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is will be Trevor's sixth year visiting and partnering with the HELO orphanage, located in Les Cayes, Haiti. e mission of HELO "is to provide home, education, love and opportunity to orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti." HELO "provides them a loving environment where they can learn to read and write and then learn a trade." ere are currently 80 children living at HELO, spanning from 10 months to 18 years of age. Year-round, on the Upper School campus, the HELO Haiti club promotes the work of this orphanage to the community and organizes various drives and fundraisers to support HELO's mission. When students visit in February, the week is spent working on a long-term infrastructure project and getting to know students. In previous years, projects have focused on rebuilding homes after hurricanes, and working on the school's upkeep. e students have much interaction with the residents—they play games and sports and value their time simply talking with the children. In addition to Haiti and India, Trevor students have previously traveled to Chile, China, Cuba, France, South Africa, and Spain. In 2007, five students and two teachers took Trevor's first international trip, to South Africa. Students worked at an orphanage—cooking for the children and assisting with landscape maintenance. At an independent high school, they learned about global hunger and met the acclaimed author Zubeida Jaffer. A year later, during our first trip to China, Trevor students were the first Western school to participate at Harvard Model UN Shanghai. Debating world issues, while interacting with a culture so different from their own, students gained invaluable perspectives. Trips to France and Spain served to immerse students in the languages they were studying, while they learned more about each country's history, arts, and culture. In 2017, members of Trevor's Cuba Club participated in the first-ever student service trip to Cuba. (Other schools' trips had been limited to cultural exchange.) In Havana, students worked for five mornings at a nursery school. e original itinerary called for four mornings— but the students found it so worthwhile that they suggested giving up a scheduled morning at the beach so that they could spend more time with the children. Learning through contextual experience is invaluable for a young person. Trevor incorporates study and service with international travel because it broadens students' perspectives, illuminates what they have learned on campus, and gives them unique opportunities to offer service and acts of kindness. e travel program also exemplifies a key portion of Trevor's mission: to develop in students "a recognition of their own unique potential as lifelong learners and leaders who act as responsible global citizens." n I can't find words to describe the joy that spending time with these children brought.…Parting with them—and the rest of the people we met— broke my heart.…and reinforced my desire to return to the orphanage to strengthen this relationship." –Johana Sylla '15 1 9 T R E V O R D AY S C H O O L n W I N T E R 2 0 1 8 – 2 0 1 9

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