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Nile cruises travel between the cities of Luxor and Aswan, which are two of the major cities of Southern Egypt that still need a lot of development work for the local communities In addition to our policy of using local chains which employ local staff we also want to extend deeper support for the local community. Luxor city has been witnessing a lot of development in the last two years which has involved moving some of the locals out of the houses to new areas. One of the small orphanages of Luxor is called the Holy Book orphanage and has 26 boys had to move to another building as their old house had to be pulled down since part of the avenue of sphinxes that used to connect between the temples of Luxor & Karnak. The new building still needs a lot of work to put it in a good shape make it suitable of the children there . Their needs range between sheets , toys , to desks , beds and chairs. Part of the price of this trip will go as a donation to support the needs of the orphanage. As for the Nile cruises that we use in this program, they are all managed by local operators. Most of these operators employ at least two-thirds of their staff from Southern Egypt. These jobs have helped many of the Southern Egyptians to open more to the world around them and to start addressing a lot of the social, health and educational issues they are facing without waiting for the government to take the initiative.
One of the main issues that has been successfully tackled was the employment of girls on Nile cruise; some of the Nile cruises have employed female staff. Another issue is preserving the environment. The staff, through private and public organisations, have received various workshops that taught them how to use the water of the Nile, and try as much as possible not to pollute it by their daily life practices.
Since we believe that our travellers should also have a positive impact on the communities they visit, recommendations will be given out to each traveller on how to act around the different sites visited, and how to behave around the small local communities they will visit.
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!
