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Sustainable travel
Travel that supports local communities Since the pandemic dominated our lives nearly two years ago, we have all started to realise that we have a responsibility to be better. Better custodians for our fragile planet and its ecosystems and better at looking after our people. Tourism can play a vital role in looking after both people and planet, and we wanted to highlight a few community projects which we think are worth supporting.
Low Season Traveller
Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka
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Founded in 1958, Sarvodaya seeks a no-poverty, noaffluence society in Sri Lanka through community-based efforts and volunteerism. You can travel to the most remote mountain settlements and still find signs of Sarvodaya: a seamstress who got her start from a loan through her village bank; a healthy child who benefits from home visits by a young mother trained by Sarvodaya in early childhood development; a hand pump well provided by Sarvodaya’s efforts. Or perhaps a hand-hewn road that brings poor villages into physical and psychological touch with the outside world. It is in the building of such roads that the movement actualises its most moving testimony of greatness. In village after village where hopelessness and poverty ruled, Sarvodaya has engaged people to live by the motto: “We build the road and the road builds us.” By travelling with Low Season Traveller on our Signature Low Season Journey to Sri Lanka in 2022, you will be contributing directly to Sarvodaya and will have the opportunity to see first-hand the difference your travel can make at the community village school in Sigiriya.
Tree-planting with Sarvodaya
