Humber is becoming a greener campus and everyone is participating! Humber Sustainability Highlights feature people and departments around the College integrating sustainable practices. This month’s focus is the School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism’s Service Learning Trip. Humber is heading to the Tundra! From May 4-10, the HRT will be doing a Service Learning Trip to Arviat, Nunavut for 10 days. Humber will take seven students to this Inuit village to help community leaders set up, manage and sustain after-school programs; literacy games and activities; and sports and recreation programs. “We have students from the Sport Management, Recreation & Leisure Services, Fitness and Health Promotion, Travel Services Management, and Nutrition & Healthy Lifestyle Promotion,” says Sherri Branscombe, faculty trip leader. “Our goal is to bring expertise in these programming areas by working with leaders and youth in the community, but more importantly to work with community members to sustain the programs once we have left.” The idea came from a now Humber alumnus of the Recreation and Leisure Services program. Danielle MacMillan has been travelling to the Canadian North since 2010, delivering recreational and educational programs in isolated communities. “I've always felt so privileged to have had those opportunities to travel, learn and teach so that when the opportunity to share those experiences with others came up, it seemed like a no-brainer,” said MacMillan. Located on the western coast of Hudson Bay surrounded by flat tundra, Arviat’s population is about 2,800. “The diversity of culture, language and geography in Canada is so amazing but most of us only get the chance to see a small part of it,” says MacMillan. ”This trip is giving students the opportunity to visit places they might never otherwise get the chance to explore.” When students are not working in the community, they will have the chance of a lifetime to see the migration of the caribou, witness pods of beluga whales, and take part in a dog-sledding tour. HRT has partnered with the Hamlet of Arivat - Community Development Department, Jays Care Foundation and High Five. The fundraising supports the projects and initiatives that the students will be implementing, including staff training. For more information, contact Sherri Branscombe at sherri.branscombe@humber.ca