This is a story about travelers giving back. It’s a story of people working together to support communities far from home. And it’s a call to action: buy a $10 ticket for a chance to win some fabulous prizes and become part of a story about bringing clean water to a couple of communities in Haiti.
Washing with clean, safe water in Haiti. Photo courtesy of Water.org.
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Filed Under: Hope for Humanity by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
5 Comments | 27 November 2012
Before you continue reading, go to your nearest water faucet, turn it on for a few seconds, turn it off, then stand back.
The simple task you just performed constitutes a dream for nearly a billion people around the world. Why are we telling you this? Because we hope to use our birthdays this month as a platform to give to an organization that aims to deliver on that dream, one community at a time.
And we’d like your help.
Women collecting water at a well in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Filed Under: Hope for Humanity by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
9 Comments | 9 August 2012
This is not a story. It’s a call to action: buy a $10 ticket, get a chance to win some awesome prizes, and help out a few communities in Zambia.
Over the last few of years, Passports with Purpose (PwP) has built schools in Cambodia and village houses in India. This year, PwP is headed to a new continent with a new mission: to build libraries and raise literacy in Zambia with Room to Read.
Get books into the hands of village kids like this in sub-saharan Africa.
And we’d like your help to make it happen. Don’t worry, getting involved with PwP, helping to build a library and putting books in kids’ hands halfway around the world is easier than you think. It’s kind of fun even. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Hope for Humanity by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
4 Comments | 30 November 2011
We offer the following slideshow of girls we’ve met during our around the world travels in support of The Girl Effect, an organization whose goal is to promote awareness of girls’ issues around the world and to highlight the benefits of investing in girls as a means to poverty alleviation, better public health and community development.
The more we travel and see the world, the more I realize how fortunate I am. I grew up in a family that valued me as a female. They supported my education, encouraged me to pursue whatever profession I could possibly imagine and never pressured me to get married.
This favorable circumstance and social flexibility is still a rarity in many parts of the world.
With a group of school girls at a mission school outside Srimongal, Bangladesh
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Filed Under: Hope for Humanity, Perspectives by: Audrey Scott
17 Comments | 4 October 2011
Thanksgiving, an American holiday fueled by family gatherings and gratitude, came and went last Thursday. Unfortunately, we were away from home this year so we couldn’t spend this occasion with our family. But this was borne of our own choice, circumstances of our own making.
In contrast, many people in this world do not have this choice. Simply put, they cannot go home. Because of their political or religious beliefs, they face persecution and the threat of injury or death if they do.
We met two such families this past weekend in Bangkok. While speaking with them and getting a glimpse of their lives, we began to comprehend what it really means to be a refugee: a life in fear, a life of prolonged uncertainty, and a life of fighting for survival. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Hope for Humanity, Perspectives, Southeast Asia, Thailand by: Audrey Scott
16 Comments | 30 November 2010
Buy a ticket. Win a prize. Help build a village in India.
Here’s the story.
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Filed Under: Hope for Humanity by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
3 Comments | 15 November 2010
Throughout this journey, it has continually been impressed upon me that being a woman in many parts of the world is still no easy task. The force of prejudice and the impact of poor education, difficult working conditions, low pay and limited access to medical care make life challenging for women around the world.
Hope remains, however.
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Filed Under: Hope for Humanity, Perspectives, Photography by: Audrey Scott
15 Comments | 8 March 2010
If you find yourself in the giving mood and stuck for an idea this holiday season, we offer a few gift ideas from our online shop and some charitable donation ideas from organizations we’ve recently discovered. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Business, Hope for Humanity by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
2 Comments | 14 December 2008
When times were difficult during the years following independence, the men felt sorry for themselves and the women carried on with the business of providing for the family.
- a Georgian friend explaining the situation there during the early 1990s. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Central Asia, Hope for Humanity, Kyrgyzstan by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
No Comments | 4 January 2008
As the first tourists to take advantage of the Svaneti Mountaineering Tourism Center (SMTC), we planned our arrival in the town of Mestia to coincide with the organization’s inaugural party. Because of our exceptionally long ride from Zugdidi to Mestia, we barely arrived in time for the opening speeches, including one which singled us out and unexpectedly turned the local crowd’s attention to us. Continue Reading »
Article Series - Svaneti
- Svaneti: Why and How To Go
- Svaneti, A Mountain Inauguration
- Blue Eyes, Gold Teeth: The Fabled Land of the Svans
Filed Under: Caucasus, Georgia, Hope for Humanity, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
No Comments | 19 August 2007
