Reuse and Give Back

Thank you for deciding to include Choose Earth as part of your WorldStrides experience! Our hope is that through the Certificate, Program Leaders and their participants will acquire practical and useful sustainable skills they can not only employ while with WorldStrides, but can take those same skills back into their communities.

For this Choose Earth Certificate, the focus is on WorldStrides’ plastic reduction initiative Fill it Forward. This program is ideal for programs that want to make a conscious effort to limit their single use plastic while traveling. There are three key aspects as the program lead you will take your participants through while on your trip:

• Focus area curriculum and learning

• Completion of Fill It Forward eco-challenge

• Facilitation of a group reflection

The Choose Earth focus area curriculum and learning will include a brief introduction of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are associated with Reducing Waste. There are instructor materials that we suggest all program leads read through so they can become knowledgeable on the UN SDGs and Choose Earth. Following, there will be the learning tools that Program Facilitators will share with students including an activity that will visually demonstrate this environmental problem leading to the materials for the group’s eco-challenge.

If throughout the Choose Earth journey Program Leaders experience any issues or questions, reach out to the Corporate Social Responsibility Team at csr@worldstrides.com.