our developing world(odw) upcoming 2008-2009 tours:
- Cambodia/Laos March 12-April 1 2008
Approximately $2,849 including Vietnam, not including air
- Ecuador August 18-Sept 1 2008
Such diversity! Mountainous Quechua,
Rainforest people, Afro Ecuadorans on the coast And a variety of experiences in Quito including the bilingual/bicultural school Yachay Wasi, the Middle of the World, a communitiy clinic, old town, and much more.
- El Salvador/Nicaragua February 15-March 1 2009
- South Africa July/August 2009
15 days in their winter Be come energized by grassroots people making a difference (more details to come)
All odw tours are non-Hilton adventures for ten flexible travelers who want to see for themselves, focusing on people: social, health and economic development.
Ecotours use local guides and locally owned accommodations that support their communities.
A Tour of Hope
The Hope of the People
Focusing on people: social, health and economic development
Come home energized!
our developing world(odw)
a tax-exempt education nonprofit provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14397
for 20 Contact Hours RN fee $100
University credit also possible
$200 deposit saves your place!
Programs our developing world is offering:
- Latin America: The Struggle and Hope for Positive Change
- Ecuador: Struggles and Hope
- The ongoing saga of the suit against TEXACO/CHEVRON oil pollution
- Update on the election
- Learning from South Africa
- The Water Story from Stockton to Vietnam to Nicaragua
- Privatization: Nicaragua Electricity as a Model
- Election: What Now?
- International Debt: Who Owes Whom?
- Poverty Reduction: Dream or Possibility?
- The Plight of Children: in Poverty, Labor, Trafficking, Education and Health
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our developing world(odw)
Cambodia/Laos Reality EcoTour including Vietnam
$2,849 not including air
March 12-April 1, 2008
Vietnam only $500 March 26-April 1 no trans Pacific airfare
March 12-18 Phnom Penh, Kampot
March 18-20 Siem Reap (Angkor Wat)
March 20-26 Luang Prabang with day trips to villages
March 26-April 1 Vietnam (Hanoi, Ha Long Bay visiting villages enroute
Hue and Saigon)
For ten flexible travelers to feel for them-selves the spirit of the wonderful people
Cambodia: Forgiveness, Moving On
Phnom Penh Orientation
- Visit a Rehab Center for landmine and polio adult and children survivors where many of the staff themselves are using protheses or wheel chairs
- Talk with women helping women with HIV/AIDS supported by Friendship with Cambodia
- See the Pol Pot Museum, once a high school turned into a prison
- CHA, Cambodian Handcrafts where landmine survivors learn to weave and make beautiful handcrafts
- Traditional Dance
- Eat at a restaurant run by former street kids
Kampot
- Drive to Kampot, a provincial capitol to overnight
- Visit a government agricultural research center to learn about rice growing with low water use, agricultural extension work
- Visit rural families working with Cambodia Children's Advocacy Foundation who have built fish ponds, improved their lives in a variety of other ways
- Visit their pre-school programs
Siem Reap
- Visit the amazing wonder of the world: Angkor Wat, several times in various parts
- Visit a Street Kids program supported by Friendship with Cambodia
- See how rural poor youth are being trained in traditonal crafts to carry on and be able to repair Angkor Wat
- Landmine Museum, an educational project for locals to recognize the mines
Laos, The Gentle People
Luang Prabang
- Visit a Hmong village, possibly talk with a shaman
- Boat down the Mekong, stopping at the holy Buddha cave, an agricultural village, and wine making, quilting villages
- Visit Wats and temples
- Evening market
- Waterfalls
- Visit an afterschool program for all ages
- Visit a hospital (possibly old, new and
the one for foreigners)
- Phousi Hill for the view and sunset
Vietnam itinerary
Hanoi
- Museum of Ethnology
- Tour around old town in the evening
- Dental clinic
- Crafts center for agent orange survivors
- Vietnam Women's Union and projects
Ha Long Bay
- Boatride to enjoy the limestone mountains in the bay lunch on the boat
- Villages on return ride
Hue
- Perfume river trips to Buddhist historic monastery and evening with traditional musicians
Ho Chi Minh City city tour
Craft Center
War Musem
The tour includes double rooms ($300 extra, single supplement), breakfasts daily, facilitator, translator, transport throughout and to and from airport.
We encourage using at least one checked bag for donations to local organizations who will
get them to those most in need.
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our developing world(odw)
Ecuador Tour August 18-Sept 1
Approximately $1,621 from Quito (does not include air)
The August 2008 trip to Ecuador will include visits to Quechua villages with a possible one night overnight, a trip to the rain forest staying at the scientific station and visiting people who have been affected by the oil pollution by Texaco/Chevron, a visit to the Afro Venezuelans on the coast and a variety of activities in Quito( community clinic, bilingual/bicultural Quechua/Spanish elementary school, etc. )
All our tours are tours of hope which we get from the people we visit to see what they're doing to make life better for themselves, their families and communities. We come home energized! Hope you will join us.
Non-Hilton adventures for ten flexible travelers to experience for themselves the Hope of the People Focus on people: economic, social, cultural and health.
Come home energized!
Tour cost is tax deductible. A graduation present? Donations to odw
scholarship fund in someone's name are also. We organize tours for students and teachers and other groups.
our developing world(odw), a tax-exempt educational nonprofit provider approved by the alifornia Board of Registered Nursing
Provider # CEP14397, for 20 Contact Hours, 30 for Southeast Asia
RN fee $100
University credit possible
Itinerary
- Monday, August 18 - arrive Quito at 11:00pm
- Tuesday, August 19 - 11:00am Yachay Wasi "School of Knowledge", "This school is friendly to all bio-diversity." Lunch. Rest. Take train (Ecovia) to Old Town: City Museum, walking tour of old colonial homes with Lourdes. 5:15pm pick up for sunset at Panacillo
- Wed-Fri, August 20, 21, 22 - Fly to Los Agrios . Drive past the Tungurahua volcano, Baños and then to Puyoto meet with the Zaparas. On to the Napo river (two hours) where people from Las Cabañas del Swizo" will get us in canoes. The stay includes canoe trips, hikes in the jungle, a visit to an animal sanctuary.
- Saturday, August 23 - For the toxictour Hermegilio, a Cofan Leader, will also take you to his community to talk about the impact of the oil development to his Cofan culture. Possible overnight in Coca town.
- Sunday, August 24 - The middle of the world Museum El Mitad del Mundo between 1-6 pm
- Mon-Tues, August 25, 26 - to Esmeraldas (Afro Ecuadoran community) Leave at 7 Breakfast and Vivero Mindo bird Sanctuary. 2 nights possibly meeting with Papa Roncun, Spiritual father, master marimba player and builder of marimbas Enjoy the beach, fresh fish.
- Wednesday, August 27 - return from Coast
- Thursday, August 28 - Health center, Hospital Public school
- Friday, August 29 - Rincon del Viajero, Otavalo. Meet at Peguche falls, Laurita's brother's program in Agato: orientation on cosmology, calendar, etc, lunch and ceremony and music at Peguche Falls. El Gran Condor and market.
- Sat, August 30 - Cotacachi: leather work, lunch at Lago Quicocha ( volcanic lake) . San Antonio de Ibarra (woodcarving)
- Sunday, August 31 - return to Quito 9:30am via San Pablo del Lago ( Cabanas del Lago for boat ride) Cayambe base of volcano...lunch half a block before the main park, walk around town (biscuits with mozzarella ) biscochos de Cayambe @ Biscochos del Cura. 3:00pm leave for Quito arrive at 4:30 through Guapalo to see the oldest church. Final dinner at Cafe del Teatro in old town.
- Monday, September 1 - departure to US
(Photo: centuries-old backstrap loom technique)
(Photo: Yachay Wasi School)
(Photo: cleaning up oil pollution)
(Photo: carding wool for loom)
Highlights of the our developing world(odw) South Africa EcoReality Tour
July - August, 2009
$2,059 w/o airfare
A Nation of Contrasts, Struggle and Hope
Non-Hilton adventures for ten flexible travelers who want to see for themselves
Tour of Hope The Hope of the People
Focusing on people: social, health and economic development
Come home energized!
Tour cost is tax deductible. Donations to odw scholarship fund in someone's name are also. We also organize tours for students and teachers.
our developing world, a tax-exempt educational nonprofit Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14397, for 20 Contact Hours, 30 for Southeast Asia RN fee $100 University credit possible for others.
Johannesburg area
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Tour the Constitutional Court Building and possiblyspeak with one of the justices!
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Visit self help projects in Alexandra (one of the poorest Black townships) A clinic, pre-school, home for the elderly, and the Sandton Mall nearby (one of the most upscale malls) and lunch there in Mandela Plaza
- Visit Kliptown, where the Freedom Charter was signed in 1912, the oldest neighborhood in Soweto and see what the people are doing to improve their lives and community
- Visit schools. Contrast a Soweto school and a suburban one
- View the Apartheid Museum
- Enjoy a day in a national Game park
Capetown area
- Township tour, an experience in walking in someone else's shoes
- Talk with people involved in the healing process from the apartheid years
- Enjoy beautiful Cape Point where the Indian ocean and the Atlantic
- Visit recycling and community garden projects
- Robben Island where Mandela and many others were incarcerated
And much more. We tailor our itinerary to your interests! Join us!!
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