OUR TEAM
Members of the Experiential Learning Asia team bring extensive on-the-ground experience from working across Southeast Asia over many years. This includes designing and coordinating experiential and service-learning programs for universities, supporting education initiatives in underserved and displaced communities, and working alongside local partners on media, communication, health and community development projects in complex and fragile contexts.
Team members have been involved in initiatives ranging from English-language education and teacher support in remote and marginalised settings, to community-led media projects such as newspapers and radio stations in refugee and conflict-affected areas. This long-term presence has built deep contextual understanding, trusted relationships, and a practical awareness of the cultural, ethical, and operational considerations required to deliver responsible programs.
This experience underpins how Experiential Learning Asia designs and supervises programs today, ensuring they are grounded in local realities, delivered with care, and aligned with the expectations of international universities and high schools.
OUR MISSION
Providing access to the best experiential learning opportunities across South East Asia.
OUR VISION
To be an experiential learning leader that drives effective, meaningful and measurable experiential learning.
WHO WE WORK WITH
We work directly with local leaders, experienced travelers, and volunteers. With this local knowledge and experience, we are able to connect with community-based organizations, family-run businesses, monasteries, social enterprises, and schools - each one delivering real impact to their local community. All our trips have been approved by local leaders and the community, without this, we wouldn’t have access to some of the places we will visit.
OUR PARTNERS
Every experience that we offer will strengthen the communities we visit, preserve their culture and traditions. The research we have done and the knowledge we have gained means that all you need to do is think about having the trip of a lifetime. With our local connections, extensive research, travel experiences and years of knowledge gained working on the ground, we are able to locate the most unique experiential learning and travel experiences for you.
We are partnered with Foundation For Shared Impact and The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Business and Economics, among others.
OUR FOUNDER
Our Founder, Carl Browne, has worked in the community development field within South East Asia for the last 15 years. Having seen the need for quality experiential learning projects, plus having a trusted network of contacts, the creation of ELA was the next natural step.
After designing and creating experiential programmes for multiple organizations from universities to primary education institutes, ELA now creates world class, impactful trips for both participants, and the local stakeholders involved, across the continent.
