This month UrbanTrekkers hosted our first overnight trip since the start of the pandemic, taking sixteen StreetLeaders from all four of our neighborhood sites plus a team of five UrbanPromise staff members on an adventure to the North Carolina mountains!
Our Trekkers engaged in a variety of outdoor and indoor activities throughout the weekend, from traveling across a zipline course with ten lines (including one nearly 300 feet above the ground!) to hiking the beautiful Rough Ridge trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway.
It was also so special to welcome Francisco Gonzalez, our South Site Middle School Director, to the Trekkers leadership team just in time for this trip. He did an amazing job facilitating, and we're so grateful to be able to resume our overnight trips this school year!
Each Trekker student was given a notebook and a pen at the start of the trip with the challenge of engaging in personal reflection by writing about their experiences. We shared all our meals together and spent time talking about our lives, our leadership and our faith journeys through several reflection sessions as a whole group.
All in all, our StreetLeaders looked back on the trip with a sense of joy and a strong feeling of connection with the UrbanPromise community. A huge thank you to our broader community of UP partners and donors who made this trip possible. We're grateful for you!
*We made sure our community was as safe as possible, requiring everyone to obtain a negative Covid test prior to the trip and encouraging mask use throughout.
UrbanTrekkers is an extension of UrbanPromise’s StreetLeader Program — it seeks to complement our highly successful academic initiatives with outside expeditionary learning opportunities. Learn more about the program and how you can get involved on the UrbanTrekkers page of our website!