Members set up a weekly tutoring schedule to work woth the students of a nearby elementary school. To help raise funds for BWB, the Ida B. Wells Chapter members have organized an annual basketball tournament, held an annual car wash, and bake sales. Members of BWB have enjoyed some unique opportunities. These Treks are excursions to developing countries where BWB is building schools. Faculty advisors, social studies teachers, and students go on these trips.
Teachers take pictures used for slides, prepare a video, and collect items from the local culture.
Secondly, the Trek for Knowledge provides an invaluable opportunity for high school students to visit a distant part of the world, interact with the people in the village, and experience firsthand the life of people living in developing nations. In February of 1999, Richard Dillon, a global studies teacher at Frederick Douglass, and Najla Lyles, a BWB member, traveled together to Nepal with a number of other teachers and students. In the remote village of Jabki, nestled in the Himalaya Mountains, not too far from Mount Everest, the students and their teachers helped the villagers build a school. During the three weeks they were in Nepal, they lived in the village and they also traveled to Kathmandu to see sites of cultural, historical, and religious significance. A year later, Darryl Rascoe, also a global studies teacher at FDA, traveled with club member Christopher Lettley to the west African country of Mali, with other BWB students and faculty advisors from participating schools around the United States.