Over the past five years, our groups of Challenge Worldwide participants have brought a mixed bag of skills, experience, enthusiasm and fund-raising achievements to impoverished communities all over the world and transformed their future opportunities.

They’ve built schools, community centres and medical clinics in villages and slums, in the mountains and in the bush. They’ve set up food and nutrition programmes and supplied water conservation and computer equipment. They’ve lit up the African Bush with solar power… and the faces of the local community by teaching them spreadsheets on their newly donated computers and how to build a sustainable income for their school as a result of their new electricity supply.

Along the way, they’ve climbed mountains (literally!) trekked through the wilderness, fallen out of hammocks, discovered muscles they never knew they had, outraced an exploding volcano, eaten guinea-pigs, taught the Masai to sing “Bohemian Rhapsody”, and a Peruvian community in the High Andes to dance the Gay Gordons…. They’ve been exhausted, exhilarated, motivated and crestfallen, in floods of tears and fits of laughter. Most of all, they’ve tested themselves to the limits and discovered they can achieve absolutely anything if they put their minds to it. And the icing on the cake: the sense of pride and achievement that comes from making a difference to a desperately impoverished community who will remember you for the rest of their lives.