Welcome to PUTNEY STUDENT TRAVEL
For 61 years, Putney Student Travel has offered high school and middle school students the opportunity and insight to shape their world through travel, unique cultural engagement, friendship, and fun.
We believe that an essential component of every young person’s education is passionate engagement with the world in the company of carefully selected peers–an experience that goes far beyond looking out the window of a tour bus.
Putney Premiere: Community Service Peru Video
Videographer Katie Schuler came along with our Community Service Peru group this summer to capture the essence of this wonderful program set in an indigenous village in the Peruvian Andes.
Check out more Putney Student Travel videos:
Finding Strength: A College Essay by Tori Callahan
Tori Callahan traveled to Rwanda this past summer as a member of our Global Awareness in Action program focusing on Community Health Care. She spent her summer meeting with NGOs in Rwanda, learning about the country’s tumultuous history, and connecting …
Language Learning France: A History of Immersion
We recently pieced together these then and now photos from Language Learning France and realized that both were taken by leaders who currently work here in the Putney Barn! The black and white version was taken by Co-Director Jeff Shumlin …
Safari in Tanzania with Putney Student Travel
The word “safari” entered the English lexicon from the Swahili word for “long journey”. While the Western conception of a safari began as a big-game hunt in the plains of East Africa, those on safari these days shoot nothing but …
