WORLD CHALLENGE – All Out Africa https://alloutafrica.com Adventures that change lives Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:20:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://alloutafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png WORLD CHALLENGE – All Out Africa https://alloutafrica.com 32 32 World Challenge in Mozambique https://alloutafrica.com/2019/07/world-challenge-in-mozambique/ https://alloutafrica.com/2019/07/world-challenge-in-mozambique/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:31:33 +0000 https://alloutafrica.com/?p=10265 Tower Build was a very positive experience for the World Challenge Team and the Tofo community. We started off the project with a community tour of the two local schools, Tofo Surf Club and Gutsakisana. The WC kids really enjoyed being involved with the schools, playing games and learning about the local children and what the local schools have to offer the kids in the community.

The main project the World Challenge kids were involved in was helping in the building of the lifeguard tower. The positive feedback from the kids about their experience was that the Tower is going to be a great asset to the lifeguards and the community, and they were all very happy to be a part of building it.

Overall the experience was positive, and the kids felt as if they learned a lot about themselves, their capabilities and about the Tofo community. They enjoyed the interaction with the local kids and seeing the final product of the fence for the tower.  Above all, they had a good time filled with laughter and smiles, and they even had some advice to help improve the Tofo community.

A big thanks to World Challenge from NhaTofo Salva Vidas (Tofo’s Lifeguard Association).

Written by Jordyn Du Bois, All Out Africa Marine Research Centre Build Coordinator for Mozambique World Challenge Build 2019. 

]]> https://alloutafrica.com/2019/07/world-challenge-in-mozambique/feed/ 0 World Challenge & AOA https://alloutafrica.com/2017/08/world-challenge-aoa/ https://alloutafrica.com/2017/08/world-challenge-aoa/#respond Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:57:35 +0000 https://alloutafrica.com/?p=7868 I remember my last years of high school….a frustrating feeling of almost-control; standing on the precipice of owning my life but not quite knowing how to jump off….on the one hand sure I could fly and on the other not quite sure I wouldn’t just plummet and crash.  So many almost-options, so many almost-chances, so many hesitations when I wasn’t sure I was ready and so many missed opportunities for fear I wouldn’t manage it alone, for fear I wasn’t ready. There’s a point at which the world opens….suddenly the possibilities are endless…. but so are the risks.  

For several weeks each year at All Out Africa Marine Research Centre, alongside our normal Marine Research Program, we also open up to World Challenge Trips.  These trips include awesome opportunities like trekking in Eswatini, touring for wildlife in Kruger National Park, South Africa and building classrooms in Mozambique.  And, for those schools that choose it, culminate in 4 days on Tofo Beach with us, learning about marine life, going out on the ocean with our marine researchers and getting in the water with some of the biggest animals in the world!  

For me, the real magic of these World Challenge trips with All Out Africa is that they benefit everyone.  The countries they visit benefit from sustainable tourism and socially conscious funded builds which help the communities.  The participants benefit from an exhilarating and eye-opening portal into another world, so foreign to their own, which lifts their gaze from what they know and opens their world.

17 year old me wanted to change the world.  35 year old me has learned that they key to it all was to open up and let the world change me.

 

Written by Katie Reeve-Arnold (Marine Research & Whale Shark Conservation Project Coordinator)

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