– For schools & Educational Travel partners
Field learning in real regenerative sustainability systems
Help students understand global issues by seeing how one place is responding to them.
Green Youth Collective designs and delivers field-learning programmes across real zero-waste, circular economy, agro-ecology and land-restoration systems in Hội An and the lower Thu Bồn floodplain.
Students learn with local practitioners, investigate relationships they can see, take part in age-appropriate work and reflect on what these questions mean for their own school and community.
We work directly with schools and as a local programme provider for educational travel companies developing school trips, Week Without Walls, curriculum-linked journeys, CAS and service-learning programmes in Central Vietnam.
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Schools need more than a green activity
A strong field programme must engage students, connect with educational outcomes, work responsibly under real conditions and add genuine value to the place hosting it.
That is what we design for.
Our programmes turn issues such as waste, climate change, biodiversity loss and food-system disruption into questions students can investigate:
- Where do materials go after we use them?
- What prevents food resources from returning safely to soil?
- How does a floodplain respond to drought, erosion and seasonal flooding?
- Which plants help a landscape—and the people living within it—remain resilient?
- Who maintains these systems after a project or student visit ends?
Students encounter these questions through places where people are already doing the work.
What students learn by doing
Depending on the programme, students may:
- trace material, nutrient, food and water flows;
- observe a landscape and identify signs of ecological change;
- compare practical responses and recognise trade-offs;
- practise field inquiry, collaboration and problem-solving;
- learn from farmers, growers, waste workers and site operators;
- contribute through supervised tasks appropriate to their age and ability;
- reflect on how the questions can be applied at school or at home.
The purpose is not only to increase awareness. It is to help students observe carefully, understand relationships, make responsible thoughts and see where meaningful action begins.
Explore our Community Schools for Regeneration approach
Learning pathways
Circular Economy, Reuse and Zero Waste system
At Hội An Eco Hub, students follow what happens after materials enter a tourism destination or household. They investigate prevention, reuse, refill, source separation, material recovery and organics management—and discover why circular economy depends on people, infrastructure and shared responsibility.
Go deeper: Circular Tourism and Zero Waste
Food, Soil and Closed-loop Farming
Students explore how organic resources can return safely and usefully to soil, plants, animals and food production. Activities may connect composting, biological processing, soil care, farming decisions and the wider food system.
Go deeper: Closed-loop Farming and Agroecology
Floodplain Restoration and Climate Resilience
At REwild Land Restoration Farm, students learn to read a living, working floodplain through soil, water, vegetation, farming and local knowledge.
REwild is a landscape in transition of restoration process under continuous climate change and human disturbance impacts. Students encounter restoration as an ongoing process: observing current conditions, examining what is being tested and asking what recovery requires over time.
Go deeper: Floodplain Agroecosystem Restoration
Useful Plants, Biodiversity and Living Knowledge
At Hội An Medicinal Garden and REwild farm, students explore useful plants through propagation, soil care, sensory observation and conversations with local growers. They examine how biodiversity, everyday well-being and local knowledge remain alive when people continue to practise and pass them on.
Connected Learning Across a Landscape
A programme can connect several sites or several learning experiences in one site through one inquiry.
Students might follow food from tourism kitchens to organics recovery, soil and farming—or examine how water, plants, livelihoods, waste and visitor choices shape the resilience of the same destination.
This makes relationships visible in ways that a single activity or site visit cannot.
Why learn with us
Real systems, not staged activities
Learning takes place within local systems that are already operating, being tested or being restored. The work exists before students arrive and continues after they leave.
Global issues made local and visible
Students encounter climate, circular economy, biodiversity and food-system questions through materials, land, people and decisions they can see.
Learning from people who do the work
Local practitioners participate as educators, growers, operators, hosts and knowledge holders—not as background to the visitor experience.
Meaningful contribution with clear boundaries
Activities are selected for their learning value and relevance to ongoing work as well as the students’ age, preference, and connected school or community programs.
Reflection that travels home
Students are supported to document what they observe and experience through hands-on work and identify how the principles and questions can inform action in their own school or community.
For educational travel partners
We provide the locally grounded learning layer within your wider school journey.
Bring us your student profile, programme objectives, dates, group information and itinerary. We can adapt an existing module or co-design a programme that fits your learning brief.
Depending on the programme, our role may include:
- programme concept and learning outcomes;
- local system content and practitioner engagement;
- field delivery and facilitation;
- site coordination, materials and activity setup;
- route, timing and weather adaptation;
- student reflection and transfer activities;
- clear descriptions and supporting information for your school proposal;
- a partner pack covering programme format, capacity, operating conditions and rates.
Your organisation retains its relationship with the school and the wider itinerary. We provide and deliver the local programme elements agreed with you.
Operational roles, participant information, safeguarding responsibilities and duty-of-care handovers are clarified before programme confirmation.
[Discuss a programme partnership]
For schools
We work with teachers and school leaders to shape programmes around:
- student age and learning level;
- subject or interdisciplinary focus;
- curriculum and programme objectives;
- CAS, service learning or project-based learning;
- available time and group size;
- pre- and post-visit learning;
- accessibility, weather and participant needs.
Formats can range from focused 1–2 hour modules to half-day, full-day and multi-day learning journeys across connected sites.
[Co-design a school learning journey]
Designed for real field conditions
Field learning takes place within living sites, communities and seasonal conditions.
Before confirming a programme, we review the route, timing, activities, participant profile and site conditions with the school or contracting partner. Programmes can be adapted for heat, heavy rain, flooding, accessibility, available time and the suitability of activities for different age groups.
Students receive enough context to understand the place without turning the visit into a long field lecture. Observation, participation, rest, dialogue and reflection are balanced according to the group and conditions.
What contribution means here
One student visit can help students understand what sustained change requires. It can recognise and support the people who keep local systems working. It can contribute to appropriate tasks, local educator roles and continued care for the sites where learning takes place.
Most importantly, it can change how students understand their own role: from completing a visible activity to asking what makes responsible action useful, fair and able to last.
Continuous, long-term partnership with the schools and educational travel partners allow us to present the evolution of the place and of our ecosystem throughout the time. Come back following seasons or years to see the seeds of change you help sow.
Read how we approach Regenerative Tourism
One ecosystem, complementary roles
Green Youth Collective develops the place-based systems, partnerships and learning architecture.
REED contributes technical and operating practice in circular economy, zero waste and ecological solutions.
REwild Vietnam is the licensed field-learning, regenerative tourism and Travel with Purpose operator that adapts and delivers visitor-facing programmes.
Together with local practitioners and programme partners, we connect educational objectives with the real work of caring for a place.
See what change looks like across the ecosystem
Bring us your learning brief
To begin, tell us:
- the student age or grade;
- preferred dates and duration;
- approximate group size;
- curriculum, CAS or learning priorities;
- where the programme sits within the wider itinerary;
- any accessibility, health, dietary or operational considerations.
We will recommend a suitable site, learning pathway and delivery format—or co-design a programme with you.
Email: hanh@greenyouthcollective.org
WhatsApp: +84 978 134 277
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