Month: juli 2010

June 16. Working Day.
This is a working day. We take the tuk-tuk to town and go shopping. I buy all kind of stationary for KNGO, ranging from a soccer ball to a few hundred notebooks, pens, bilingual storybooks to paint supplies and buckets. It is easy to find and we are quick and efficient, I like that so ...
June 15. Battambang
We arrive in Battambang in the morning, where Sun Saveth picks us up with his tuktuk. He has told us that his ngo (and his family) is poor. In order to make money, he has become a tuktuk-driver. We hope to be able to support him making his small ngo sustainable. Saveth has arranged accomodation ...
Charity Travel in the Media
This page is a compilation of other websites writing about Charity Travel:
article in "de betere wereld" (Dutch)article in The KyungHyang Shinmun (Korean)bloginterviewercouchsurfing.orgcrazybird.nleco media AustraliaFinnair magazine May-June 2010GiveMeaning.orgGone for GoodGood Paper SingaporeTravel Deals - One Travel
Stewardship ReportUdavi PayanamVision Alive TeamWikioIf you find an article mentioning Charity Travel, please tell us about it so that ...
Travellers can be more than consumers alone.
Can you change the world by traveling? Sure, there are eccentrics who hop around the world on one leg and allow us to sponsor them, or rich philantrophes who organize a soup kitchen on the deck of their yacht. But the normal tax payer? Apart from self-evident things like ecologically and socially responsible travel we ...
June 14. Happy.
The time at SSF is wonderful. I feel happy. I would like to work for such an organization when I am big. But will they let me? Ah, will they? They want me to have a diploma. Did napoleon have a diploma? I am so happy here.
We go to the marketplace again to buy ...
June 13.
The guesthouse is comfortable, and we got a good night's rest. The following morning we show up at the foundation and organize a paper maché workshop with the children. This time, there are no disasters and the little ones show their amazing creativity again.

In the afternoon, we visit several of the villages that ...
June 12. SSF my love.
We get up, move towards the river, order breakfast, buy bus tickets to Kampong Speu, where the foundation we are working with is located, and wait for our pickup service. The jolly, chubby man selling me these tickets has acquired a comfortable space with a view in the citadelle of my memory. Kampong Speu is ...
Text demopresentation
Welcome everybody, my name is Kamiel Verwer and I come from Holland. That's V-e-r-w-e-r. I am sure you are all on social media? Would you like to add me as your friend on...? I won't mention any companies, don't worry. But as it happens I found a guy with the same last name "verwer" living ...
June 11. On to Cambodia. A one-liner.
We take a bus to Cambodia in the early afternoon, leaving me just enough time to enjoy a last cinnamon frappucino or whatever it was. Bus service is up to international standards, it's just another boring ride with some waiting at the border but no major difficulties. Yeon get her 25 dollar visa at the ...