Flower Travel welcome calls from people looking to travel overseas on community projects. We will make our best efforts to ensure that such travellers receive the best value in their arrangements, as of course we do for all our clients. Flower Travel is a business and we make no claim for 'not for profit status' but we are a business with a conscience and so we will look at discounted deals for such trips and can often assist in useful 'value add' services such as increased luggage allowances and waiver on airline fees.
In recent years we have assisted numerous fund raising and voluntary work trips such as:
- Sending a beading teacher to Ethiopia to teach local women how to create beaded jewelry to sell to tourists. We were able to secure extra luggage allowance with two airlines for beading materials.
- Helping members of a local church group visit a Christian orphanage in Mozambique. Again we were able to negotiate extra luggage allowance secured for school books.
- Assisted a community organization to visit a Melbourne funded project in Cambodia. A group booking discount was secured from the airline.
- Providing discounted airfares to members of an Australian child protection charity for Thailand.
- Organising travel for a Melbourne Rotary group to Vanuatu to operate free dental check ups in isolated villages.
If you or your organization are planning an overseas trip and would like free and impartial advice then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Charity Support
Flower Travel is committed to supporting organisations that aim to make a difference in the developing world and we financially support them throughout the year. These include:
World Vision is a charitable organisation providing help on a need basis. Their aim is to improve the lives of children, families and communities living in poverty by working on long-term projects that address the causes of poverty and help people become self-sufficient. They also provide relief in emergency situations. But to most Australians, World Vision is associated with the sponsor a child initiative - putting a human face to the challenges of the developing world.
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Kiva (www.kiva.org), a non-profit initiative that perfectly encapsulate the concept of "teaching a man to fish". Kiva provides you with the opportunity to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur across the globe.
You choose who to lend to - whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq - and as they repay their loan, you get your money back. It's a powerful and sustainable way to empower someone right now to lift themselves out of poverty.
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