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Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel: Taking you Farther. Bringing you Closer.™ One hundred and fifty years ago visionary poet Walt Whitman warned that the industrial revolution (not to mention our digital revolution) was artificially accelerating the tempo of people’s lives to the point where humans where losing touch with their inner rhythms and the natural pulse of their thoughts and emotions.Whitman urged people to appreciate and occasionally cultivate idle time as a way to refresh the soul, in order to become more receptive to the human part of us. More recently, Jeremy Rifkin the author of Time Wars warned of the dangers to the human psyche of too much speed.
Today, over 75% of families share dinner once a week or less and parents face more outside the home responsibilities, and less intimacy and meaningful experiences with those they love. Whitman’s prescient observation has been clearly validated. Our experience (Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic & Engaged Legacies) has proven that the most powerful under-utilized tool for creating multi-generational family intimacy, unity, growth and transformation is the private family philanthropic travel experience.
We give our hearts to those who share our experiences and we cherish those people both in and out of our immediate families, whose stories we have truly heard because we then understand their world. Intimate Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic private travel experiences help us find meaning in our lives while we expand our perspectives, practice generosity and experience teachable moments that imprint our memories and model our values. Creating virtuous children through early and often age appropriate philanthropic travel has proven itself countless times as a unifying transformational family experience. Can Money Buy You Happiness?
Philanthropy Begins at Home
It’s not just the responsibility of preventing money from harming your child -but the responsibility of using that money to parent in positive ways. Creating teachable transformative moments that include impactful lessons in honesty, humility, sacrifice, industry, responsibility and temperance have largely failed in the Baby Boomer world of unprecedented affluence and excessive consumerism. Families who are succeeding in raising well adjusted children do so because they always remember that every moment counts. When I was just seven years old, my grandparents leveraged a rare opportunity to introduce me to the daily march for survival in rural Haiti. My grandparents intent was to expose me to the world that I would inherit, both good and not so good. Their vision included helping me develop a strong sense of self through challenging experiences and to impress upon me at a very early age that our family wealth was a blessing and a tool for the greater good, not the definition of who we are. As you might imagine, my memories of our four-hour ride into a jungle village with unclothed, impoverished villagers left a lasting respect for my grandparents who answered my questions and helped me to comprehend what I had witnessed and how we might help. My grandfather’s kind words and respect for those who we met and his generosity that day has profoundly shaped my worldview.
Thoughtful family wide participation in philanthropy leads to growth in self- esteem, stability, imagination, and a rewarding family life. Research indicates that the adult philanthropist becomes the values model for their children and grand kids. Personal Transformation, Wealth & Wisdom Savvy high net worth parents realize that full family involvement in philanthropic travel requires more than just a call to their black card concierge hotline. Transformation requires outside help in the form of a philanthropic advisor experienced in choreographing every detail of the transformational experience to drive the deeper meaning and impact on all members of the family. The full potential of Philanthropic Travel is realized through a professional process that requires a consultative and collaborative team of experts in philanthropy, investments, estate planning, family dynamics and family mission development. You should expect to be engaged in questions that focus on every member of your family, their personal preferences, current philanthropic experience and future vision. The hardest part of the planning process (for me) is asking the essential questions about what is most important to the people involved and determining how the answers can be used to enhance each family member’s growth and trust. Over the past 6 years it has been my unique privilege to listen to family members share their aspirations and dreams of how they can make a difference in the world and leave a trace of the best of ourselves once we are gone. I have found inspiration in creating family transformation and sharing the personal victories catalyzing over $1 million dollars in high impact philanthropy donations. Like Benjamin Franklin stated in Poor Richard’s almanac: If you would be forgotten, A few stories worth the writing.. Quintessential Philanthropic Travel In the same room, van Beuren’s 23-year-old son tried to sleep. But as the seconds passed and the eye of the squall moved closer, a blast of wind burst through the net door, blowing the room’s curtains against the ceiling and the atmosphere into chaos. “What was that?” Ted Jr. yelled as he jolted upright. “What’s happening?” A moment later, the skies opened, unleashing a torrent of rain so hard it drowned out the thunder and dimmed the lightning. But as he sat there, the man who had left his safe Pennsylvania neighborhood to visit the unknown halfway around the world could not think about the powerful meteorological event unfolding before him. Nor could he think about fly-fishing, his passion, and one of the adventures he had hoped to share with his son while in Africa. “All I could think about was what I was going to do with the quality time I had left in my life,” he says. “All I could think about was that morning.” That morning, van Beuren found himself first in Nairobi, in a densely populated slum where orphans of AIDS victims lived alone in extreme poverty. And then later in a village on Rusinga, where a young man without even a high-school education had somehow managed to pull together the necessary means to start not only a medical center, but an international export business to support it. Images from those encounters did not sweep over van Beuren immediately. But as the day’s cadence slowed, and the clock turned past midnight, and that storm drew near with a strength he’d never seen, they came into focus. As the CEO of one of the biggest multi-sports facilities on America’s East Coast vividly tried to recall every last detail of his day, a message reverberated through his body. “It was like God was speaking,” van Beuren says. “That storm was his cleansing me, and I knew what I had to do. Everything was all of the sudden extremely clear.” Philanthropic Travel tests our comfort zones, generates positive emotions, ignites old dreams, empowers entrepreneurial initiatives and recalibrates financial and estate plans for families with a new-found sense of mission. Our decision to create a living legacy allows us the opportunity to engage our children as financially responsible directors of family philanthropy potentially generating a legacy of global philanthropic engagement that shines like a lighthouse into the future. Understanding Philanthropic Journeys Make an appointment with an expert. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) states that if responsible practices are in place, Philanthropic Travel is the natural interlocutor between the wealth and desires of the global traveler and the socio-economic needs of some of the world’s most remote, but heritage-rich communities, natural and cultural sites. “ Philanthropic Travelers: |
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In our highly connected world, travel can happen from any number of means, catering to just about any human desire out there. So why should you bother with Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel?
For many reasons, the top of which being that when you travel with them, $250 goes directly to organizations and communities where you visited. No opaque claims of a percentage of proceeds or other such vagueness. You get emailed a copy of the Wells Fargo bank transfer, showing exactly who it went to.
Real, meaningful interactions, rather then pre packaged tourist shows.
Not something your run of the mill backpacker “eco adventure” travel agency would do. But then, Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel’s main focus as a business is to raise funds for high impact non profits around the world, through the vehicle of memorable, powerful travel experiences, spending learning time with local people in the regions you visit. It’s geared towards those of a higher income bracket that want to make a difference, and have the means to do so.
And taking a look around their blog, it’s clear they have some big causes in mind. For instance, coal has been big on the radar this past year, particularly all the talk of “clean coal.” You may have heard about the egregious practice of mountaintop removal in order to get this cheap and dirty substance. You may have wondered what you could do.
Together with the Make it REAL Foundation, they sponsored a trip in May 2009 to raise scholarship money for students of the Appalachian Media Institute and local environmental anti-coal orgs who are doing something about it, and they flew low level right over many of the mined mountains.
Often what happens after these trips is the people are so moved by what they’ve seen and experienced, they find additional ways to continue making a difference in the regions they’ve visited, some even starting their own foundations and NGOs to achieve this aim.
David Chamberlain puts it well when he says,
“By educating philanthropic travelers on the critical humanitarian and environmental challenges and solutions facing fellow human beings who are struggling for their very survival, we are facilitating deep personal transformation that in turn creates funding action clean energy, children’s education, basic medical services and safe drinking water.”
In a world where continuing the status quo with where we get our energy just doesn’t cut it anymore, Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel seeks out organizations like Black Rock Solar, where every $1 donated, it results in $15 worth of value. Really? How? They specifically install solar on schools, medical clinics, and other places that would otherwise not be able to afford it themselves. The resulting energy savings frees up more funds for their more mission focused activities. So the next time you want to combine your values with a vacation, consider Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel.
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Ethiopia has yielded some of humanity’s oldest traces, making the area a primary factor in the origin and developmental history of humanity. Ethiopia has the largest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa and the country is famous for its Olympic distance athletes, rock-hewn churches and as the origin of the coffee bean. HI-RESOLUTION ETHIOPIA SLIDESHOW
Since 2005 Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel has established itself as the trusted leader in creating personally customized Experiential Philanthropic Travel catalyzing over $1,000,000 dollars in donations between our corporate commitment of $250 per traveler and the generosity of our philanthropic clients.
Experientially Explore Ethiopia with Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel’s commitment to partnering with High Impact Non-Profits worldwide who are helping local communities find a sustainable way to get past their daily march for survival has been well received by travelers and the Non-Profit NGO’s visited as well as the international press.
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The Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel experience integrates indigenous local culture into every personalized experience we recommend. These personal introductions create authentic cross cultural friendships that generate trust, respect, and generous donations funding philanthropic travel projects worldwide.
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Seeing a cheetah is great, but facing up to poverty can reshape the way you see the your world.
The Globalization of Empathy™
Suddenly, sundowner cocktails are interrupted as the tracker shouts “Get in the jeep-now!” Fifteen yards away, a cheetah has killed an impala -not an unusual scene in any number ofExquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel southern Africa (Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa) safari camps and lodges. So begins the southern Africa philanthropic travel experience planned by Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel.
The Pioneer in Philanthropic Travel
Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where huge herds range across the terrain, and other responsible travel camps, which employs Bushmen as trackers.
But for Pam Donlin, a former banker who traveled there last year, the most memorable moment came in the Zambian bush at the Butterfly Tree Project.
The Butterfly Tree is a UK Registered Charity (501c3) nonprofit supported by Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel, who runs a school and health center near Victoria Falls, Zambia.
Donlin, her husband, and her two kids met AIDS orphans and gave out clothes. “If part of travel can be helping others, and can create awareness in one’s self, it’s a great thing,” says Donlin, who donated a $2,500 (upon returning to the USA with guidance from Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel) water well and educational funds.
The trip wound up at the Royal Livingstone Hotel, where monkeys scamper through the marble lobby. You can hear Victoria Falls and see the mist from the hotel. Says Donlin: “I thought, Do I ever have to leave?”
The Give: Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel donates $250 per traveler to a local nonprofit throughout Africa, Asia, India, Europe and the Americas.
The Get: The knowledge that you are helping children receive education and clean water.
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Americans Helping Americans in 2009
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel announces Americans helping Americans Philanthropic Travel (PROBONO): Leaving the Mines Behind Empowering Appalachia: May 31 to June 7, 2009
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“If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time but if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” -Indigenous Saying
Philanthropic Travel: Enlightened Experiences
The Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel experience integrates indigenous local culture into every personalized experience we recommend. These personal introductions create authentic cross cultural friendships that generate trust, respect, and generous donations funding philanthropic travel projects worldwide.
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PHILANTHROPIC TRAVEL IS NOT VOLUNTOURISM
“Philanthropic Travel is a fund raising learning experiencebetween a traveler/donor and a host/beneficiary which culminates in a 100% transparent monetary donation (NOT a gift in kind: ie. a pre-purchased ‘Book Box’) to the visited NGO/501c3:A Vacation in Generosity.
Recent articles in Smart Money Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Voluntourism in Depth: Hip or Hype?, World Hum: A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe and Canada’s National Post clearly define the profound differences between Voluntourism and Philanthropic Travel.
Voluntourism is a service experience that donates a traveler’s labor and time.” -David Chamberlain, Founder: Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel
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Jane Kaye-Bailey, Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel humanitarian NGO partner in Victoria Falls, Zambia will be delivering a keynote on Philanthropic Travel to the World Travel Market entitled, “Travel with Conscience.”
Speaker: Jane Kaye-Bailey, Philanthropic Traveler & Exquisite Safaris Humanitarian Partner
World Travel Market London 2007 : “Luxury Travel with a Conscience” by Jane Kaye Bailey
Monday November 12, 2007 12.30 – 13.30 North Gallery Room 8 Level 2
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Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel is grateful to have been recognized as a travel industry leader in Philanthropic Travel by The 2008 World Travel Market: The Global Event for the Travel Industry.
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel has pioneered the Philanthropic Travel experience by forging mutually beneficial fund raising partnerships with high impact NGOs serving in destination communities worldwide.
By educating philanthropic travelers on the critical humanitarian and environmental challenges and solutions facing fellow human beings who are struggling for their very survival, we are facilitating deeply meaningful, personally transformative vacation experiences that are funding clean energy, children’s education, basic medical services and safe drinking water.
With all due respect to Caroline Bremner, Head of Travel and Tourism Research for Euromonitor International and author of the 2008 Global Trends Report, Philanthropic Travel is not a “trend,” reserved only for the “socially conscious jet set,” as she has reported.
The cynical and nihilistic assertion that Philanthropic Travel is motivated by upper class guilt, assuaged by “conscientious consumption,” is inconsistent with thetestimony from our clients, who seek to connect at the heart with indigenous people.
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel clients report that our facilitated, personal introductions to high impact NGOs left them with a renewed belief in themselves and their purpose in life.
Client donations, which far exceed our company’s industry-leading $250 per traveler donation, have empowered local communities to gain a foothold on sustainability.
We Know the World by Heart: Exquisite Safaris
The cornerstone of our success is creating an awareness in the traveler/donor and host/beneficiary that the “Circle of Giving” is only completed when a personal relationship is created face to face -the moment when gifts flow in both directions.
The resulting intimacy, trust and confidence between newfound collaborators has inspired and educated children, parents, boyfriends, girlfriends, mothers, fathers, grandparents and even the most jaded world weary travelers with clear evidence that one person can create powerful change -if they just make the journey with philanthropic intent .
Philanthropic Travel: The Globalization of Empathy
Unless you are a doctor, dentist, solar power specialist or have a technical skill that is urgently needed at the time, our NGO partners report that cash donations, which fund teachers salaries, employ local labor, and purchase local materials, are more important than ‘gifts in kind or short term volunteer labor.’
Philanthropic Travel is a learning experience, not a service experience like voluntourism.
Philanthropic Travel: It benefits everyone
We agree with the Ms. Bremner’s assertion:
“Travellers who do not have time to spend their holiday volunteering are more likely to choose industry suppliers that support local communities by paying market wages or by donating a portion of profits. However, the mass market is not willing to take on a price premium to switch to this type of supplier.”
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel prices our three, four and five star philanthropic travel experiences at market rates as compared with similar non-philanthropic tour operators or even do it yourself travelers who would piece together airlines, guides, vehicles and accommodations for an ‘apples to apples’ trip a la carte.
Our $250 donation to our NGO partner does not add to the cost, it is subtracted from our revenue.
Philanthropic Travelers: Better Angels
During each of our journeys, there are those inevitable moments when someone comes into our life at precisely the right time and says or does precisely the right thing. Their words or actions may help us perceive ourselves more clearly, remind us that everything will turn out for the best, help us cope, or see us through difficult situations.
These people are Better Angels -individuals designated by a higher power to be there for those in need at specific points in time.
Better Angels, come into our lives when we least expect them and when we can most benefit from their presence.
Most Better Angels are regular people, going about their daily lives until inspired to be in the right place at the right time to bring peace, joy, help, or heal someone when they most need it.
You may have met a Better Angel in the form of a teacher who gave you a piece of advice that touched your soul and influenced your path.
Perhaps it was a person that momentarily stopped you to say hello while crossing the street, delaying you long enough to avoid an oncoming car.
Better angels may offer nothing more than a kind word, smile, and a generous anonymous donation -but they will offer it when you can draw the most strength and support from their simple action. Better Angels give of their inner light to all who need it, coming into our lives and often changing us forever.
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The Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel experience integrates indigenous local culture into every personalized experience we recommend. These personal introductions create authentic cross cultural friendships that generate trust, respect, and generous donations funding philanthropic travel projects worldwide.
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Randall Manley, principal of Lodestar Private Asset Management, says that charitable giving is moving away from simply writing a blank cheque. “The idea of donors seeing where their dollars are going to work and the impact that can have is very important and will allow significantly more money to be raised in the future,” he says, adding that it also serves as a way of educating the next generation about the value of philanthropy.
“It’s also very helpful -a moral compass for kids from wealthy families.” Mr Manley has set up a foundation called Make It Real, which will take private clients on cultural trips with a philanthropic mission.
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel, a luxury tour company that specialises in creating these bespoke trips, is working with Mr Manley to plan two trips for Lodestar and its clients -one to Appalachia in the US next year and one to Central America in 2010. Clients on the Appalachia trip will visit local music and arts events in Eastern Kentucky and work with disadvantaged children, producing documentaries through a programme run by Appalshop, a local non-profit organisation.
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel works with US non-profits and non-governmental organisations in developing countries, and alsodonates $250 per traveller to its humanitarian project partner wherever a trip takes place.
David Chamberlain, its founder, says that while “voluntourism” -volunteering while on holiday -is well established, philanthropic travel, involving a short visit to a project, but a longer -term relationship and commitment of funds from the traveller, is not.
“What non-profits tell us they need more than anything else is funds,” he says.
“They need would-be donors to come to see them, vet the project, donate generously, tell their friends, family and professional networks, and develop a relationship. All I ask is one morning or afternoon of their vacation.”
That could come, for example, in a half-day visit during a luxury safari in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia to an NGO assisting rural communities decimated by HIV/AIDS, he says.
-Financial Times Tuesday November 25, 2008
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Exquisite Safaris is committed to uplifting world communities by supporting your efforts through intimate personal introductions. Our mission is to transform travelers into philanthropic travelers by introducing them to your program for a morning or afternoon visit with you and the thankful people you empower. Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel connects you to a network of well intentioned, caring philanthropic individuals and their children who want to collaborate in a meaningful way while traveling.
Dear Corporate CSR Initiative Leaders and Stakeholders and Donors: Partner with Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel.
“We get stakeholders on the ground visiting communities where they have business and philanthropic interests. Combining business opportunities with NGO project/community visits with cultural immersion and empathetic insight is essential for effective oversight and sustainable donor support worldwide.” -David Chamberlain
Exquisite Safaris Corporate Donor Travel Services provides organizations with professional stakeholder visits to NGO projects that are aligned with their company’s humanitarian, economic and environmental CSR goals initiatives. Exquisite Safaris Corporate Donor Travel leverages Creative Capitalism Model to create, manage and support customized CSR Initiatives.
Philanthropic Travel: Collaboration creates Prosperity
Through conferences, regular newsletters, and speaking engagements, Exquisite Safaris promotes our humanitarian outreach partners and your inspiring efforts to empower people around the world.
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“If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time but if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” -Indigenous Saying
Philanthropic Travel: Enlightened Experiences
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“Exquisite Safaris is wonderful because it combines the best of everything. You get world-class accommodations, the top notch activities, and then end up at a project that is life changing.” –Travel Connoisseur Magazine
“Visiting the Matare neighborhood outside Nairobi was a powerful experience for our family. What we encountered grabbed our hearts. Living there does not make for an easy life, and it is so much different from what we know. And yet we found our hearts warmed from this unforgettable experience. Franklin opened the community up to us in ways we would have never been able to see ourselves. We enjoyed a chance to hear people’s stories, to learn about their hopes and dreams, and to enjoy playing sports with local youth. Franklin’s outreach is powerful, and since our visit we now feel like we can help him make a difference through our growing friendship. Our lives will never be the same and we look forward to visiting again.” -Amber Dowd
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“If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time but if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” -Indigenous Saying
Philanthropic Travel: Enlightened Experiences
The Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel experience integrates indigenous local culture into every personalized luxury trip we recommend. These personal introductions create authentic cross cultural friendships that generate trust, respect, and generous donations funding philanthropic travel projects worldwide.