This website is visited by the family and friends of participants in Putney Student Travel's Community Service program in Cape Three Points, Ghana to check in on the progress of the group.
Monday, June 30, 2008
The group has arrived
We've received word from the leaders that the group has arrived in Accra. They will spend tonight and tomorrow night in Busua Beach before heading to their village, Cape Three Points, on Wednesday.
British Airways June 29: BA182 JFK/LHR 10:30 P - 10:20 A on June 30 June 30: BA81 LHR/ACC 2:15 P - 8:10 P July 28: BA78 ACC/LHR 10:40 P - 6:40 A on July 29 July 29: BA175 LHR/JFK 10:25 A - 12:55 P
Trip Leaders
Kelsey Burns and Dakota Casserly
KELSEY BURNS
Saint Lawrence University, B.A. cum laude, Spanish. Kelsey spent her junior year studying literature, art history, ecology, and theater at Colegio Mayor Isabel de EspaƱa in Madrid, Spain. At Saint Lawrence, Kelsey worked as a peer tutor, a teacher's assistant for the Spanish department, and in the International Office for the Spain Study Abroad program. She was a member of the women's lacrosse team and the Outing Club. Kelsey has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. This will be Kelsey's seventh summer with Putney Student Travel. She has led a Language Learning program in Spain, Community Service programs in Ecuador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic, and assistant directed the Global Action programs at Yale this past summer. Kelsey works full time at the Putney Student Travel office in Putney, Vermont as an Associate Director and Leadership Coordinator. She is responsible for organizing Putney's programs in Spain, Ecuador, and Ghana and hiring the Putney leaders. When she isn't traveling, Kelsey loves to hike, bike, read, and dance. She is fluent in Spanish.
DAKOTA CASSERLY
University of Vermont, B.A., Business Administration, Minor in Environmental Studies; University of Nevada, Reno, Master of Land Use Planning degree candidate. While at UVM, Dakota was an active mentor with the Vermont DREAM Program, a youth mentoring organization. He also played varsity lacrosse, was a member of the Consortium for Ecological Living (CEL) and attended UVM's Costa Rica Travel-Study Program, where he studied ecotourism and culture. After graduation, Dakota worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer with the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, and received the State of Nevada's AmeriCorps Volunteer of the Year award. The following year Dakota taught English in Thailand and explored Southeast Asia. Presently, when not working on his graduate studies, Dakota enjoys life as a bike commuter and explores the Sierra Nevada Mountains.