(1888PressRelease)
February 22, 2009 - Hands Up Holidays, a travel operator that blends vacation with community service has included families in of its ideal participants who experience its voluntourism trips. Families can now play a role in the community service, while enjoying amazing sightseeing.
With more and more families taking part in volunteer vacations that involve teaching the local children, renovating houses and orphanages and environmental conservation, Hands Up Holidays ensure that the local communities benefit and the environment suffers minimally – and can even benefit - from tourism. The travel operator offers a wide range of international community projects to families in response to the growing demand for a taste of volunteering on vacations.
Family travel is now considered as something more than an occasion for reunion and relaxation: it is an opportunity for both parents and kids to work together on projects for certain communities that need to be improved, thus enhancing family bonding. “A family volunteer vacation is truly an extraordinary program having a far-reaching impact on the people of Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, and I am proud to be the instigator of the program,” stated Christopher Hill, Managing Director of Hands up Holidays.
Almost every family volunteer program includes activities that can set the stage for cultural exchange and establish a bond between volunteers and local people, whether it be building houses, teaching the local children, campaigning to save endangered species such as turtles, or improving sanitation and living conditions in slums. This ensures that family volunteer trips let guests share a desire to “do something good” while experiencing new places and digging deeper into community life in locales they visit.
About volunteer Vacations: A volunteer vacation or volunteer travel is an act of travelling to new places for a charitable cause. Participants in a volunteer vacation do not necessarily need specific skills, but willingness to do something good to benefit underdeveloped and underprivileged communities is vital in order to make a positive impact.
To know more about volunteer vacation, please click on:
http://www.handsupholidays.com/
Or contact:
Christopher Hill, Managing Director,
Hands Up Holidays (http://www.handsupholidays.com)
chris ( @ ) handsupholidays dot com
0044 (0)207193 1062, 0044 (0)776 501 3631
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