discover the world beyond your block...
discover the world beyond your block...
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Grow and Discover program offers a 16-week intense learning opportunity designed to empower, equip and prepare underrepresented and marginalized middle and high school students for domestic and international hands-on travel and introduces them to careers in the travel industry. This program encourages leadership and global citizenship while aiding meaningful personal growth. The Servitude, cultural exposure, and exciting excursions allow participants to learn about the world and their place in it first-hand. After broadening student's horizons, we work with participants to connect them with career coaches in specific professional fields that they show interests in.
eligibility criteria
eligibility criteria
13 to 20 years of age
Student does NOT possess a passport; student must be in possession of original birth certificate.
Parental permission to travel and willingness to sign media release form.
Complete application
Grow And Discover retains right to disqualify applicant at any time if criteria is not met.
passport sponsorship
passport sponsorship
We want to enable all students to learn and grow through domestic and global travel opportunities.
Students accepted into the educational program and demonstrating a financial need can apply for our Passport Sponsorship Program year around.
video challenge
video challenge
Must follow us @growanddiscoveryouthtravel on Instagram.
Be a 13- to 20-year-old student in the Pacific Northwest area.
Have never had a passport.
Tag a minute or less video with #passportshorts @growanddiscoveryouthtravel Introduce yourself and tells us how you feel travel can impact your future.
The Grow and Discover team will select a monthly winner based off creativity and content.
Register using link below
Register using link below
it started 12 years ago...
it started 12 years ago...
During a time when the United States was celebrating the second election of a BIPOC President, we realized our family didn’t know much about the government let alone traveling to Washington DC, so, we saw this as an opportunity to send our 17-year-old daughter with an organization that was known for their work in abroad studies. However, we didn’t know she would be the only BIPOC student on the trip with this organization. With excitement and optimism, we gathered up $4000 to send her to the inauguration hoping she would learn something that would interest her in wanting to know more about this great country. Not only did she come back excited, but she also came back wanting to learn more about travel and ended up graduating from the Air Academy School in Vancouver, WA.
That experience really spoke to us and we decided we needed to give other BIPOC youth in our community an opportunity to learn and grow through hands on travel experience. We started helping single mothers in our community by educating their young people on how to save finances, start a checking and savings account, research and discovering information on the destination they would travel to. We taught them how to develop an itinerary, address challenges faced during travel, travel safety and simple travel tips. Not only were the young people impacted, but their parents also learned in the process and have started traveling as a result of what their young people shared. The biggest barrier is finances that is why Grow and Discover is a program under Kingdom Emergence a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that requests the support of sponsors to help provide this opportunity to our youth.
James & Katina Collins
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