New Primary School Project in Ka Touat, Laos
The featured Laos community development project is based in the rural village of Baan Ka Touat located in southwestern Laos. However, Ka Touat is actually 2 villages merged into one. Continue Reading →
Sustainable Travel
Global Travel Press is a sustainable travel blog. By having the means to fund my own international travel it is 100% beneficial to the local communities and environments. Furthermore, responsible travelers are able to make direct contributions through community development projects. Unfortunately, sustainable travel has been misperceived by some as an excuse to travel the world with dubious funding sources such as student loans, mortgages and credit cards. The economies of undeveloped counties are under severe pressure because of the profligate fiscal policies of western democracies. In conclusion, willfully negligent consumers from the developed economies have a parasitic effect on these fragile communities. This is certainly not a form of sustainable travel. Indeed, they are the problem and not the solution. Please find facts and photos below from the community development projects in SE Asia that I sponsored.
Rural Community Development in Nong Tae, Laos
Nong Tae is a rural village located between Pakse and Champasak in Southern Laos. The village population is 2,653 and the residents support themselves with subsistence farming and casual work Continue Reading →
Prey Chas, Cambodia Community Development Project
Prey Chas, Cambodia desperately need a new secondary school. Fortunately for the village, the Cambodia community development prospectus for the new school building was provided by the NGO I was Continue Reading →
Effective Community Development in Tuol Kruos, Cambodia
Our new community development in Cambodia was a primary school with 116 student beneficiaries between ages 6-14. Tuol Kruos village is part of Oddar Meanchey Province in Northwest Cambodia, close Continue Reading →
Tonle Sap is the “Heartbeat of Cambodia”
Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in SE Asia. Literally, Tonle translates to English as “fresh” and Sap translates as “lake”. However, the most important significance of the lake Continue Reading →