Education & Exploration Gala

At Frederick Douglass Academy VII, a public high school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, we believe children in underserved communities must not be hindered from receiving the best educational opportunities.

To that end, our school’s travel club sponsors amazing students, providing them with life-altering learning outside the States, with the world as their classroom. Following a transformational ten-day journey to Ghana with African Roots Travel last summer, we are journeying to Panama, Central America in late April to expose our scholars to the nation’s unique intersection of historical and cultural influences, continuing our greater goal of enacting generational change permeating our scholars’ communities.

Why: Because education and experience are the great equalizers, our best shot for opportunity to defeat disadvantage. Because “You got to go there to know there.” Because when our scholars taste what the world has to offer, they become hungry for more. They learn the world is their oyster, and they’re eager to pry it open. And it is because you can only learn that we’re all the same by meeting people you think are different.