Recent posts from: Riobamba1 – 8/03/2017


Final Post from Mama Jillian


Good Morning or Good Afternoon- As I sit in my apartment, coffee in hand, a bit sleepy from our two-week extravaganza and clean from a HOT shower I can’t help but miss the sound of students laughing, singing, and doing a count off (ELEVEN)! I want to give a huge...

Final Day!


Here comes that time to say goodbye to Ecuador. As the leader of the day, I woke up at 5 in the morning in order to ensure I was ready to wake up all my friends up. It was an adventure trying to wake everyone up especially since it was so early in the morning. Never...

RB1D Return Trip Information


Hello Family and Friends of RB1D Glimpsers, We know you all are excited for your students to return, so here are some reminders about their flight information: The students will be arriving at JFK at 10:00 PM on Thursday 8/17 on Avianca AV 244 into the Terminal 4.  ...

CAP Day 2


First off, shout out to my mom for helping me get pencil cases for my students, they loved it more than I thought they would. I wouldn’t have been able to give them a gift so simple without her. Big love to her and my sister for being such great people in my...

Community Action Project Day 1


It’s that time in the trip! Yes that time meaning Community Action Project which means we get to begin building our plan to enlighten a community. This day was the day most of us looked up to since we were so nervous to present our projects and whether the...

Sunday Funday!


Today was very interesting. We had a lot of ups and downs, literally and figuratively. Ali and I woke up at 6, but everyone else woke up at 6:30. At 7:30, we were on the road to Chimborazo, the highest you can get to the sun on Earth. When I found out that I was going...

Deconstructing Poverty and Aid & Development


We wanted to start of today’s blog post with a quote. “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of humans...