In 2017, our group travelled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to work for two weeks with the local Projects Abroad office. The focus of our project was care and community. Our primary work was to support the staff at a local non-project child care centre, offering free care for children of single mothers. The Mongolian government does not provide social support for these women, so this enables them to get work. In the afternoons, our students would give English lessons at a local school for teens that had dropped out of the normal high school. We also offered lessons to the local teachers to support their English-language classes.

The students were also able to take in many cultural experiences, including visiting the Genghis Khan memorial statue, learning Mongolian calligraphy from Buddhist monks, visiting Terelj National Park, and seeing a traditional Mongolian dance and music performance. The highlight of the trip for many students was visiting a nomadic family and experiencing their way of life.

"By end of the trip, I saw how far we’d come, we had finished building the fence, insulating the house, and laying the bricks. I realized in an instant how much I cared for these kids, and how by simply providing them with something that in Canada would seem like a necessity, was helping to change their life for the better. To me, that moment was the most rewarding part of the trip. " - Student, 16