The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver have embraced the opportunity – and the responsibility – to take action on climate change by aspiring to be a carbon neutral Games. The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) has assessed the unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions from all their operations leading up to, and for holding the international […]
Read MoreDuring the last decades there has been a growing tendency of looking for alternative ways of tourism development in order to slow or arrest the deterioration process of contemporary mass tourism. In a way this process can be described as a search of alternative and responsible tourism that would be an antithesis of mass tourism. […]
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PEPY, “Protect the Earth, Protect Yourself” is a non-governmental organization registered in both the US and Cambodia. PEPY’s mission is to aid rural communities in improving their own standards of living, with a focus on increased access to quality education. Since the beginning, the founders of PEPY have recognized that successful and sustainable programs require […]
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Ready to go? Not really …it’s getting hectic, still need to pick up the t-shirt from Auny in Seven Sister, get the last technology for the equipment, clean the house, pack my bag…4 hours to go…mission impossible? No got it! …for sure something is missing… as usual.. “clak” too late – House door close it! […]
Read MoreThe bad news is that children in poor countries are still sexually exploited by travellers, The good news is that you can do something about it: Child sex tourism is the commercial sexual exploitation of children by people who travel from one place to another to engage in sexual acts with minors. Often, child sex […]
Read MoreThe Akilah Institute for Women is located in the Bugesera district of Rwanda, 35 minutes from the capital of Kigali. During the 1994 genocide , this region was severely targeted by militias; more than 80 percent of the Tutsi population was killed. Today, Bugesera has the highest rate of child-headed households in the country. In […]
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“Combine development work with an active holiday” Sandshoe is an NGO combining the areas of education, sustainable development and sports. The purpose of the organization is to support local development in Las Tunas village, in Ecuador, through financial aid and volunteer tourism. The cornerstones of its work are responsibility, sustainable development and playfullness with sports […]
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Madagascar: nel cuore della foresta nasce un progetto per lo studio e tutela della straordinaria vita naturale dell’isola, in stretta collaborazione con gli abitanti dei villaggi locali. MadAction , questo ? il nome dell’iniziativa, sta realizzando una stazione di ricerca per proteggere la foresta pluviale di Maromizaha, coinvolgendo le persone in attivit? di educazione, tutela […]
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The Teuco Tropical Forest Project is co-financed by the European Union and the non-governmental organization, VOLENS. The project has created a cooperative agreement with the National Parks Administration, which pronounces the territory of the Toba Meguesoxochi community a Protected Watershed Area, or API in Spanish. The project studies the management of the forest, beekeeping, forest […]
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This is a story of a trip that started as a tourist and ended up in being an andventure in one of the most adventurous forests in the world. Quoting a superfamous 3D movie, I believe it’s true: Pandora is here and I decided to volunteer to stop tree cutting and wildlife hunting. But first […]
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