We’re pleased to welcome Kwesia, a Member who participated on our Peruvian Amazon expedition in 2018, as an Explorer Ambassador for British Exploring Society.
Kwesia grew up in Deptford, an inner-city area of South-East London. She experienced homelessness, struggles with mental wellbeing, and other challenges that come with living in an area, and with people, who have often been neglected, excluded, and marginalized.
She joined us on British Exploring Society’s expedition to the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest in 2018 and spent three weeks in a remote part of the jungle learning to live in the outdoors and carrying out science and media projects.
On her return, she began to think about connecting with other people, particularly with young people like herself, to explore if a connection with nature could touch others in a similar way it touched her.
Since then she has started City Girl in Nature as a way to give back to her community and share her love and passion for the outdoors, and the belief that everybody should have the chance to be healed, nourish and to live a life of abundance.