Tourism, travel, leisure and sports
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Fútbol Project (TFP)
Fútbol Project (TFP) aims to empower underprivileged and orphaned children and young adults through sports; and to build relationships between children and youths in the global north and those in the global south. TFP donates sports equipment to organisations that work with youth with an...
Fabretto Children's Foundation
Fabretto Children's Foundation mission is to enable impoverished Nicaraguan children and their families in underserved communities to break the cycle of poverty and reach their full potential through programs promoting education, nutrition and health, and community development.
Gulf For Good
Gulf for Good is a charity which organizes exciting adventure challenges around the world inspiring people to do something unusual. Participants raise funds, which are then donated to handpicked charities in the region where the challenge is held. Gulf for Good has four main goals: - to bring...
UN, Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP)
National Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) provide the guiding framework for low-income countries in their efforts to attain the MDGs. A number of countries have integrated sport into their PRSPs. Many developing countries, however, are still unaware of the ways in which Sport for...
Diversity Travel
Diversity Travel is a specialist charity travel agent which, in collaboration with its airline partners, can offer charities and not for profit organisations a range of charity fares with various airlines. These special fares include features such as additional excess baggage, flexibility of...
Wesbank Sports Academy
Wesbank Sport Academy is an organisation based at Kuilsriver, near Cape Town. The Academy provides facilities for four sports, including soccer for men and women, drum majorettes, rugby and netball.
Mercy Huts
Mercy Huts is a small Christian organisation registered in Australia that aims to establish an eco-friendly beachfront surf retreat that will provide financial support, employment and training in hospitality and tourism for families living in poverty on Rote Island, Indonesia.
Uganda Sport for Health, Recreation and Development (USHRD)
Uganda Sport for Health, Recreation and Development (USHRD) is an NGO that exists to help people in the Isingiro district improve their quality of life through sports such as soccer, volley ball, net ball, and athletics for schools and communities. The organisation has completed a girls’ sports...
Hakuna Matata Project
The Hakuna Matata Project is a community based organisation in Kenya. The Project aims to provide a home and shelter for women and children built in an eco-friendly way and to establish a permaculture-designed farm that will provide healthy, nutritious food for the residents. There are also plans...
Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan - Creating Value for All: Community-Based Tourism
Tourism is a rapidly growing industry throughout the world. It can contribute to poverty alleviation through creating new jobs and providing entrepreneurial opportunities for people from a variety of backgrounds, skills and experiences. Community-based tourism - a type of tourism that is owned and...
Mercy Corps and Nike promote Sports for Peace and Life in Sudan
Mercy Corps has been working in Sudan using sports as a way of both rebuilding post-civil war communities and educating young people about HIV/AIDS. This effort has been supported and greatly helped by Nike's donation of large amounts of sporting equipment to the project.
Carlson
Carlson (previously named Carlson Companies) is one of the largest family-run and privately-held corporations in the United States with business in the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, Carlson brands and services, including...
Fair Trade Sports teams up with Project Hope Worldwide
Fair Trade Sports Inc, a company that manufactures sports equipment in the US, has teamed up with Project Hope Worldwide.
Creating Value For All: Community-Based Tourism in Kyrgyzstan
Community-based tourism (CBT)-a type of a tourism that is owned and managed by the local community and its members- has emerged as a mechanism to facilitate locally based tourism activities in many developing countries, including the Kyrgyz Republic. The first CBT group was established in May 2000...
Indonesia's tourism industry is getting tsunami ready
Following the Asian tsunami the Indonsesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism has partnered with the Bali Hotels Association (BHA) to improve tsunami readiness amongst hotels. The initiative is supported by the German Centrum für Migration und Entwicklung (CIM).
The Veolia Foundation helps Bulgarian children with disabilities to experience outdoor activities
The Veolia Environment Foundation has made a grant to the Get Involved" Project of Outward Bound Bulgaria, an organization that provides outdoor adventure courses for young people.
Southern Water supports WaterAid in a variety of ways
Southern Water, its employees and customers have supported WaterAid since 1981, promoting WaterAid through organising and taking part in fundraising events and making donations.
Through an initiative of ASGN, micro-credit and tourism save giraffes in Niger
ASGN (the Association to Safeguard the Giraffes of Niger) used grants from the Wildlife Protection Foundation in the UK and from the Zoo de Doue in France to set up a successful micro-credit scheme.
Timberland partners with Big City Mountaineers to provide wilderness experiences
Timberland partners with Big City Mountaineers (BCM), an organization uniting volunteer mentors with urban youth for life-changing outdoor journeys.
ConocoPhillips signed the Gold Sponsorship deal for ROTA's Wheels 'n' Heels
In February 2008, ConocoPhillips Ltd Qatar was the exclusive Gold Sponsor of Qatar-based NGO Reach Out To Asia, ROTA’s, third Wheels 'n' Heels community fun day.