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The Phang Nga province of Thailand suffered immensely due to the Tsunami which struck late in 2004. Many of the people who died were from the coastal communities where English language was popular due to tourism. The loss of these people meant a huge loss of skills, knowledge and experience, including much knowledge of the English Language. This has created a great demand from local communities for English language lessons, so the communities can regain those skills and receive maximum benefit from tourism.
We work in partnership with local communities and local organisations to help communities conserve their culture and their natural resources, which are increasingly under pressure, assisting them with achieving sustainable incomes whilst protecting their natural resources. In Phang Nga you can help us support the effort of its local partners to increase the long term benefits of tourism to the local population by:
- Supplying free communicative English language lessons to the local communities.
- Training local teachers in English language teaching.
- Supplying free English language lessons to local partner staff, guides, rangers and researchers.
- Supporting Thai culture and the efforts of organisations and communities to preserve it.
- Supporting community environmental awareness.
- Supporting tourist environmental and cultural awareness.
- Increasing the capacity of the local community to benefit in the long term from the tourism coming into their area in a sustainable manner.
The owner of this company did a gap year trip in the early 90s which involved building a bandstand for a small village in Patagonia. While he was there, he realised the project was only helpful in developing the Western traveller as the village didn’t want a bandstand and only argued about who owned it. And so he set up a volunteer organisation which is useful to communities and provides them with resources and help with funding. Today, his projects offer travellers an opportunity to fully integrate into communities and to make a real long-term difference to the local people’s lifestyles.
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