CheckWorld
Beyond the Horizon
For most kids, the world is limited to the sky above their heads, the familiar paths of their community, the trees that wave at the edge of it, the river that hums behind their home...
They see the rest of it as confined to a three-dimensional terrestrial globe with a tilt— static, distant, and unreal. The great cities of the world are merely names in textbooks, and ancient civilizations are faded drawings on posters.
This is why we exist.
We exist to help children 'Discover the more'. Beyond the trees at the edge of their immediate community, beyond the bend in the river, beyond the skyline they wake up to each day...
We want to show them a world of small wonders and great discoveries. From the ant that navigates the floorboards to the mountains that pierce the clouds...
We want to show them that history is not just words on a page, that geography is not just coordinates on a map. We want to introduce them to science that is about the stars overhead, the ecosystems they walk through, and the forces shaping their world.
This will explain why our activities revolve around taking students from underserved schools and communities beyond the limits of their everyday world, and into the big, wide world, guiding them through classroom outbound adventures that encourage discovery, challenge perspectives, and answer all their questions about the world...
We want to empower them to realize something powerful: THE WORLD IS WITHIN REACH.
We Think Outside,
No box Required
That's our philosophy! Albert Einstein once said: 'Education is experience, everything else is just information.'
At CheckWorld, we believe in two things; education should be expeditionary, it should be a living, breathing adventure. An experience felt in the rush of wind atop a mountain, heard in the echoes of ancient ruins, seen in the endless horizon stretching beyond the sea. It should not just teach facts, it should inspire, equip, and it should be accessible.
For children who have only known the world as a collection of trees, a winding river, and a sky they wake up to every day—we open the door to something bigger and take them beyond the ordinary, beyond the familiar, beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.
That's what our trips are about; they are not about advanced education, nor are they for replicating classroom lessons or directly complementing ongoing classroom teach-talk. They are simple adventures that educate students about the world and the universe as a whole by transporting them from the confines of their classrooms to the heart of expeditions so they can explore anthropology, unravel the principles of archaeology, discover the wonders of paleontology, venture into the depths of oceanography, unknot the mysteries of geology, decipher the codes of cryptography, uncover the secrets of meteorology, study the intricacies of biology, witness the breathtaking beauty of the natural world through the lens of ecology, and push the boundaries of human knowledge in the fields of astronomy and geography. They're about transforming students' perspectives of the world, broadening horizons, and challenging their assumptions.
We carefully curate these quests into programs and then hand the expedition permit to the young minds who would otherwise be lost without it.
So they may see the world not just as a globe but to truly understand it, to believe in its complexities, meet its diversity, and know its depths, to foster a deeper appreciation and empathy for its people, its cultures, and complexities, to inspire them to become global citizens who think critically, creatively, and empathetically about the world, to empower them to become well-versed, globally aware, and equipped to navigate the complexities of the world.