BLACK GIRL GOES ACROSS EUROPE

Leanna Graham Start Date: May 16, 2025 - End Date: Sep 15, 2025
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Volunteer Trip
  • Milan, Italy
  • Valencia, Spain
  • Netherlands

My Travel Story

by: Leanna Graham Start Date: May 16, 2025 - End Date: Sep 15, 2025
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Volunteer Trip

Hi all!! 

I'm doing some trips this year and would LOVE some financial help to do so!  I'm off to the Netherlands Milan and Valencia in a 2 month time span and can't wait to go but the bank account doesnt agree. 

As a black girl I've feared travelling. I went to Bulgaria and I love my Bulgarians but they don't love me haha! So I've decided to try again and try to get some help whilst I'm there. 

I'm getting a degree in sociology and I know people think it's a meaningless degree but to me it's everything. Learning about other cultures and cuisines mean so much to me because it plays an impact into our life. I'm a black girl and with my intersections of being black and a woman it's created a lot of fear in me but I don't want to have it anymore. I want to enjoy life and it starts with these trips. Based on my travels so far, I've decided to become a sociologist and make papers talking about the here and now rather than looking at books writing in the 1900's. You help make this dream of mine a reality. 

I chose these destinations because they will help give me a broad scale. Living in England, I have one crossed off.  Spain and Italy are two big ones but not Barcelona or Rome. Valencia and Milan. It gives me a true insight into the city and culture and I love that perspective rather than being in a hotel on a resort and not experiencing life. 

I paid for these trips when I had a decent amount of money but now they approach abd I have limited to nothing. Something, anything helps. Even if you put in £1 £10 or £100 it goes to me experiencing life just that little but more. I want to put money into the experience and hopefully Youll put money into me 

  • Milan, Italy
  • Valencia, Spain
  • Netherlands