VOLUNTOURISM You like to spent longer holidays
on worldwide super locations?
YOU CAN DO THIS TOO!
Are you also a passionate
quality photographer or videographer?
Or you have other qualities to share ?
This is traveling that
unites your purpose and passion and
ignites your enthusiasm in ways unimaginable.
You work hard at your job. Maybe you are
raising kids, too.
When it comes time for a break, what would you rather do…....
relax on a beach or volunteer to help needy communities or
causes?
While enjoying beautiful Swaziland, helping, amusing, educating,
or cooking-lessons for so many orphans children in need?
With Voluntourism,
you can do both.
Why not give back
while getting away?
Seeing is Believing.
Have you ever wondered
what actually happens to your donations?
Is it swallowed up by administration costs?
What % of your money actually reaches
the project or person you
want to help?
As Video Producer Jan van der Meer produces yearly several
Charity video productions for several projects.
Just to bring you on some ideas,
here some examples of the projects Jan did in
South Africa, Swaziland, Kwazulu-Natal, Kenya, Borneo and Bali.
Swaziland: Producing videoclip &
happiness for
Hotel Staff Mbabane Hotel. on YouTube
South-Africa: KwaZuluNatal offering Zulu
(Township) streetdancers St. Lucia
worldwide attention with
this YouTube clip.
(120.000+ viewers)
Through Voluntourism,
Africa Travel is far
more than a Safari
A
recent study indicates that Africa is the most popular destination among people
who believe in giving back on vacation and incorporating charity work in their
tourism.
Africa is a focal point of poverty.
Voluntourism is especially popular among college and high school students.
Asked to their areas of voluntourism interest for performing charity work on
vacation,
23 percent listed education or artistic and cultural development.
This was followed by 19 percent to provide spiritual or emotional assistance,
18 percent to improve health and nutrition,
14 percent to construct roads and homes and technology, and
12 percent for cleanup or agricultural assistance.
A Voluntourist can do anything from building a water pipeline to teaching
basic subjects to coaching sports.
A volunteer may teach, provide child care, assist with health care, or
build homes.
And showing on this page what people as photographer or videographer can do to
help them producing
Promoclips on YouTube and make projects and people famous and attract more
tourism and income!
South-Africa: For the Khula Happy
Singers (very poor street artists in St.Lucia)
Jan produced this on Vimeo awarded one shot recording with a small cam
and also produced a CD
with their songs for sale now during their performances.
This may be the first time that
you have ever considered combining travelling
and sharing your passion in action to people who need it.
VolunTourism represents the blending of your favorite passions and
your voluntary efforts in serving the people wherever they are.
Body, mind and soul respond to the awakening of thoughts, feelings, emotions,
via a labor of gratitude that is offered as a part of your overall itinerary.
VolunTourism provides you with perspective and balance in your life.
You are able to utilize your values and potentials while interacting
with the other world for the common destiny.
"Above all
expectations.
It was really one of the best and
most memorable experiences in my life"
KENIA Nairobi
Technical school Apostels of Jesus
See
this
project we did for Father Joseph
and his main sponsor Miss Agnes Walraven
Restaurant De Ouwe Meerpaal Vijfhuisen
Haarlemmerliede
VIDEOproject for Swazi Secrets Pretty Swazi Woman show their 'Swazi
Secrets'.
We visited the Swazi Secret Factory owned by rural Swaziland women
where they make Natural skin care products from the Marula Tree Nuts and
decided to make a promo videoclip including a song
(also used for our Amarula clips in Namibia )
The old clip in HQ quality
watched over 5000 times (YouTube & Vimeo)
an now a new one in HD with their new logo.
Mail response from volunteer John Pearce
Executive Director: "Very, very many thanks - it's great.
Everyone in the office is thrilled -
we'll get it out to KaShoba for the women to see as soon as we can.
Many thanks also for the promo work on our behalf. The word is spreading......
I had to go to see the Queen Mother (in the Palace of King Mswati III)
so took along the video to show her r
- she was delighted with it so you can add royalty to your list of plaudits!
Things are going very well here now, especially with export sales. "
See the 'the making of' this Swazi Secrets promoclip
by DP Jan van der Meer:
This is traveling that unites your
purpose in life
and
ignites your enthusiasm in ways unimaginable.
"Hi Jan, thank you once again
for the great video....we used it all the time to promote our program.
Everybody love the video and always amazed by your work. Good luck
and we're looking forward to meet you
and your wife in the future. Best Regards, Dewi and the Perama
family"
For some information on how volunteer organizations
can address concerns related to the impacts of voluntourism,
please visit
www.planeterra.org, a non-profit dedicated to sustainable community
development
that offers voluntours around the world through long-established projects.
Rustic
Volunteer Trail ~
good for adults 35-49 looking for projects in Asia, Africa,
Central or South America in health/medicine, animals, languages,
tour/extreme,
childcare/education, low-cost trips that include food/lodging and local
caretakers
Ecoteer
~
a great recession alternative to finding the perfect volunteer project,
with some projects even offering free room/board,
this site actually CONNECTS you directly with the project in advance
Volunteer Latin America
~
Their mission is to help protect Latin America’s flora and fauna,
its biodiversity, and to offer the most cost effective way to become an
environmental
or humanitarian volunteer in Central or South America,
and actually have an Ethical Policy posted on their site
It is time now to utilize your potentials and
put this extra dimension in your life!
contact: studio ((")) global-dvc . org
Van der Meer Video Studio Global Digital Videographers Centre Passage 14-16, Zandvoort The Netherlands
+31-(0)6-54201967
