Month: september 2010

COMPA
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 ...
Ñanta
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
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.
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Asociación Sucrense de Ecologia
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.




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Charity Travel
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 ...
Connecting the World, one visit at the time
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 ...
Ideas
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 ...
Open Letter to KIVA
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 Niño
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 ...