Tickets, Visas, and Itineraries CHECK!

Only 24 days until the team leaves for sunny Brazil! We have visas in our passports, the plane tickets are booked, and we have a TENTATIVE team itinerary.  Following find the planned itinerary with a map of where we are headed within Espirito Santo:

Vitória (State Capital): City tour; Individual vocational days; Hope Mountain - children at risk help project; 3H Project; Vale Train Museum visit (mining company's railroad museum); Integrated Emergency Response Center tour; Vale comany tour (ore pellets plants, ore harbor, railroad); Acacci - association against childhood caner.

Colatina: Festa do Cafona - Brazilian costume party; Mother's Day - usually with the host families; Coffee Farm visit; School visits; Other industry visits.

Linhares: Tamar Sea Turtle preservation project site visit; Vale's Forest (preserved forest maintained by Vale mining company) visit.

Aracruz: Aracruz Celulose plant - pulp (used to make paper) visit; Social projects in the city sponsored by Rotary

Back to Vitória: Fund raising concert held by a former GSE member musician - for Polio Plus fund; Rest and evaluation meeting.

Guarapari: Samarco plant (also ore mining and export company) visit. Beach visit.

Cachoeiro de Itapemirim: Milk cooperative visit;  Marble and granite industry visits; Tourism; Vocational day.

Guaçuí: Tourism; mountain tours.

Venda Nova do Imigrante: Ecotourism and "agrotourism" visits.

Back to Vitória: Arcelor Mittal (metalurgic plant) visit; Cajun (at-risk children support organization) visit.

Linhares: District Conference

Should be a blast!