Global Impact Trip Program

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Global Impact Trips Provide:

Life-changing experiences and lasting memories with your family friends or corporate team over 11 days.
First-hand experience of your legacy through celebrating the official opening of the school together with the local community.
The tools and strategies to inspire your children/grandchildren to become compassionate grateful and engaged citizens in their own communities and on a global stage.

Participate In:

Collaborative focus groups with parents/grandparents on how to inspire and raise children and grandchildren of wealth.
A women's Savings and Loans group meeting to learn how they are changing the landscape of business in the developing world.
A women's Cascade Group meeting to learn how they are solving chronic malnutrition and reducing infant mortality rates.
Strategic planning meetings with community and business leaders addressing local and global issues.

A Life Changing Experience. Be a Part of It!

Our Previous Trips

Global Impact Trip 2025 – April

In April 2025, Schmidt Family Office clients and team members returned to the Nebaj region of Guatemala alongside Expand Hope and Food for the Hungry teams. While there they revisited Chichel to open a second school in response to growing community needs before traveling onward to Vichibala to celebrate additional school openings.

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Global Impact Trip 2025 – February

The first Global Impact Trip of 2025 brought Schmidt Family Office team members and clients to the communities of Chichel and Juil in February, where they joined Expand Hope and Food for the Hungry in marking the opening of new schools serving local children and families alongside the community in which their impact will unfold.

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Global Impact Trip 2024

Experience the highlights of our 2024 Global Impact Trip. This video captures heartfelt moments of teamwork, learning, and cultural exchange as a group made up of members of Schmidt Family Office accompanied some of our clients to open Expand Hope schools dedicated in their honour. Alongside Expand Hope and Food for the Hungry team members, we celebrated the opening and delivery of four new schools, to the communities of Pexla Grande, Vicampanavitz, and Vicalamà.

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Global Impact Trip 2019

Join the Schmidt Family Office™ team, representatives from the Mascots Race for Hope 2018, and anonymous donors as they open schools 3, 4 and 5, in the communities of Chacalte and Antiqua Xonca in March 2019.

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Global Impact Trip 2018

Join the Schmidt Family—Marvin, Leah, Joshua, Téa & Keats—at the opening of their second Expand Hope school in the community of La Pista in March 2018.

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Global Impact Trip 2017

Join Marvin Schmidt and the field team as they celebrate the opening of the first Expand Hope school with the community, La Pista, in March 2017.

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Create and experience impact on a Global Impact Trip. For more information contact our office.

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Expand Hope^® works alongside their field partner to build schools in Guatemala, and facilitate Global Impact Trips.
Expand Hope is a registered Canadian Public Charity: #815802723RR0001
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