EDUCATION TEAMS
Travelling throughout North America and Europe the Education Teams will talk directly to youth, inspiring and empowering them to take on leadership and local action. This will be assisted using the adventures of the Expedition, as real-life demonstrators of individuals overcoming incredible challenges, and the Advanced Team's charitable work as current examples of youth taking on critical issues. The teams will then draw connections between those issues and projects undertaken by local charitable programs.
Over 1 million youth will take part in the Pole to Pole experience.
ADVANCED TEAMS
Dozens of international youth will form Advanced Teams. These teams will spend six to eight months volunteering with established charitable groups working on critical issues in areas along the expedition route. These environmental and social projects will involve issues such as the fight against AIDS, wildlife conservation, fair-trade and clean water programs. All of these issues will be related to the Journey 2007's focus on climate change. The Expedition Team members will also take part in these projects for a short period of time as they journey through each area.
EXPEDITION TEAMS
(never before attempted non-motorised journey)
22 young people from around the world will form the Expedition Team (a team of 10 to the Equator, handing off to a team of 12 to the North Pole). Departing from the South Pole in November, 2007, the journey will show youth around the world the ability of young people to overcome extraordinary obstacles. The expedition will also take the team through regions impacted by climate change. They will kie-ski over the melting ice sheets of Antarctica, sail the Southern Ocean, cycle across African landscapes left barren by desertification and kayak past deteriorating coral reefs in the Red Sea. After winding through the streets of Europe the Expedition members will brave the elements of the shrinking northern ice cap, arriving at the North Pole in June 2009, to complete the jo
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