Charity Travel

Flying to Kenya tonight

12 March 2012. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Finally, plans materialize and we are flying one-way to Nairobi tonight. We're very much looking forward to seeing our friends again, helping the "Joy Valley" orphan home cum school in Kayole and learn a lot about hands-on local development. We don't have exact plans in Nairobi. All we know ...

Book Publishing – Traversing Africa

Book Publishing - Traversing Africa
29. September 2011. Rabat / Seoul
Yeon and Kamiel have decided to work from different locations for a little while. Yeon will be promoting her book about Charity Travel in South Korea the coming month, while Kamiel will try to travel from Morocco to Kenya overland on a budget. If ...

Probability Practise, helping the Poor

Can we help the poor simply by increasing the probability that a skillful independent helper or her organisation finds them?

William Easterly, the development economist and author of "The White Man's Burden" makes a famous distinction between "Planners" and "Searchers". The Planners have led most of the development efforts over the past 40 years ...

charity travel goes kindmankind

Charity Travel goes Kindmankind.
May 2, 2011. BerlinWe the people of charity travel have created a platform where independent volunteers can find and share grassroots initiatives around the world. Thanks to some amazing people, the collection of free and no-fee "volunteering opportunities" is already huge and our kind community of independent changemakers is contributing ...

October 4 – 18. News Update

News Update
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 ...

OCT 4th: Presentation in Manhattan

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 ...

July 1. Still in Malaysia.

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 ...

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 ...

Join Charity Travel

We are promoting a concept/movement rather than an organization. You can join us simply by incorporating the idea of "charity travel" in your own journey. In the near future, we will plan a professional tour to empower the poorest communities on this planet with portable techniques and knowledge, but that's another story.

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