Hello, thanks for visiting our group travel blog! This website is meant to bring awareness to climate justice challenges in the Pacific as experienced by College of Wooster students during a 3-week study abroad trip to Fiji and Tuvalu in June 2026. The trip is part of a credit bearing course, “Climate Justice and Religion in the Pacific,” which aims to learn about how religious institutions in the Pacific are responding to climate change impacts in the region.
We’ll have daily updates between June 6 – 25, all posted by College of Wooster students and all highlighting our experiences in this beautiful region. Each day will include photos, stories, and lessons learned as we interact and build relationships with local youth, grassroots activists, government ministers, church leaders, and more. Please come back and visit us each day to see new posts!
Our primary goal: To amplify the voices of Pacific peoples by bringing awareness to issues of climate justice.
Our team will spend 10 days in Suva, the capital of Fiji and the political and economic heart of the region. Our hosts, the Pacific Conference of Churches, will connect us with leaders from local government, academia, non-profit organizations, and grassroots leaders, all of whom are highly involved in climate change work from the hyper local to the global level. We’ll visit a village that has already been displaced by sea level rise, volunteer on an eco farm that is reforesting part of their land thanks to carbon credits, take a trip on a traditional Uto ni Yalo sailing vessel, and participate in a World Ocean Day march… right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Next we’ll spend a week in Tuvalu, one of the most remote and lowest lying island nations in the world. We’ll experience incredible hospitality as we build relationships with the leaders, grassroots activists, and local youth of the island. This tiny strip of land is actively fighting back against the rising seas, and the population of just 14,000 is taking an active and outsized role in global climate politics. Our students will hear a Tuvaluan perspective on climate change that emphasizes justice, reciprocity, and respect for indigenous rights and leadership.
Finally, we’ll end our trip with a few days in the beautiful Yasawa Islands, unpacking our experiences and brainstorming on how we can use these experiences to help build support for climate justice policies back in our daily lives at home, in school, and with our communities.
The costs for this trip have been subsidized through a generous donation from the Wallace Genetic Foundation, and we want to give a hearty “THANK YOU” to them for making this experience possible for our students!
Pacific Climate Justice TREK 