CERES GLOBAL invite you to travel on unique participatory, cross cultural, educational and skill sharing programs. Each year we visit, learn from and work with our international partner organisations doing exceptional work in sustainability, the environment, community development, social equity and education. The trips are open to people of any age or background wanting to travel with meaning and purpose and willing to open their hearts and minds to another culture and way of life. Read more…
29 March – 12 April 2020
Learn about Permaculture and how developing countries use it to make social and environmental change. Work alongside world renowned local, Ego Lemos on a hands on school garden project.
9 – 19 April 2020
Join us on a journey through India exploring fashion through a sustainability lens, a philosophy of design that can be supported indefinitely and carefully considers environmental impact and social responsibility.
10 – 20 April 2020
Meet people regenerating land and livelihoods in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Practice Permaculture with remote Dayak communities, explore the forest with its stunning wildlife and peat swamps inundated with red water and help regenerate Orangutan habitat.
June & August 2020
We are privileged to run trips to the remote Homeland Community of Mäpuru in East Arnhem Land. A unique opportunity to learn about Yolngu culture from Indigenous leaders passing on their traditional skills and knowledge in basket weaving and bush survival.
Dates to be confirmed for June 2020
Building relationships with oceanic and marine protection organisations, to understand the impact of plastic waste on marine life in the Indonesian archipelago, and what we can do about it. This trip has a particular focus on supporting communities to transition away from plastic use.
Dates to be confirmed Sept 2020
Explore the traditional culture and folklore of the indigenous Kanak population. Participating in the daily life of tribes and villagers, we will gain insight into the intrinsic relationship of land, forest, animal, season, and ocean and how we fit in an eco-orientated system.
Dates to be confirmed for Sep 2020
We are returning to this enchanting community to build on our friendships and learn from the rich Samoan way of life. Travelling to the Islands of Upolu and Savai’i we will visit village communities and key environmental & social organisations.
Dates to be confirmed for 2020
After recently completing the first phase in our sustainable housing project, we return to work alongside local communities broadening our skill set and providing appropriate, quality sustainable technologies in the remote village of Jamnya in India.
No planned trips for 2020
Join us in incredible India on a 10 day journey re-imagining the dialogue around community development and education through an Asset Based Community Development Approach (ABCD).
No planned trips for 2020
We invite you on a very special 5 day journey along the breathtaking coastline of the Bay of Fires in Tasmania. The trip themes are rewilding, spiritual ecology and conversations and stories in nature.
No planned trips for 2020
In China we visit community, government, and private organisations exploring nutrition, organics, pollution, permaculture, climate change and alternative lifestyles. The theme is environment and sustainability issues, with a population and urban development focus.
No planned trips for 2020
Cuba captures the imagination perhaps like no other country with its music, rich lived heritage and Caribbean lifestyle. Join us on an trip focused on Urban Agriculture and sustainability to learn from its locals about its past and potential for the future.
CERES Global is the international outreach program of the not-for-profit CERES Community Environment Park. We are a Social enterprise with a passion for designing and facilitating group journeys into new cultural settings with the intent of creating a space of mutual learning and the exchange of ideas. Each year we organise trips to over 9 destinations and we welcome anyone to join us.
All trips run at cost price. Fees include meals, accommodation, transport, community & ongoing project contributions, facilitator support, pre-trip preparations and administration. It does not include flights, visas and items of a personal nature.
CERES Global News
Lessons on life from the people of Timor Leste
by Tyson Rory O'Shea CERES Global intern Our CERES Global trip to Timor Leste in July 2019 was an intense and immersive two weeks, packed with opportunities to learn about a country still recovering [...]
Forging connections in remote Indonesia
by Samantha Cunnington CERES Global intern My heart is up in the clouds, my mind is eager, and my eyes are wide open. Regardless of how cliché it may seem I truly have had [...]
Sustainable Fashion in India
by Saffron Scott CERES Global intern Australia is the second largest consumer of new textiles in the world. This mass consumption contributes to 500,000 tonnes of discarded clothing making its way into landfill every year. [...]
Exploring Permaculture in Timor Leste June 2018
by Jane Burns, CERES Education Outreach Area Manager I recently had the opportunity to facilitate a trip to Timor-Leste (East Timor) with CERES Global Education to learn about how this country [...]
Summer Dreaming
It wasn’t so long ago, those warmer Melbourne months; we had a great summer down at CERES and we’re looking forward to another. We are privileged to have this little green patch in East [...]
A Review of the Impacts, Causes, and Mitigation Efforts Towards Plastic Waste in Indonesian Coastal Environments
This Report was written by Nikita Cronyn from La Trobe University who joined us on our Indonesia trip in April 2018 looking at the impacts of plastic waste. This report is based on her findings from that [...]