Los Angeles Social Justice Day Trips
Tzedek America provides custom experiences for your school, religious school, summer camp, youth group or adult learning community. Each 3 to 5 hour trip, led by an experienced tour guide, includes a field guide, relevant Jewish text study materials, debriefing sessions and promotional materials for your stakeholders.
Thrift Shopping with a Purpose
Learning about the difference between a social enterprise and a non–profits by shopping at thrift shops and meeting the people who work at the non-profits headquarters. We will also gamify the experience by creating a fun contest.
Environmental Justice
Environmental justice 101 presentation and an interactive bus tour of past victories, current campaigns, and an overall tour of community resistance and organizing.
Food Justice
Learning about food deserts and food injustices in Los Angeles through the experience of growing, eating and making food. We will visit a restaurant whose mission it is to provide healthy foods at low costs to poorer neighborhoods, get our hands dirty in a community garden and learn about sustainable living by making our own jar of pickles.
Understanding Homelessness
A gentrification tour of DTLA and a walking visit to the neighborhood of Skid Row to meet someone who is currently or formerly homeless and to learn about several non-profits and social enterprises working on the issues of homelessness in Los Angeles.
Immigration Justice
Eat at a restaurant owned by a refugees (cost of lunch not included) and hear the owner’s story, meet a DACA recipients and meet organizations doing work to help the immigrants and refugees in our country, and possibly have an encounter with an ICE agent.
Honoring Older Adults
Participants visit with older adults in ‘long term care’ and connect through creative art therapy. Our non-profit partners train us in the morning which we lead during the day.
Racial Justice
We begin our journey at an African American church in Los Angeles and participate in joint social and critical thinking programming with fellow youth. We gain an understanding of history at the Californian African American Museum. This trip can include meeting with community organizers or performers who explore the issues of racial inequality.
Supporting People with Diverse Abilities
We visit various non-profits and social enterprises that work with children and adults with varying special needs. Activities and visits may include a theater that produces plays for blind actors and learning and participating in sports activities through sensitivity training and basketball practice.