Madventurer
Madventurer offers the chance to combine volunteer projects in rural communities with adventurous overland travel. Projects include building and teaching but medical, conservation and coaching schemes are also frequently run. Groups leave year-round to destinations in Africa, South America, South-East Asia, the Indian Sub-Continent and the Pacific Islands.
Mad gap jobs are individual work placements in urban parts of the countries, where venturers can take their skills and gain work experience. In addition, Mad sports coaching projects offer individuals the opportunity to coach, train and play sport overseas, contributing to its development. Flexible start dates from 2 weeks to 6 months.
Member since: 14 Mar 2006
How the minimum criteria of the responsible travel standard was met...
Economic responsibility
- Madventurer encourages its venturers to purchase locally produced goods and as a company utilizes as many resources as possible from local suppliers, including food, building materials, accommodation, skilled labour, guides, and transport. This is to ensure that as much revenue as possible stays within the countries it operates in and therefore benefits the local communities.
Environmental responsibility
- Madventurer is aware that water is a limited resource in many of the countries it operates in and therefore encourages venturers to use the minimal amount of water whilst on projects. Madventurer also advises its venturers on how to minimize their environmental impact on their surroundings whilst overseas.
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Madventurer recognises the environmental cost of its carbon emissions from flights for both staff and venturers. Therefore, Madventurer offsets the carbon emissions from all company flights through regular donations to Climate Care to support sustainable energy initiatives and reforestation programmes.
Social responsibility
- Madventurer ensures its venturers receive accurate pre-trip information concerning the destination countries in the form of pre-departure packs. These packs include information on cultural sensitivity, venturer responsibilities, obligations and codes of conduct for the countries we operate in.
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Madventurer aims to minimize the negative impact it has on local cultures by keeping venturer group sizes small, sensitizing venturers to cultural differences, and enforcing a code of conduct whilst living within rural communities.
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Madventurer aids its venturers’ cultural infusion through involvement in activities organized by the local community such as drumming workshops, language lessons, guided tours, local crafts workshops.
