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Inside/Out: Humanitourism Adventures

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

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The other day I received a comment on the blog from Zoe Katsulos, the wonderful leader of Inside/Out, a program similar to SalaamGarage.  Like SalaamGarage, Inside/Out hosts organized trips throughout the year to various regions of the world.  During these voyages, the participating travelers work together on a collaborative service project that is particularly relevant to the region at hand.

Meet Zoe: zoe-katsulos

Here what Zoe says about Inside/Out’s mission:

inside/out provides life changing travel experiences for people who want to make a difference in the world. Our trips are designed around opportunities to do humanitarian volunteer work on meaningful international projects and are combined with sustainable eco-adventure travel in the local area of the project and people. These Humanitourism™ trips are designed to create longer-term relationships between communities and travelers.

I love how they sum up their mission, and I LOVE their term, Humanitourism.  It couldn’t be more spot-on! 

As we speak, Inside/Out is leading an animal welfare mission in Greece, where they are working with the local homeless dog population.  Some of their projects during this endeavor include installing permanent feeding stations for the animals, and also preparing some dogs to be adopted into homes.  They are very excited about this project (rightfully so! and so I’m sure are the dogs they are helping! :-) )greek-dogs

If this animal welfare mission is something that is right up your alley, don’t fret: they’ve had such great responses to this trip that they are planning another one for next year!!  So you can follow along with this year’s trip, learn all you can, get pumped up, and take part next year!  Pretty great, huh?  You can follow along with them on Twitter, Facebook, and by emailing Zoe to sign up for the Inside/Out newsletter (mail.insideout@gmail.com).

I get so excited learning about these various organizations that are out there, welcoming service as a part of travel, and am so happy that through Enchanting Challenge, we can help get the word out and connect volunteers to the service trip of their dreams…Tomorrow, there will be a post about Inside/Out’s summer trip to Africa, for which they are still openings!  Keep your eyes peeled! :-)