Key safety features
Our first priority is to ensure the safety of all participants.
We achieve this through the following measures:
Prior to departure
- Rigorous training for teachers, students and staff
- Thorough risk assessments carried out prior to each expedition
- Medical advice from a world expert in expedition medicine
- Maintaining close working relationships with Embassies in each country
- Following State Department advice
- Highly trained, qualified Expedition Leaders
- Minimum of 1: 8 ratio of adult to students
- Expert local knowledge and support from World Challenge in-country agents
- Comprehensive first aid kits for every team
- State-of-the-art satellite communications equipment including satellite phones and satellite beacons
- 24-hour Operations Center in London to manage incidents ranging from illness, injury and repatriation to lost passports and baggage
- Comprehensive multimillion dollar insurance coverage for each participant - includes medical expenses, repatriation and evacuation
- International network of medical support centers through First Assist
- Supported by Royal & Sun Alliance - an international medical assistance agency with access to a network of medical support centers to advise on recommended hospitals and offer medical assistance
- Rapid Response Team
- Ability to wire money anywhere in the world from our Operations Center
- Ability to divert expeditions up to the time of departure
