Mindful Travel
We believe that the first step to making a difference in the way we travel and the impact we have, is by being aware of our actions and their impact. When we travel there are a few simple steps we can take each time, to lessen our impact on the environments we visit. Here is a simple checklist to get you started.
Community
GirlsTrek Giving
At GirlsTrek, the word ‘impact’ means so much to us – it’s central to everything we do.
For example, we are keenly aware of the impact a GirlsTrek experience has on not only the GirlTrekker who joins us but, quite significantly, on those around her too. We see that in the preparation and commitment before the trip. And then we feel her joy and sense of achievement during the trip and the elation when she returns home and shares her stories with family, friends, and work colleagues. All of them are impacted in a positive way too.
As well, as you’d rightly expect, we impact the local communities we visit with our pledge to use local, family owned and operated businesses in the destinations we visit. And we thought you’d like to know that we extend that impact even further too. That’s because, every day, for every Girl Trekker, GirlsTrek extends the impact to change the lives of women and families in need who we most likely will never even meet.
We do that with the help of our partnerships with Sevenwomen.org and Mummy’s Wish.
We have chose to make a real difference in the lives of those who need a helping hand the most.
Stephanie Woollard began Seven Women at age 22 after meeting seven disabled women working in a tin shed in Kathmandu. These seven women were struggling to make a living in the face of harsh discrimination. With her last $200, Steph paid for a trainer to teach the women how to produce products for sale locally and abroad – and Seven Women was born. Since 2006, Steph has built up the Seven Women team and launched an Australian arm for fundraising and a sales channel for our ever growing operation in Nepal.
12 years after her meeting in a tin shed that started it all, over 5,000 women have been educated, trained and employed by Seven Women.
GirlsTrek are assisting SEVENWOMEN with an agricultural project on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Developing a market garden on regenerative farming protocols to provided a secure and consistent line of fresh produce to their guesthouse restaurant, cooking school, families of specific need and the city’s produce market.
Girl Trekker also have the opportunity to sponsor a Nepalese girl to access education for $250 per year.
