our developing world(odw) upcoming 2008 tours:
- Cambodia/Laos March 12-April 1
Approximately $2,849 including Vietnam, not including air
- South Africa July/August
15 days in their winter Be come energized by grassroots people making a difference (more details to come)
- Ecuador September 8-23
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.
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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Highlights of the our developing world(odw) South Africa EcoReality Tour
July 24-August 8, 2008
$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 July 24-July 31, 2008
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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!!
our developing world(odw)
16-day Ecuador Tour September 8-23, 2008
Approximately $1,621 from Quito (does not include air)
The September 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
(Photo: centuries-old backstrap loom technique)
- Monday, Sept 8 - arrive Quito midnight
- Tuesday, Sept 9 - Multicultural school, Old City Museum, sunset over Quito
- Wed-Fri, Sept 10, 11, 12 - Rainforest, stay at scientific station, tours by scientists, visits with families who live in the forest
- Saturday, Sept 13 - Return to Quito
- Sunday, Sept 14 - The Middle of the World
- Mon-Tues, Sept 15, 16 - Esmeraldas, AfroEcuadoran communities; breakfast and bird sanctuary (Vivero Mindo), enroute
- Wednesday, Sept 17 - Return to Quito
- Thursday, Sept 18 - Community based clinic, hospital
- Fri-Sun, Sept 19-21 - Otavalo with orientation to cosmology at sacred waterfall, visits to indigenous Quichwa villages
- Monday, Sept 22 - Return to Quito via volcanic lakes, boating on one. Dinner: Cafe Del Teatro in Old Town
- Tuesday, Sept 23 - Return to US
More detailed itinerary:
- Monday, Sept 8 - Arrive Quito midnight. 2 nights upon arrival
- Tuesday, Sept 9-11 - Yachay Wasi (School of Knowledge): “This bi-lingual, bi-cultural school is friendly to all bio-diversity” Rest. Lunch.
Take Ecovia bus to Old Town: Plaza de Independencia walk to City Museum. Possible walking tour of old colonial homes 5:15pm pick up for sunset at Panacillo.
(Photo: Yachay Wasi School)
- Wed-Fri, Sept 10, 11, 12 Drive to Yasuni National Park. Rainforest tour. 3 nights. Land tour of oil degredation. Bus to Napo River and boatride on Napo. Tours of rainforest with scientist.
(Photo: cleaning up oil pollution)
- Saturday, Sept 13 - Return to Quito
- Sunday, Sept 14 - The middle of the world Museum El Mitad del Mundo $4. between 1-6pm
- Mon-Tues, Sept 15, 16 Drive to Esmeraldas (Afro Ecuadoran community). Breakfast on the way, “Vivero Mindo” bird Sanctuary, 2 nights including possible meeting with Papa Roncun, Spiritual father of the community and the master marimba player and builder marimbas, visit a school, Swim, walk on beach, fresh fish
- Wednesday, Sept 17 - Return from coast
- Thursday, Sept 18 - Community based health center. Hospital
- Fri-Sun, Sept 19-21 - Meet at Peguche Falls: orientation on cosmology, indigenous calendar, etc lunch and ceremony and music at Peguche Falls
(Photo: carding wool for loom)
- Saturday, Sept 20 Cotacachi: leather work. Lunch at Lago Quicocha (volcanic lake) Aya Huma Restaurant in Peguche. Dinner with cultural event
- Sunday, Sept 21 - San Antonio de Ibarra (woodcarving)
- Monday, Sept 22 - Return to Quito 9:30am via San Pablo del Lago (Cabañas del Lago) for boat ride Cayambe base of volcano...lunch. Walk around town: biscochos de Cayambe. 3pm leave for Quito arrive at 4:30pm through Guapalo to see the church. Farewell dinner at Cafe del Teatro in Old Town
- Tuesday, Sept 23 - Return to US
Yellow Fever shot required to ten days prior to get into park good for 10 years.
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