Planeterra Foundation offers 10 trips/accommodations
New! Volunteer With Children In PhuketNational Geographic Tour of a Lifetime 2010/2011 
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New! Volunteer With Children In Phuket
Phuket Thailand
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13 Days • from $1,249* per person
Provider: Planeterra Foundation From the lush hills of the north, stitched through with the diverse colours of its hill tribes, to the soft sands of the south and the glorious chaos of Bangkok, Thailand will leave you captivated. Spend time assisting at a school on Phuket and local community project in southern Thailand before heading to Chiang Mai to trek through the hilltribes.Trip Highlights:Phuket, Visit and day in community with Koh Pra Thong Project, Volunteering at a school for disadvantaged children, Khao Sok,… more |
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Save The Albatross
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Save The Albatross
Buenos Aires Airport, Argentine
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14 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation The ‘Save the Albatross’ campaign was launched in response to the fact that many Albatross species are headed towards extinction. The campaign is aimed at preventing the slaughter of these magnificent birds, by ensuring the implementation of relevant international agreements that will benefit both the birds and the legal fishing industry. This program also works towards the conservation of albatross species through research on trends in threatened populations, interaction between albatross and fisheries, and the development and use of seabird-safe… more |
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Sea Turtle Conservation Project
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Sea Turtle Conservation Project
Playa Matapalo Airport, near Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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14 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation This sea turtle project is a science-based conservation program, which was created with the purpose of protecting female sea turtles, nests, and hatchlings laid on the Matapalo beach, against poachers and natural and introduced predators. A turtle hatchery protects the eggs of this endangered species and the program has ensured the survival of the sea turtles with a large increase in the number of hatchlings in the area. Local staff and volunteers also collect information about nesting activities that is… more |
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Red Hill Pre School
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Red Hill Pre School
Cape Town International Airport, South Africa
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14 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation The Red Hill Pre-School is located amongst the informal settlement of Red Hill Township, outside Cape Town, South Africa. The Pre-School is made up of over 30 children between the ages of 2 and 6. They attend school 5 days a week and are provided with two meals each day and educational activities that include outdoor play, songs, dance, art, reading, writing and many more. A Child Sponsorship program has also been established to provide parents with the support needed… more |
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The Tibet Eye CampsNational Geographic Tour of a Lifetime 2010/2011 
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The Tibet Eye Camps
Kathmandu airport, Nepal
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14 Days • from $1,899* per person
Provider: Planeterra Foundation Each year we sponsor a micro-surgical eye camp in a rural region of Tibet and have helped restore sight to hundreds of people with a simple and highly cost-effective cataract surgery. Our support also helps trains local doctors and has been used to purchase surgical cataract instruments for a remote health clinic in rural Tibet. more |
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Limuru Children'S Center
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Limuru Children'S Center
Airport, Central, Kenya near Limuru, Kenya
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14 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation The Limuru Children's Centre (LCC) is situated amongst the tea fields of the Kenyan highlands, on the outskirts of Nairobi. LCC has three main programs; long-term care, day care and feeding program, and academic scholarships.LCC currently has 35 boarders that are under their care full-time, aged 4 – 15 years old. These children are either orphaned, or come from an unstable family environment. For those children that have relatives, LCC works hard to reunite them with family members, if they… more |
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Nicaragua Mobile Library Project
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Nicaragua Mobile Library Project
Airport near San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
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7 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation The Nicaragua Mobile Library Project provides resources to students and community members in the town of San Juan del Sur and the surrounding areas. The library offers educational enrichment programs for pre-schoolers, textbooks for reference and study for older students, and an environment conducive to reading and studying for all.Additionally, the San Juan Del Sur Mobile Library runs the Library in a Box program, which mentors other groups wanting to start lending libraries and offers a 100 book seed collection… more |
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Amazon Community School
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Amazon Community School
Airport, Ecuador near Quito, Ecuador
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14 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation Over 10 years ago G Adventures (Formerly Gap) began working with a local family in the Ecuadorian Amazon to develop a community-based tourism program where travellers are given the opportunity to experience daily life in the jungle, with Delfin Pauchi, his wife Estela and their six children. When we first started working in this community, children had to walk several hours to get to school but with funds generated through our community-based tourism program and the rest donated by community… more |
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Peru Women'S Weaving Co Op
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Peru Women'S Weaving Co Op
Cusco Airport, Peru
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14 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation Since 2005, we have been working with the Ccaccaccollo community to develop a women’s weaving cooperative. Most G Adventures groups are able to visit this community as part of the Sacred Valley Tour where they meet the women and learn about all the stages of the weaving process; from hand-spinning the wool, dying the wool using natural dyes, and participating in a weaving demonstration. Travelers are also given the opportunity to purchase high quality textiles directly from the women who… more |
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Brazil Community Reforestation Program
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Brazil Community Reforestation Program
Sao Paulo Airport , Brazil
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7 Days • Contact provider for price
Provider: Planeterra Foundation Planeterra is working with local communities in Southern Brazil to reforest their lands. This program, which has resulted in 450,000 trees planted since 2009 provides the communities and local farmers of Guaranta, Promissão, Arco Iris, and Marília with access to training workshops and seedlings, so that they can increase food production, create natural barriers on their lands, provide shade and fodder for livestock and other animals.Agroforestry students from the University of Londrina are working with settlement populations to help provide… more |
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