How does Unschool Adventures keep students safe abroad?
We keep students (and staff) safe through a vigilant combination of well-trained leaders, smart itineraries, and common sense student rules. 1. Each UA trip has two leaders: a lead and a co-lead (typically one of each sex). The co-lead is trained in Wilderness First Aid (at minimum), and the lead is a Wilderness First Responder or Emergency Medical Technician. These levels of certification are excessive for the destinations that we visit, but we believe that excessive safety training is the best way to ensure that minor situations are 100% effectively navigated. By having two leaders, we ensure group supervision in the case that one becomes ill or injured. 2. The itinerary for a UA trip is designed to get our North American teens “out of the box”, but never into an area of political instability, truly desperate poverty, or known significant threat to Western travelers. We stay within 24 hours travel time of first-world medical care (and typically much, much less). Within cities that ha
