Responsible Travel – You Have The Choice
To Our Friends,
Alesha in addition to I created NOMADasaurus a piddling less than a twelvemonth agone alongside the vision of promoting sustainable tourism in addition to long-term travel. The ‘sustainable tourism’ utilization of our mission is based on our belief that through the ways nosotros travel, the regions nosotros see in addition to the choices nosotros brand on how nosotros pass our coin in addition to where tin have got a positive impact on communities in addition to families that are non equally fortunate equally ourselves. Another quest it is ‘responsible travel’.
Travelling opens upwards the doors to a globe that tin live both incredibly rewarding in addition to desperately unfortunate. While many of us dorsum inwards the ‘real world’ are to a greater extent than concerned nigh which novel shoes nosotros are going to purchase in addition to whether it is fourth dimension to upgrade our TV or not, at that topographic point are tragic circumstances occurring every twenty-four hours that nosotros are trained to ignore.
According to UN Water, 783 1000000 people create non have got access to create clean H2O in addition to almost 2.5 billion create non have got access to adequate sanitation. 6 to 8 1000000 people die annually from the consequences of disasters in addition to water-related diseases.
805 1000000 people do non have got plenty food to atomic number 82 a salubrious in addition to active life. 21’000 people choke every day from hunger related causes.
Please convey a instant to recall nigh how substantial those numbers are.
It is tardily to ignore these stats in addition to figures in addition to instead focus on our ain lives in addition to the issues nosotros have got going on betwixt ourselves, friends in addition to family. It is the normal affair to do.
We are non hither to tell that the problems nosotros confront dorsum inwards the ‘first world’ are non important. Of course, yous must assist yourself earlier yous assist others. But Alesha in addition to I are travellers inwards a unique seat to witness some of these ‘foreign problems’ get-go mitt in addition to nosotros experience obligated to assist out when in addition to where nosotros can. When it comes to responsible travel, nosotros are huge advocators. Sustainable tourism is at the forefront of our thoughts in addition to continues to fuel the burn downward within us.
It is difficult to tell which charities involve to a greater extent than assistance over others in addition to who is to a greater extent than deserving of our help. Recently the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral in addition to raised many funds for a neat cause, despite the questionable values of the society that received the donations. Everyone has their ain see of where they would similar to run into their coin spent in addition to everyone deserves that choice. In this i detail situation, 5’600 people are diagnosed alongside ALS every year. This is quite upsetting, I agree, in addition to it is incredible that in addition to therefore much assist has been given to those who are affected yesteryear this debilitating disease. Over $100 1000000 in addition to counting in addition to therefore far! But who suffers more?
The motility that Alesha in addition to I experience the most passionate nigh is access to create clean drinking water. The numbers mentioned higher upwards scare the shit out of us. I come upwards from a identify where I tin bathe myself for hours inwards create clean water, in addition to straight off I am backpacking inwards a province where nearly one-half of the population does non have got access to the same luxury merely to survive. It is something nosotros convey for granted in addition to is tardily to ignore when nosotros cannot run into it alongside our ain 2 eyes.
This is non a work that is impossible to rectify.
Compared alongside the billions (and trillions) of dollars governments or in addition to therefore the globe are spending on war, imprisonment, immigration in addition to unfortunately greedily pocketing themselves, non much is actually needed to brand a huge difference. It is estimated that as piddling equally $10 billion would live required to render create clean drinking H2O to the entire population. Or merely 1.2% of the world’s military machine expenditure. Or merely 15% of what the citizens of US of America spends on alcohol in addition to tobacco every year. Or less than what the Australian authorities has committed to spend on some shiny novel fighter jets.
Are our priorities actually inwards the correct place?
In Cambodia, where nosotros are travelling correct now, 20% of deaths of children nether the historic catamenia of 5 are caused yesteryear drinking muddied water. To us, this is unacceptable.
In a small-scale test to assist combat this terrible situation, we have got donated the funds required to construct a H2O well inwards a rural hamlet hither inwards Cambodia. This post service is non nigh big noting our pittance of a donation. It is non a agency to justify our ideas of responsible go in addition to sustainable tourism. We create non consider ourselves heroes, or kings in addition to queens of charity, pretending to relieve the globe spell I sit down hither writing on my Apple laptop. We create non have got all the answers in addition to indeed nosotros are far from perfect ourselves. Simply pose this is something nosotros felt obligated to do. The to a greater extent than nosotros travel, the to a greater extent than nosotros learn. This post service is nigh promoting awareness.
If yous are inwards a seat to go delight live affair nigh how in addition to where yous pass your money. Choose responsible travel. Eating at corporate fast nutrient chains in addition to solely staying inwards international hotels does piddling to run into your difficult earned coin brand a positive impact on local communities. Avoiding developing or pitiful countries because of fearfulness in addition to beingness uninformed affects many people, yourself included.
How tin yous help? By buying nutrient from the street vendors. Staying inwards locally-run guesthouses. Purchasing your supplies from small-scale convenience stores inwards your finish instead of the marketplace chains at home. Don’t give coin to children who inquire but instead back upwards an firm that industrial plant personally alongside these underprivileged kids.
Some restaurants, cafes, tour companies in addition to other businesses operate closely alongside communities in addition to charities. Sometimes the prices they have got for services in addition to products are a piddling higher than yous tin acquire elsewhere. Step dorsum in addition to recall nigh how that extra few dollars out of your ain steal tin potentially assist a worthwhile cause. These types of expenditures are worth paying to a greater extent than for.
If yous have got the fourth dimension to volunteer alongside an organisation, live real careful nigh which i yous choose. Do your enquiry in addition to ensure the skills yous render in addition to the coin yous pass volition live utilised properly. Don’t create it for yourself, for a Facebook picture, to enjoin your friends dorsum abode how yous ‘saved the planet’. Do it for the planet in addition to for its people. Responsible go is the key.
Realise that donating a lump amount of coin is non the solely mode to brand a difference, although this is indeed worthwhile. All yous involve to create is brand witting decisions. If yous are already travelling, or are planning on travelling, yous tin brand a positive departure if yous pick out sustainable tourism. Even if merely i time on your journeying yous sacrifice a piddling flake of luxury to render describe concern or assistance to someone who needs it, yous are helping the cause. If would similar some to a greater extent than advice on the best ways to create this, delight contact us.
Life is nigh choices, but this solely applies to those privileged plenty to live born alongside these choices available to them. Not everyone has the luxury to live reading a go weblog on the internet. To live dreaming nigh seeing the world. To live considering spending coin on a vacation instead of scratching to run into where the adjacent repast is coming from. We are extremely lucky. Don’t forget it, or convey it for granted.
If you’ve made it this far, give cheers yous real much for reading. If yous agree, delight percentage this around. If yous have got suggestions, comments or criticism delight allow us know. Open the give-and-take for meliorate ideas on responsible travel. Promote awareness. Promote sustainable tourism.
If yous are able to travel, go responsibly. Make that pick in addition to stick yesteryear it. Your actions tin have got a big impact.
“Be the alter that yous want to run into inwards the world.” – Mahatma Ghandi
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Lesh in addition to Jazza
NOMADasaurus
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