But if you want to know just how affected the 36 girls who took part in the 20th annual service trips to each location were by their experience, just ask them about prom.
"All the other girls are still talking about dresses, shoes and nails," said Jen Mallinoff, 17, of Glen Arm.
Not them, though. After coming from a place where the people had so little materially — but were spiritually rich — Mallinoff and the 19 other NDP students have found little time in their lives for the extravagances of that particular rite of passage.
