Incorporating 20 YEARS of Impact

Our Team has spent over 20 years working to improve the lives of communities, and make a positive environmental impact wherever we operate. Everything we do starts with a commitment to sustainable projects. We build our camps to deliver on sustainable development goals and design our student experiences to create the maximum impact to the planet, and the young people who travel with us. We call it ‘The Camps Effect’ and it is the purpose that drives all of us at Camps International. This report is particularly special, as it celebrates our return after almost a million hours of project impact lost to the Covid Pandemic. We are immensely proud of the pages that follow. It is a testament to the extraordinary young people who choose to join us every year, and we are deeply grateful to each and every one of you.

Stuart Rees Jones CEO and Founder of Camps International

In 2022, we proudly celebrated our 20th anniversary and thought it was the perfect opportunity to reflect on our ongoing impact. Our journey started in 2002 with three participating schools in Kenya. Two decades later, we have worked with more than 1,000 schools and over 50,000 young people, creating and enhancing essential infrastructure and bringing real-world issues to the classroom through our educational programme, ‘Real World Studies’. Our focus during this period has seen contributions to food and water security, wildlife conservation, and housing and welfare within underdeveloped and vulnerable communities around the world.

Despite the global pandemic, which resulted in an estimated 845,000 hours of lost project work for Camps International and our community partners across 2020 and 2021, we had a strong comeback. We succeeded in delivering 73 projects across eight global locations in 2022 alone. More than 3,000 trees were planted last year, bringing our total number to more than one million. More than 85,000 acres of conservation land were protected during the same period.

None of this could have been achieved without our committed student travellers, staff, project partners, fundraisers and generous donors. Hopefully you are as proud as we are at the amazing projects we have worked on together and how important your continued support is to us.

For those of you that are yet to experience one of our adventures, we hope this gives you an insight into why we do what we do and how, by working together, we can achieve lasting positive global change.

All of our projects featured here are either funded directly by Camps International, or by generous donations through the Camps Foundation.