World Wise Adventures

Growing Compassionate Global Citizens through Service, Stories and Exploration

a project of Maiden Voyage Productions

The mission of World Wise Adventures is to inspire young people to become compassionate, informed and engaged citizens of the world through making films, doing service work and sharing interactions with diverse local and global communities. World Wise Adventures creates an integrated experience that imparts the following to participants:

  • Awareness of the commonalities between their lives and the lives of people from diverse communities and cultures.
  • Recognition that each individual and every community is significant to the well being of our world.
  • Sensitivity to global cultures forged through meaningful shared experiences.

The positive effects of this project extend beyond these guiding principles to benefit not only the  youth who participate in the service trips, but also the communities they help, the nonprofit organizations that serve those communities, and young children everywhere, who will be exposed to global cultures through the sharing of stories, films and educational activities.

How World Wise Adventures works with …

Nonprofits and Communities

  • Identifies a project that furthers the nonprofit’s mission and helps the community.
  • Helps the org to set up infrastructure, so the local community will be able to host and interact with a small group of teens and adults (on-the-ground community staff will be compensated with a stipend).
  • Builds relationships with stakeholders before, during and after the trip through  communications on website, blogs, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
  • Provides a professional 2-4 minute video for the nonprofit that can be strategically distributed to support their work.

Nonprofit benefits:
Completion of a service project that furthers the org’s mission
Contributions from funds raised by teen participants
Production of a video about their work for marketing and fundraising
Exposure for nonprofit on websites, blogs and social media

Community benefits:
Improvements completed by the service work participants
Opportunities for local youth to meet and work with US students
Exposure to potential supporters on websites, blogs and social media

High School Students

  • Guides students in raising partial funds for their trip, with a percentage going to the nonprofit and/or the community it supports.
  • Teaches filmmaking, marketing and social networking at media boot camp.
  • Engages students in meaningful service work for 7-10 days.
  • Oversees production of a short (2-3 minute) video that will be used to share their experience with children.
  • Introduces students to an enriching experience of the host culture through a 5-7 day guided tour.

Benefits:
Travel
Filmmaking, marketing, social networking and fundraising skills
Service work experience
Exposure to global cultures and communities

Children

  • WWA shares videos by student participants  about their travel and service experience.
  • Provides a dynamic interactive website with background information, activities and multimedia presentations that introduce children to the participating communities.

Benefits:
Broadened exposure to diverse local and global cultures
Curriculum/activities that are fun and educational