During the trip students visited Paraguay's capital, Asunción, and nearby cities and travel north into the Paraguayan Chaco to visit three of the major Mennonite colonies. In Asunción students live with Christian families and attend afternoon classes at the Alberto Schweitzer School. Students also raised money to assist Sotero Colmán School, which is located in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the city. The  2007 group donated money to renovate badly-needed restroom facilities.

For the second week the group traveled to Brazil to see the Iguaçu Falls and Brazil's ecological capital, the city of Curitiba. The group stayed one night at a beach resort on Ilha do Mel.

See photos below and read several students' highlights.

Summer 2007 Group at Nature Preserve

Relating to Children at Sotero Colman

Donation for Sotero Colman: Students raised $4,000 for Sotero Colmán School, which is located in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the city.

Riding a zipline at the Nature Preserve