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Travel philanthropy goes digital
A humanitarian online radio show is collaborating with Do512 and Fly for Good to promote philanthropic efforts around the world.
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Doubletree helps Feed the World this holiday season
Doubletree has partnered up with the UN to combat worldwide hunger with its new “Community Drive to Fight World Hunger” campaign.
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Looming climate change adds even more stress to humanitarian aid
With climate change-related disasters frequently occurring throughout the world, humanitarian aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the increasing demands of affected communities.
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Still think climate change is a hoax? 23 million starving Africans disagree
As agricultural and water-supply devastation sweeps across the globe, our food and resource supplies will dwindle to nothing. On this small and fragile planet, East Africa is a lot closer than many will admit.
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Understanding Philanthropic Travel
“Ultimately conservation is about people. If you don’t have sustainable development around these (wildlife) parks, then people will have no interest in them, and the parks will not survive.” -Nelson Mandela
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Jeep adventure tours help humanity in India
Participants explore remote desert villages in the stunning, geographically-unique region known as the Little Rann of The Kutch – traveling each day to different villages to distribute school supplies and provide medicine and critical health care for needy villagers.
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Humanitarian travel adventures through the Thar Desert of India
The award-winning, humanitarian-based adventure travel company Relief Riders International (RRI) has developed an all-new humanitarian program for 2010 that leads humanitarian expeditions on horseback through The Thar Desert of India and into the mystical Southern Rajasthan.
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Humanitarian village in Rwanda part of Protravel’s commitment to social responsibility
Thanks to a fundraising partnership between Protravel International’s and FXB USA, an international humanitarian organization, the new Protravel-FXB Village in Cyeza, Rwanda has finally launched – offering a comprehensive package of healthcare, education and economic opportunities to 500 impoverished children and adults.
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Tourists can help stop child sex tourism in Peru
Young women and girls, as well as boys, are being exploited by a commercial sex industry fueled by increasing numbers of tourists who visit Peru to engage in sex with children. Travelers are banning together to help put an end to child sex tourism, or trafficking, out of Peru with a new campaign that aims to put pressure on the Peruvian government to pass sterner laws regarding the commercialization of children.
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Volunteer travel is on the rise
A recent survey has shown that, even during a global economic crisis, volunteer travelers find true value and unmatchable life experience while traveling abroad.
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Teen nature and wildlife adventures in Costa Rica
Wilderness Ventures is offering service programs to teens in Costa Rica’s Savegre Valley. This Costa Rican teenage community service exploration is an exciting combination of diverse adventure travel and stimulating cultural immersion in an unspoiled tropical paradise of pristine beaches, exotic wildlife, and a rainbow of colorful flowers and birds.
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‘Humanitourism’ tackles animal welfare in Greece
“Humanitourism” travel addresses the largely unknown animal welfare crisis in Greece with an assistance adventure trip in June 2009. Participants help improve the lives of the countless domestic animals in Greece struggling to survive under tragic and inhumane conditions, centered in Ioannina, located in the mountains of northern Greece, the Zagoria region. Travelers then embark on an eco-adventure tour of this lesser-known but extraordinarily beautiful mountainous region, to include trekking, rafting, sea kayaking, culture and history.
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Help stop child exploitation in the travel industry
As tourism and international travel across the globe reaches unprecedented levels, so does the need to combat child labor and sexual exploitation in the global travel industry – that is why the United Nations body for tourism is taking action now.
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New humanitarian travel adventures promotes medical and health relief in India
Relief Workers International (RWI), a new venture that will bring travelers to Gujarat, India, is scheduling two trips for the beginning of 2009, with an innovative mix of altruism and exciting adventure travel.
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Giant sea turtles swimming up to safe haven in Panama 
New adventure travel site launches to help “Book the Adventure of a Lifetime” 
San Francisco welcomes new shark exhibit in name of conservation 
Boeing helps Haiti rebuild, schools are top priority 
‘Freedom to Travel’: How will an ease on Cuba travel restrictions affect the industry? 
Sustainable hotel brand Adoba helps ‘Move America Forward’ with William Shatner 
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