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Our Cultural Immersion Adventure has been designed from its conception to benefit local communities – preserving their culture, supporting local projects, and protecting the environment. Here's how:
Local communities in Debark will have direct contact with our clients. Our clients will spend a day volunteering in Debark, working with orphans and/or other at-risk groups in measurable ways. At the end of the day you'll be able to see real change. Every member of our team has volunteered in Ethiopia - our founder and head guide have worked on several projects over a two year period. We've used our previous experience to design great volunteering opportunities that make real, sustainable changes.
We're certain that the best way to experience real culture and preserve it is through home-stays. You will spend a day with an Ethiopian family in a market town at the foot of the Simien Mountains. These unfiltered experiences will show our clients the unmatched hospitality and giving kindness that made our founder fall in love with Ethiopia. Not only is this an amazing opportunity for our clients, but it creates lifelong linkages to local families which is more valuable than any "handout". This real connection is unstructured and everyone will have a unique experience – one that will stay with you and bring you back to this country for years to come.
You'll visit several projects that our team has worked on including an internet café operated by orphans, a local handicraft shop started by women who are HIV positive, and a local restaurant started by single women. After helpingstart these projects, our founder realized the best way to ensure their sustainability was by creating a permanent link through tourism. 5% of every tour we book goes directly to new projects like these, but we don't just give out money. We work together with locals through every step of starting a new business – from the business plan to grand opening to yearly financial reviews.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
