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Romainville middle school students study water management in Vietnam

Last April, students from the Gustave Courbet (Romainville) middle school explored Vietnam as part of an Odyssée Jeunes (Youth Odyssey) programme. Interview with Laurent Bertat, their history and geography teacher. [...]

Destination: Santiago, Chile

Last April, 18 middle school students from Pierrefitte, France went on a school trip to Peñalolén, a town in the province of Santiago, Chile. The following is an interview with Céline Azoppardi, their teacher. [...]

Reporters for a Day with “Planète Equitable”

Join 6 Belgian medical students from the University of Hasselt as they voyage to Nalou, Mali, with the Planete Equitable organization.
We can’t really say that they’re volunteers; it is more appropriate to describe them as participants in a “Sustainable Tourism” mission. Over their visit, they brought medicine as well as their medical skills to the [...]

Panorama of microfinance in Argentina

Argentina is not a country in which microfinance flourishes, particularly in comparison with its neighbours, Bolivia and Peru. [...]

FTT: Travelogue from the other side of the world

After Chile, FTT tackles Argentina! A huge country, the eighth largest in the world by size, extending nearly 4,000 km from North to South, with an incredible variety of climates and landscapes: from the summits of the Andes in the West, to the cloud forests to the North-East, through the deserts of the Pampas in [...]

FTT: Discovery of a new continent

And here we are now in South America! What a radical change! We’re going to spend about four months here, our route taking us through Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and the Republic of Ecuador.  We’ll be doing all this by bike, with one exception: Paraguay, which we will cross by bus, as the [...]

The program Odyssée Jeunes is in full swing!

Four months after the launch of the program, 82 school trips in 10 different countries have been funded. That adds up to over 3,200 students experiencing the knowledge the world has to offer outside of the classroom! Each trip brings a sense of culture, learning, knowledge as in the following two educational trips

The Jean Jaurès Montfermeil middle school provides students with opportunities to act and express themselves freely; to let go and show their artistic side. In their drama classes, the goal is not just to memorize a text, but to get involved in a group project, work with others, and work with one’s imagination. [...]

FTT: New Zealand by Bike

From the start, we’ve thought of New Zealand as a turning point in our world tour. From now on, each step will bring us closer and closer to home. It’s already been six months, or half of the scheduled duration of our trip, since we began our tour in Nepal.
We’re also leaving – for the [...]

FTT : Philippines, last asian adventure

The Philippines: the last major stage in our Asian adventure. This archipelago of 7,000 islands is an ideal destination for saying a gentle goodbye to the continent, for while the country is geographically in Asia, it’s culturally quite separate. An explosive mix of Asian, European and American cultures give it a unique flavour. Filipinos are [...]