Charities

Travel with a purpose

While Traveling, I enjoy visiting schools and playing with local kids. If there’s anything I can do to help, I try, even a smile at a stranger goes a long way. Here I feature a few Charities I think are totally awesome and worth visiting if you’re ever in the area or to donate!



Room to Read [roomtoread.org] – My #1 Charity of Choice which began in Nepal in 2001. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” I think the best thing a Charity can do besides the helping hand, is teaching them Self-Sustainibility. Room to Read raises money to build Schools & Libraries in over 10 countries in need of a better Education system. Kids with Education have a far likely chance of propelling out of poverty than those with no education, especially girls. Some cultures are not concerned or find it necessary to educate girls. Room to Read hires locals instead of outsiders to teach and involve them as teachers. They also involve locals as writers so the school books are Culturally appropriate.



Kids of Kilimanjaro [kidsofkilimanjaro.org] – George Namkung started this charity while trekking his childhood dreams of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. He has established a lunch program in schools that now feed 15,000 children a day, so that they have the energy to carry on throughout the day. Without proper nutrition, the children faint or wander off to pick berries off of trees. Without a proper education, it is extremely difficult for the kids to do anything other than raise cattle and farm. 



Kids with Cameras [kids-with-cameras.org] – A photographer from NYC empowers a group of children, who were born into the red-light district in Calcutta, by teaching them photography as a tool to ignite their imagination & build self-esteem. The purpose is to lift them out of poverty (through selling their photography), and lift them out of the fate of forced prostitution at an early age. The project had started as a documentary named “Born into Brothels”, 2002, which won many Academy Awards.