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travel the world for charity? anyone intrested or have ideas? very serious!!?

Trip Idea - Plan :2011- Ecotourism - Environment - Charity - Sponsorships Duration 1 to 2 to 3 years. Group.Size To be determined. Plan - Travel around the world. 1. Go to every region of the world. In the name of the environment and charity organizations. To raise awareness for environmental responsibility and charity organizations. To be able spread the message to other nations of the world of the cause and promote environment responsibility. 2. Raise money for the charity or charities we represent 3. Be sponsored by many companies for the duration of the trip or single portions of trip etc. 4. Do charity work in different regions of the world. Represent a charity the do charity in regions eg. Costa Rica - Save the Turtles, Habitat for Humanity 5. Travel and then stop for a while in one region and work, charity work etc and check out all sights, explore cultures, peoples etc. 6. Travel for charity, sightsee, do trekking adventures, out door adventures. Eg.trek to mt everest, camel journey across Sahara desert, train across Siberia, etc. 7. If possible, get in touch with a film crew. To film and document the whole project. Eg. Get film students, crew, get in contact with various tv stations of travel/adventure shows if possible. Transportation - Uses of public transportation - buses, boats, kayaks, canoes, walking, trekking, hiking , biking rollerblading etc. Use Trains and buses and any public transport. Try not to use taxis or personal motor vehicles of planes due to large amount of carbons produced by these modes of transportation. Route - To be determined - the following is predetermined, may change - open to suggestions as research is made Start in the UK - then venture around in European Countries. Venture in to Greece, Greek Isles. Africa. Russia, Asian Countries. China, Vietnam, Japan, etc. India then over to Pacific Region, Australia, New Zealand etc. Do South American Countries, try to do all countries there within in region. Then up to Central America - Costa Rica, Mexico etc. Then to North America - USA, Canada etc. Representation - Travel in the name of a charity group. Eg, Parkinsons Disease or a few others as our main purpose. Have funds by all our sponsors. Have a positive experience on the world. Create a Message to follow by. Our motto. Individuals. Ideas- Anyone out there, know any languages - read and write would be valuable. In other languages. This idea is for anyone who is willing to sacrifice and drop everything for a long duration.. You don't have to do the entire length of trip. One can do one portion or small portions. Looking to set up name of the team/group this will be called. Open to suggestions/ideas from anyone out there/ Feel free to msg myself, for questions or ideas u may have Feel free to research areas of the world or offer advice on things that can make this adventure interesting PLEASE I URGE ANYONE WHO IS AT ALL INTERESTED IN THIS IDEA TO MAIL ME AT drysdale_jordan@hotmail.co.uk

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1. First, you must be a certified non profit. Check out this website for more on volunteering: http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volunteer/international.html Hope this helps.
2. You won't get sponsorship, sorry. No companies will sponsor you unless you come up with some unique angle for your trip. Nothing you've said above is unique. It's nice, but not unique. transire benefaciendo "to travel along while doing good." http://www.coyotecommunications.com/travel/go_and_do_good.html Funding Your Volunteering Abroad Trip http://www.coyotecommunications.com/stuff/fundingabroad.html
3. I highly suggest Costa Rica. There are many existing environmental organizations that can help you, and would love to use your help. Start by looking for Canadian ones, I seem to always run into those. United States has its fair share down here too. Costa Rica is huge on conversation, and is very easy to travel around. It's government aspires for it to be the first carbon neutral country (don't want to argue about carbon neutrality here, but it certainly shows their commitment to being "green"). Some 20% of their land is protected, and there is a huge variety of endangered and endemic species to be studied. If you can find an organization to work for you can most likely get a VISA for an extended period of time. Otherwise you have 90 days (30 if you piss off an immigrations worker or they are in a bad mood), and have to cross the border to Nicaragua or Panama for 72 hours before returning (any country works, but those are easy to bus to). You can theoretically do this forever, until they decide you're taking advantage. I don't know if I would travel to many countries though --- your work is always longer lasting when you stay and take time to do it right. The most important part of conversation is education, and its hard to properly educate people (and yourself, for that matter), when you're only in town for a few weeks before moving on.
4. If you are at all interested in southeast Asia and causes in addition to environmental, check out the Cambodian orphanage Santepheap that provides children with regular food, schooling and activities. They rely solely on volunteers who travel through. My guess would be that they would be receptive to someone coming to teach awareness of the environment as well.