GivePower Legacy Treks: A Family Experience That Powers a Community and Shapes Generations

GivePower Legacy Treks are immersive, seven-day volunteer experiences that bring donors and their families to remote communities to help install a solar microgrid built around local needs. Currently offered in Kenya, Colombia, the Philippines and Nepal, each Legacy Trek creates lasting change for a community while building a family legacy of service across generations.

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The most powerful legacies aren’t simply passed down. They’re built together.

GivePower Legacy Treks offer donors and their families a rare opportunity to create lasting change for a community and build a legacy of service. During these immersive seven-day experiences, families and friends travel to remote regions without electricity and help install a solar microgrid designed around the community’s unique needs.

Globally, more than 230 million children attend primary schools without electricity, according to UNICEF, while WHO reported that more than 1 billion people are served by health facilities with no electricity or reliable power. That gap means students have fewer resources and only daylight hours to study. For health clinics, it can limit the ability to provide care after dark or use lifesaving equipment.

The need for reliable electricity reaches far beyond schools and clinics. Conservation teams in remote areas often lack the power needed to monitor and protect endangered wildlife around the clock. Many farmers are already sustaining their communities but lack the tools to process food more efficiently, preserve products and grow their businesses.

These communities are already doing incredible work. GivePower Legacy Treks help take that work even further.

Each solar project is developed with local leaders around the community’s priorities. Depending on those needs, a Trek may power schools, health clinics, food processing centers or other vital community spaces. Families immerse themselves in new cultures, forge connections and see firsthand how reliable electricity can empower an entire community.

For donors, GivePower Legacy Treks make the positive impact of their generosity tangible. They meet the people their support reaches, roll up their sleeves alongside the community and celebrate the new possibilities taking shape together.

For teenagers and young adults, the experience can shape how they understand the world and their place within it. They engage with new cultures and deepen their understanding of service, leadership and environmental awareness. In the process, they can discover just how big a positive difference their actions can make.

A GivePower Legacy Trek becomes part of a family’s legacy.

Long after families return, they carry memories rooted in connection and shared purpose. The experience can continue shaping a family’s values and the ways younger generations choose to give back in the future.

GivePower currently offers carefully curated, customized Legacy Treks in Kenya, Colombia, the Philippines and Nepal. While every project looks different, each Trek plants two seeds at once. One takes root in the community through reliable electricity that continues empowering locals long after Trekkers return home. The other takes root in the family through a shared sense of service, leadership and responsibility that can be passed from one generation to the next.

A GivePower Legacy Trek is more than a journey about giving back. It’s a chance to show the next generation what generosity and civic engagement look like in action. Most importantly, it’s a chance to build a legacy of service that lasts for decades to come.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a GivePower Trek?
A GivePower Legacy Trek is a customized, seven-day volunteer experience for donors and their families. Participants travel to a remote community without reliable electricity and help install a solar microgrid designed around that community’s priorities — which may power schools, health clinics, food processing centers or other vital community spaces.

Where does GivePower offer Legacy Treks?
GivePower currently offers carefully curated, customized Legacy Treks in Kenya, Colombia, the Philippines and Nepal. Every project is developed with local leaders around the specific needs of the community.

Who can take part in a GivePower Legacy Trek?
Legacy Treks are designed for donors and their families and friends, including teenagers and young adults. The experience is built to be multigenerational, helping families share a sense of service, leadership and responsibility across generations.