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DONATE VIA PAYPAL

You can donate via paypal using any of the credit or debit cards above, or with your paypal account.

If you wish your donation to be used for a specific project or purpose, please email us to let us know.

***NEW: POSTCARDS FOR SALE!***

Message from the volunteer who co-ordinated the postcards mini-project:

"Hello there my name is Michael  Leckie from New Zealand and with many others from around the world (England, Australia, France, USA, Germany,  Scotland) I have spent the last two months volunteering for Taveller Not Tourist based in Arequipa, Peru. There are two volunteer options:  An English school which helps improves the chances of many kids on the outskirts of Arequipa for employment in tourism, translating, teaching and any other field that requires English. Option two is the Orphanage which consists of kids taken from their unfit parents for their own safety because of their family’s involvement in violence, drugs and all sorts of crime! In the past couple of weeks with the other eager to help volunteers we have come up with this idea of sending out postcards of the children to our supporters all over the world.

After working here we have noticed that the school and orphanage is in more need of money for maintenance and general supplies, for example the orphanage spends around 75 soles (26.4 USD) every two days on milk powder for the babies alone. From another volunteer I was told that a hostel cleaner gets payed around ten soles a day. For each postcard made and sent it has cost us 90 centimos for production and 5.5 soles to send anywhere in the world, which you'll receive if you make a donation.

Your help will make the volunteer’s job more achievable and the children’s life more comfortable. For family and friends you can now finally receive a postcard from Arequipa. I would like to thank all the past and present volunteers for putting your time and effort into the school and orphanage, you have already done more than enough but if you want to add to your great memories this postcard will certainly do that!

 Thanks for your time, Regards Mike"

You can purchase any of the postcards (shown below) and we will post them to you, wherever you are in the world (or we could send it to someone else from you - just write their name and address in the "special instructions" box).

The price includes a donation, which will be used in one of our projects.

You can choose what size you would like your donation to be:

  • If you choose option (a), you pay £3 (total). Your donation will be £1.40p (around s/.6 in the local currency). This is enough to buy 36 bread rolls!
  • If you choose option (b), you pay £4 (total). Your donation will be £2.36p (around s/.10 in the local currency). This is enough to buy 30 eggs!
  • If you choose option (c), you pay £5 (total). Your donation will be £3.33p (around s/.14 in the local currency). This is enough to buy 4 kilograms of rice!

Of course, the examples above are just to give you an idea of what we can do with your money - we won't necessarily buy bread rolls, eggs or rice with your donation! Whatever we buy though you can be sure that it will be used to benefit children living in poverty in Arequipa.

If you buy a whole pack of postcards your donation will be considerably more - you can see what it will buy in the drop down box below the picture of all the postcards.

Please note that postage to anywhere in the world AND the donation are both included in the price shown below the postcards.

POSTCARD 1: KIDS ON THE "CANCHA" (BASKETBALL COURT)

Postcard 1: Kids on the "Cancha" (Basketball Court)

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POSTCARD 2: KIDS ON THE WALL - COLOUR

Postcard 2: Kids on the wall - Colour

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POSTCARD 3: KIDS ON THE STAIRS

Postcard 3: Kids on the stairs

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POSTCARD 4: GIRLS ON THE SWING

Postcard 3: Girls on the swing

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POSTCARD 5: KIDS WALKING HOME

Postcard 5: Kids walking home

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POSTCARD 6: KIDS ON THE WALL - BLACK & WHITE

Postcard 6: Kids on the wall - black & white

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POSTCARD PACK: ONE OF EACH

Postcard Pack

 

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We think you have a right to know exactly where your money goes so here's the lowdown - When we receive your donation in Peru we will either give it straight to the Manager of the Orphanage, who will use it for whatever the children/orphanage needs (nappies, milk, food, rent etc) or we will use it to buy necessary equipment or pay bills/maintenance etc for the School.

However, before it gets to us paypal will take 3.4% of your donation through transaction fees plus 20p (£0.20 UK) - click here for the Paypal webpage about charges. If you are donating money in any currency other than UK pounds, they will also take a percentage for the currency exchange (the amount depends on which currency you donate in).

If you are buying a postcard/postcards we will deduct the price of postage from the amount we get before passing it on to a project.

If you don't have spare cash to donate, perhaps you would like to donate some time to our cause (you can even do it from the comfort of your own home!) - see below for ideas.

If this is something you are interested in (and you are in the UK) perhaps you would like to attend our Volunteers and Supporters Meeting on October 16th 2010 in Bristol, UK. For more details, just email us or take a look at the Facebook page.

   
VOLUNTEERING FROM HOME    
   

One of the things that will really help to sustain and improve our project work, and ensure that it keeps on improving, is exposure. If you know of any places or websites where advertising about Traveller Not Tourist could be beneficial (think traveller's websites, churches, universities and colleges etc) we would be very grateful if you could put up a sign or even a note with this website address on it. I can send you a prewritten statement to put on websites and/or the logo for links. Just email me at the address below and I will gladly send it to you. We can also send you marketing materials (posters and flyers) although we would appreciate it if we could send you the electronic versions and you could print them out yourself to keep down our administration costs.

Also, if you know of any organisations which arrange project work for travellers (Gap year projects etc) and you think they might be interested in sending people to this project, please let them know about us (or let us know about them).

You might also want to do some fundraising. I did a lot before I left the UK and it was great fun. Think about the resources you have available to you (and don't forget, friends and family are often the best resources!) Perhaps you know a lot of DJs/musicians in which case a dance/battles of the bands night at a local venue might be the best option. Or maybe you know lots of sporty people and could organise a local olympics event. You'll be amazed how willing people are to help out for a good cause. And don't be shy - try your luck by, for example, asking famous local people to attend or even perform, what's the worst that can happen? Failing that, why not try a sponsored event - a silence or famine, sponsored pub crawl (could get messy!) or even a sponsored skydive (some places let you jump for free if you get enough sponsorship). If all of that sounds like too much work, why not get together all the stuff you, and your friends and relatives, don't want anymore and have a jumble sale or car boot sale (yard sale for those of you in the US).

I am more than willing to help out with tips and emotional support so why not give it a go? It is for a good cause after all!

Sponsorship pages coming soon....

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A note from the author:

It might seem that anything you do or donate is just a grain of sand on a vast beach but we have worked with these children, we've seen the joy that simple things, like salt dough, chalk to write on the floor with and even a hug, give them. An important ingredient in creating a better world is the belief that things can get better and an even more important ingredient is to act to make sure your beliefs are realised. Nothing will ever get better if you don't do anything about it!

These children don't want mountain bikes, computer games or the latest Barbie. They just want to have enough food to eat, to be safe and to be loved. We are working to help them achieve this modest dream, and you can be part of that. Please help us to continue our important work.

Thank you