Eco Travel Services Fundraises for Overseas Communities at Travel Rave 2011!

ETS took part in the Web In Travel Conference and ITB Asia 2011, the Trade Show for the Asian Market in October and used the opportunity to raise awareness and raise funds for community projects in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. With the help of its student volunteers, ETS is pleased to announce that it has raised a total of $500 from shirt sales and donations for its various community projects during that week alone! ETS would like to thank all donors for their tremendous support.

T-shirt sales are still ongoing so you can still do your bid for society! Purchase one of the following t-shirts at $15 and all the proceeds will go to the communities that you have chosen to support.

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ETS Tee #1 - Support our Community Volunteer Centre Project in Vietnam!

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Community Volunteer Centre Project, Gia Bac

The Community Volunteer Centre is a physical centre that will have different facilities that serve different purposes to tackle the various social problems in Gia Bac, one of the poorest village in the Ho Chi Minh district of Vietnam. ETS has been developing sustainable projects in this community to improve the lives of the youths and its people.

The first section of the Community Volunteer Centre is the Community Library. Currently, there is no library in Gia Bac, even in Primary or Secondary School (There is only a primary and secondary school in this commune). With the library in CVC, ECO Vietnam Group aims to inculcate the love for reading for local students. ECO Vietnam Group, ETS local partner will work together with the schools and local community organization to utilize the Community Library.

The second section of CVC are classrooms designated for the teaching of Dance, Local Ethnic musical Instrument, Drama, and other enrichment programmes for youths. The local students in Gia Bac does not has any extracurricular educational program. The local teachers places heavily emphasis on the structured curriculum set by the government, and hence time is not set aside to teach students lifeskills. These classrooms will also allow Primary School/Secondary School serve as additional space for the schools to tap on as there is a shortage of classrooms in those schools as well. Those classes stated above also help to conserve the culture of the places and provide the platform for youth in Gia Bac to gather and learn some useful things.

The Volunteering House is the third part of the CVC. It is the place for the local volunteer from city, from corporate and foreign volunteers who want to give a hand in supporting the Gia Bac community. The Outdoor classroom and Sport area is the last part of the CVC. It creates more opportunities to engage youth in Gia Bac commune in educational activities. Other than providing the solutions for the social problems in Gia Bac commune, Community Volunteering Centre also play important part in education and raising awareness of environment.

About Gia Bac

Gia Bac commune is one of 18 commune of Di Linh district, Lam Dong province, Vietnam. The village is one of the poorest villages in Vietnam. The village only has one school that caters more than 800 students from kindergarten to Secondary School with fifty teachers. Due to the geographical nature, the villagers are only able to plant corn and coffee, which does not much provide sufficient income and is easily affected by the weather. In the village, the children are needed to work and help the family, so they are discouraged from attending school. It is also because of the remoteness of the village that the village receives very little financial or welfare aid from the government as well as from other organisations.

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ETS Tee #2 - Support our Community Based Tourism Project in Thailand!

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Project Lahu, Doi Pu Muen

ETS believes in contributing to the local community that it partners for its tourism activities. Hence, Project Lahu has been started to look into improving the lives of the hilltribe villagers in Northern Thailand through developing sustainable tourism. Eco Travel Services engages students and volunteers to help to improve the living conditions and basic facilitities of these villagers. We also develop the locals by teaching them to develop sustainable sources of food, clean water and shelter. We then equip the villagers with education and training the villagers in hosting tourists in their village for community based tour activities and eco tour activities.

About Doi Pu Muen

Doi Pu Muen is located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The village is in the mountains, nearly 1,306 metres above sea level. The highest mountain is Doi Pha Han Pok - 2,845 metres above sea level. The entire community spreads over a forest park, 18 km from Mae Ay centre and 170km from the North of Chiang Mai city hall.

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ETS Tee #3 - Support our Telecentres in Sri Lanka!

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Learn about how we help change the lives of children and youths in rural areas through the telecentres set up across Sri Lanka!

Telecentre Project, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has a critical  60 % school drop off problem in rural areas before age 17. This happens due to lack of education resources.  Eco Travel Services works with its local partner, Shilpa Sayura through innovative of ICT creates e learning spaces at Telecentres. We develop and provide local langauge e learning softeware and content free for national curriculum to help increase access to education in rural areas. During last 5 years we have helped more than 75000 youth in 150 villages. Now we need to up-scale it to reach 1 million youth by 2015.

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