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October 4-18. Tilburg, Amsterdam, Utrecht.
After our presentation in New York, we traveled to the Netherlands to attend the wedding of Kamiel’s brother and meet his family. On October 15, we presented Charity Travel at the Monticus Montessori school in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, we started writing on the CT-book and worked on the last …
Our presentation in Manhattan
teatro circulo, 64 East 4th Street. October 4th, 7pm ETAfter a year of travelling for the Good, it is time for a presentation.
You can expect a clear TED-like presentation of our idea, an anecdote-packed recount of our journey, tips on how to do-it-yourself, and a discussion about the virtue of …
Camillus House Homeless Shelter
October 1st, 2010. Miami.This year, Miami’s famous homeless shelter “Camillus House” celebrates its 50th anniversary and moves to a new location. They will continue supporting the people of the street with counseling, medical assistance, activities, education, food and shelter. Kamiel visits and gets a good impression.
Name:Camillus HouseAim:To …
Você pode mudar o mundo viajando? Claro, existem pessoas excêntricas que percorrem o mundo e nos permitem patrociná-los, ou ricos filantrópicos que fazem uma sopa no deck da cozinha do seu iate. Mas e as pessoas normais, aqueles que pagam impostos? Além das conhecidas viagens ecológicas e socialmente corretas nós não podemos fazer muito mais. …
Summer is well underway and we crash into a Malaysian July, about to leave the northern hemisphere and turn things around. My memory of this day is faded, but I think we have visited an huge cave complex, photographed the golden statue with restless pigeons swarming around it. And the stray monkeys clambering on the …
Summer is well underway and we crash into a Malaysian July, about to leave the northern hemisphere and turn things around. My memory of this day is faded, but I think we have visited an huge cave complex, photographed the golden statue with restless pigeons swarming around it. And the stray monkeys clambering on the …
COMPA, El Alto, Bolivia
September 22-28, 2010. El Alto, Bolivia.In the high satellite city of El Alto above La Paz, there is one of the most amazing Community Art Centers we’ve ever seen: COMPA. Established 1989 they have a wealth of experience playing social theatre for disadvantaged people throughout Bolivia. We paint part of the …
Fundación Ñanta, Sucre, BoliviaSeptember 19-20. Sucre, BoliviaThere are about 6,000 working children in Sucre, and half of them are independent, working as shoe-shiners, car-washers or selling items on the street. They often work under terrible conditions and drop out of school. Foundations such as Ñanta guide them towards a hopeful future through cultural activities, healthcare, …
Charity Travel to samodzielna, wielka, pelna przygód podróz dookola swiata, laczaca ekscytujace podrózowanie ze wspieraniem maloskalowych projektów charytatywnych, w ten sposób inspirujaca innych (mlodych) podrózników do podazania za naszym przykladem. Charity Travel pragnie pokazac, iz w obecnych czasach mozna ominac wielkie biurokracje i pracowac indywidualnie z malymi organizacjami charytatywnymi, które naprawde potrzebuja pomocy.
Kladziemy nacisk …
Asociación Sucrense de Ecologia
Sucre. September 17, 2010.
Environmental education and awareness creation is important in a country like Bolivia, that is sitting on a wealth of natural resources and needs its citizens to be thoughtful about exploitation and environmental issues in general – for the sake of future generations.
Name:Asociación …
Charity Travel (CT) is an independent large adventurous journey around the world, combining exciting traveling with supporting small-scale charity projects, thereby inspiring other (young) travelers to follow the example. Charity Travel wants to show that nowadays it is possible to bypass large bureaucracies and individually work with small charities that really need help. The emphasis …
Publicity for small ngo’sWe have experienced first-hand how travelers can contribute to small ngo’s by documenting their projects and writing about them. What it takes.
What it takes is sharp observation, an open, investigative spirit, and any kind of digital camera, a. A publication on a traveler’s blog can go a long …
We will publish ideas that are relevant for Charity Travel here, that can be thoughts or things.
Thoughts are for example related with the management of NGOs, the improvement of charity-platforms on the internet, the establishment of trust-networks, de-growth, microfinance, car-sharing, why we should help the underprivileged, the state of humanity, the plight of …
introducing a scale
working with MFI, also with regular NGOs
benefit wider outreach, efficient lending
Serve at least 1,000 active borrowers with microfinance services
Have a history (at least 2-3 years) of lending to poor, excluded, and/or vulnerable people for the purpose of alleviating poverty or reducing vulnerability
Be registered as a legal entity …
Casa del NiñoSalta, Argentina. September 11, 2010.The poverty in the province of Salta is not directly visible from the capital’s fancy street cafés, yet hundreds of thousands of people live in slum areas around the city, and poverty is ubiquitous in the region. Casa del Niño supports impoverished, often terminally ill children by giving them …
Ko’eju, Chacarita, AsunciónSeptember 7-8. Asunción.On the stretch of land between the Bay of Asunción and the pink parliament building is the famous Barrio Chacarita, where hundreds of poor families are living. Ko’eju is a Christian organisation offering vocational training and gatherings. We support a family with equipment to set up a micro-business that sells juice …
Peut-on changer le monde en voyagant? Il y a bien sûr des excentriques qui traversent le monde et nous permettent alors de les sponsoriser, d’autres, philantrophes, qui organisent un événement sur leur yacht afin de nous lever des fonds. Mais alors le contribuable moyen?
Mis à part les causes évidentes telles celles écologiquement et socialement …
Books and Articles
Bill Clinton, Giving
le monde diplomatique, Atlas of Globalisation
Oxfam, The pocket humanitarian handbook
Movies and Videos
The Story of Stuff by Ann Leonard
Obama’s Speech in Berlin
messagefrompandora.org Cameron’s special feature about the dam at Belo Monte
Michael Moore in Norway
We feed the World | Food, Inc. | The Future …
L.I.F.E. ArgentinaBuenos Aires, August 30-September 1.In Buenos Aires there are certain areas, like Villa Ciudad Oculta, that you can’t find on the map. They often don’t have clean drinking water, electricity or gas, and the police won’t enter there. The local ngo LIFE Argentina organizes events for children, supports soup kitchens and delivers school supplies. …
Nuestra Casa shelterSantiago de Chile. August 23, 2010.Nuestra Casa is a unique shelter for the homeless, supporting and encouraging their clients on their way back into society. The organization provides affordable food and shelter for 30 homeless men in Santiago and organizes activities to reintegrate them. They generate 51% of the home’s income themselves, doing …
Microfinance in Western Vitu Levu (MFW)Lautoka, Fiji. August 17-19, 2010. The main problem for small entrepreneurs in Fiji is affordable access to finances. The government runs a number of microfinance schemes but seems to be backing out and expecting them to be self-sustainable, which is a tough challenge. In successful cases, small businesses mean that …
Peut-on changer le monde pendant un voyage? Bien sûr, il ya des excentriques qui sautent autour du monde sur une seule jambe et qui nous permettent de les soutenir, ou philantrophes riches qui organisent une soupe populaire sur le pont de leur yacht. Mais le citoyens normaux? Mis à part les choses évidentes comme voyager …
A lot of what Charity Travel is doing amounts to spreading expertise and good ideas. Whether a mind-changing broad insight or a smart technological tweak, ideas are invaluable yet free as the air we breath.
To underline this, we present on these pages a series of creative ideas from various fields.
Feel free …