Community & Conservation

Projects where local people and visitors protect a place together. 13 guides from the Mynatour archive.

Cambodia, Asia

PEPY: Volunteer Tourism in Cambodia

PEPY, "Protect the Earth, Protect Yourself" is a non-governmental organization registered in both the US and Cambodia. PEPY's mission is to aid rural…

Teuco Tropical Forest Project

The Teuco Tropical Forest Project is co-financed by the European Union and the non-governmental organization, VOLENS. The project has created a cooperative…

Argentina, South America

The Rio Parana Cooperative

The Agriculture Movement of Misiones, MAM Yerba Mate Titrayju: Land, Work and Justice - North East of Argentine. The Rio Parana cooperative involves a group…

The Foundation Amautas de los Zazos

The community of Amaicha del Valle is found in the northeast part of the Province of Tucuman, between the Quilmes Mountains and the Calchaquies Valleys…

COMMUNITY: Buy 1 Trip Give 1 Trip with Elevate Destinations

If you are looking for a way to contribute the local community while enjoying a unique holiday, then look no further. Elevate Destinations is a US-based tour…

Innovative thinking: the Silk Leaf Project, or how an artificial leaf could provide us with clean air

At a time when rainforests are facing massive deforestation, responsible for up to 20% of global green gas emissions, Julian Melchiorri, a student from The…

Paraguay, South America

The Guaraní community

In the North Est of Argentine the inhabitants of Mborore have established a program of tourism in their community. The Mborore community have been confined…

Nicaragua, North America

Fair Trade Coffee Trail in Nicaragua

"The Faces Behind the Coffee Cup" Rural community - based tourism (turismo rural y comunitario) is small scale tourism in economically less developed rural…

Support Kim in the Fight against Child Sex Tourism

The bad news is that children in poor countries are still sexually exploited by travellers, The good news is that you can do something about it: Child sex…

Contradictories of 'VolunTourism'

During the last decades there has been a growing tendency of looking for alternative ways of tourism development in order to slow or arrest the deterioration…

Rwanda, Africa

Opening the Akilah Institute for Women in Rwanda

The Akilah Institute for Women is located in the Bugesera district of Rwanda , 35 minutes from the capital of Kigali. During the 1994 genocide , this region…

Peru, South America

Volunteering on a Budget

If you are like so many conscious travellers, you naturally want to contribute in some way to the betterment of the places you visit during your travels…

Greece, Europe

PROJECT GREECE 2010

You want to know more about Greece but feel too lazy to buy a map? You really would like to know where chance might take you? Maybe you just need to meet the…