Onto the Gold: Project Nepal...

The requirements to get a International Gold Award is much more complicated including a one-week residential trip plus a four-day expedition. The school sponsors a Gold trip to Kenya, but Veronica wasn’t chosen for that team. She was thrilled when she learned that the organizers of the Dutch International Award sponsor a trip to Nepal and that she could have a spot on the team along with five other BSN students and one Dutch student. On the far right is their team leader, Marieke, who made the trip last year for the first time.

Hard to believe that our little girl is grown up enough to go to Nepal for three weeks this summer without us. In order to prepare for her trip, she has to raise funds that will be used to support volunteer projects including giving English lessons at a deaf school and teaching HIV awareness at a maternity clinic. She also has to go on a practice expedition to learn additional skills in wilderness survival.