outskirts of Yogyakarta in Central Java. Students spent six days performing a number of activities. Some worked on building [...]
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Colts to China 1999 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 1999 ChinaChina (1999) – A class of 20 students, 4 supervising teachers and three dentists travelled to China in March of 1999 to help stock a village school library. The students stocked the library for 1000 children at Mu Lo elementary school. They assembled shelves and decorated the facility with a bit of North American flare. [...]
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Colts to Thailand 2000 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 2000 ThailandOn March 18, 21 students from Richmond Secondary School traveled to Thailand to assist in a humanitarian mission as well as experience the people and culture of the country. For the first time in the five year history of Global Perspectives 12, you were invited to share in this life changing experience. TRIP ITINERARY [...]
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Colts to Dominican Republic 2001 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 2001 Dominican RepublicIn the spring of the year 2001, students from Richmond High’s Global Perspectives 12 class are travelling to a place called Soma, which is located in the province of Puerto Plata. It is on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, which is bordering Haiti, 27 km east of Puerto Plata. The entire area has [...]
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Colts to Philippines 2002 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 2002 PhilippinesIn the Spring of 2002, 20 grade 12 students, 3 dentists, and 4 supervising teachers travelled to the northern part of the Philippines. About 80 miles outside of Bagio there is a small school located in a barrio called Sablan that requires our help. The village that the school is located in has very little [...]
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Colts to Cuba 2003 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 2003 CubaThe 23 Richmond High School students, 4 teachers and dentists will be visiting an area in the Province of Matanzas located in Central Cuba, called CALIMETE Municipality. Students will build a room to an existing facility for teachers and culture instructors. It will have learning cultural purposes, because education and culture will share it. According [...]
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Colts to Peru 2004 Photo Gallery
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Tony in 2004 PeruIn the Spring of 2004, students from Richmond High’s Global Perspectives 12 class will be traveling to the Sacred Valley region in the Urubamba area. Twenty four students and five supervising teachers will be in the Comunidad de Palccaraque, Cusco province to preform humanitarian work for an elementary school. Our goal is to raise approximately [...]
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