What is the Ecuador Mission Team?
The EMT is a group of Whitefield Academy Upper School students whose goal is to
travel to Quito, Ecuador each summer to serve in a Christian school for underprivileged
students called the Love and Hope Foundation. We have sent a team each year since
2004.
Who guides the Love and Hope schools?
Community Ventures International is the parent organization that oversees these
schools.
Who can participate?
WA Upper School students may join the EMT. Other students at all grade levels may
contribute to the project.
How do all Whitefield students get involved?
Students support the EMT in these ways:
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Kindergarten classes donate their money bags at the end of the year. (Money bags
of change are used during the year to teach money management and stewardship.)
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LS Spanish classes have pen pals at the school in Quito.
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The EMT sponsors Hasta La Pasta, an annual fund raising dinner preceding the Lower
School Spring Musical.
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US students sell Chick-Fil-A biscuits.
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US students sell snow cones at the Back to School Picnic.
How does the school get involved?
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The school contributes paper recycling funds.
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The school donates funds received through the Publix Partner Program. (Cards are
available at each school office and the Campus Store.)
Who funds the trip?
EMT members raise the funds to cover their individual travel expenses, with guidance
from the trip leaders, and funds raised at school pay a portion of the team expenses.
How do we measure our students' effectiveness?
We see hearts touched. We see lives changed. We see 12 children whose tuition at
The Love and Hope Foundation school is being paid by members of the EMT. We see
faculty members working diligently each year to help the EMT achieve its goals.
We see Whitefield Academy recorded as part of the history of
CVI.
Visit the 2009 EMT blog to see photos and a journal from this summer’s trip.
For more information contact EMT at
