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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 | By positive_footprints | Views [2625] | Video
Like lots of travellers, the team at World Nomads believes that we’ve all got a responsibility to give back to the places in which we travel.
We sat down with World Nomads Footprints Co-Founder Christy McCarthy to talk about the history of the ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, community development proejcts, footprints, give back, micro-donations, positive footpr, travel, world nomads
WORLDWIDE | Sun, 6 Mar 2011 | By nomads-news | Views [4110] | Video
In Feb 2011, I was honoured to be invited to speak at TEDx Phnom Penh. I've always been a massive fan of TED conferences so this was a bit of chance to realise a dream to speak at such an event. TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) is ... Read more >
Tags: charity funding, csr, footprints, footprintsnetwork.org, social entrepreneur, social innovation, world nomads, worldnomads.com
VIETNAM | Thu, 15 Apr 2010 | By positive_footprints | Views [9588] | Comments [1] | Video
Positive Footprints - Vietnam Village Trek - tells the story of how a
group of committed healthcare professionals gave their time and
expertise to bring medical care to remote villages in the Mai Chau
Highlands, Northern Vietnam. Supported by local ... Read more >
Tags: documentary, footprints, health, medical trek, positive footprints, trekking, vietnam, volunteering, voluntourism, world nomads
USA | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 | By raquelwilson | Views [645] | Video
I've been going through the Positive Footprint videos and have found them to be both refreshing and inspiring. Here is one of my favorites.
Tags: footprints, nepal
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 | By nomads-news | Views [3486]
Tackling CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility One of the most challenging things a company can face is how to decide what form their CSR strategy might take. Do we take a holistic approach and look at all of the potential pillars in terms of our ... Read more >
Tags: community development, corporate social responsibility, csr, footprints, footprints network, world nomads, worldnomads.com
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 1 Dec 2008 | By nomads-news | Views [1148]
It's with great pleasure, loud voice and a fair whack of yahooooo that we can announce that our online philanthropy project Footprints , has now raised $500,000 from more than 180,000 micro donations since its inception. For those of you who ... Read more >
Tags: csr, customers, footprints, footprints network, milestone
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 20 Sep 2007 | By nomads_podcasts | Views [2081]
Kick back and tune in to the second episode of our World Nomads News Podcast. Our
intrepid World Nomads reporter Kerry Lorimer kicks off this month
interviewing Kevin Allgood & Valerie Marshall , two intrepid World Nomads who've taken the reigns ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, footprints, podcast, world nomads podcasts
PERU | Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | By solbeam | Views [2784] | Comments [1]
Before we leave the
village
of
Quelqanqa
, we take one last tour of the sites laying (quite physical) tribute to
the successes of our manual labor. We walk down the valley to visit the
new stone bridge and ... Read more >
Tags: footprints, peru, philosophy of travel
PERU | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 | By solbeam | Views [1326]
Our first mistake is thinking that we’ve come to organize and/or manage; our first lesson is realizing that the locals coordinating this project are professionally skilled and competent, and that the most valuable things we really have to offer are ... Read more >
Tags: culture, footprints, peru
PERU | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 | By solbeam | Views [2452] | Comments [1]
“Oh! It’s just so beautiful! To live in this amazing valley, pulling your meals from your garden, surrounded by your extended family, breathing fresh Andes air with views of glaciated peaks out your windows, all while living so close to the ground and ... Read more >
Tags: andes, footprints, history & politics, peru
NORWAY | Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By kipnomad | Views [11842] | Comments [2]
OK, So it's not a rocking city. More like visiting Canberra ( Australia's capital city) but adding culture and multiplying the cost of everything by 4. We're here for the Global Ecotourism Conference and my colleague at World Nomads, Christy ... Read more >
Tags: conference, culture, ecotourism, footprints, norway, oslo, sculpture, vigelands, world nomads
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 10 May 2007 | By nomads_podcasts | Views [11409]
We're proud to release the inaugural World Nomads News Podcast. Our intrepid World Nomads reporter Kerry Lorimer kicks off this month interviewing Dr Simon Davis , who along with his best mate Craig James , travelled the silk route, stopping ... Read more >
Tags: footprints, podcast, world nomads podcasts
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 9 May 2007 | By nomads_podcasts | Views [2366] | Comments [2]
Dr. Simon Davis was recently interviewed on the Australian radio station Triple J - Hack Program , about his experience working to provide medical treatment & supplies to less fortunate communities whilst travelling the silk route, with funding ... Read more >
Tags: audio files, footprints, podcast
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [1831]
Well what can we say, we did it. We made it overland from India to Europe. For the two of us it has been a truly life changing experience that would not have been possible without the support of World Nomads and their charity Footprints. So after 5 ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, footprints
UKRAINE | Wed, 1 Nov 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [6018] | Comments [4]
Compared to the places we have come from the Ukraine was a curious mixture of money and poverty. With a long history of wealth and power but a short history under the Russian Soviets it is trying to find it's feet and is even making murmurings of joining ... Read more >
Tags: doctors, footprints, hospitals & health, orphanage
KYRGYZSTAN | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [13411] | Comments [20]
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital, is a beautiful modern city with a fair smattering of department stores, nice hotels and fine restaurants but as is often the case if you stray from the main streets then you get a more realistic picture of the state of ... Read more >
Tags: doctors, footprints, hospitals & health
INDIA | Thu, 6 Jul 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [4298] | Comments [5]
This week we had the opportunity to represent Footprints (World Nomad’s charity) in Siliguri, where we visited 2 communities of Stone breakers: Chenga: pop-2500, no electricity, water, or sewage, the nearest hospital was a 12km WALK (that’s ... Read more >
Tags: doctors, footprints, hospitals & health