Travel Articles: Grants

A 12 day, 2,000 mile race in a auto rickshaw across India with absolutely no support besides a starting and ending point – why would anyone do this? We did it in order to bring more visibility to the clean water crisis in the world. With the help of partners like Adventure Life, we were able to raise $16,000 for charity: water in essence …

Adventure Life provided a grant for $2000 to Mantay shelter for cleaning and hygiene products. The funds allowed the facility to maintain sanitation conditions, as well as carry out personal hygiene workshops where mothers and children could learn hygiene habits.
We are very grateful for all the help of Adventure Life!

Adventure Life provided a grant Long Way Home for completion of the first four primary school bathrooms. These bathrooms will use an “outlaw” septic system (similar to that used by Earthship Biotecture) that processes solid waste and black water through a filtration system and into black water cell sewn with cleansing plants. These four …

Adventure Life partnered with our amazing travelers, Karol & Richard Popkin, to fund a elementary school teacher at Selva Negra School in Nicaragua. See photos from the school of Mirthel teaching.

Adventure Life has graciously given Amani ya Juu (amaniafrica.org) funds to begin renovations on our center in Nairobi, Kenya.

Amani ya Juu means “higher peace” in Swahili. Amani is a fair trade sewing and training program for marginalized women in Africa. Women from many African nations and cultures are learning to work together through …

This April of 2014 begins a new conservationist initiative at the Peruvian Cloud Forest (ACP Bosque Nublado). Thanks to the local association PERU VERDE, Adventure Life and a motivated Mother’s Club of Chontachaca whose combined efforts, hard work and great enthusiasm shall take place in order to set off the improvement of this Community’s …

The Adventure Life grant program sponsored a reforestation project for the Cachiccata and Socma communities. Two thousand trees were planted during the project. The group used a tree call the Tara, which is native to this area in Peru. The tree fruit is another benefit to the community which will be enjoyed for generations to come. It also …

Adventure Life, Yacutinga Lodge and Kallpa T.O. (our local Argentina travel partner) have come together to fund and facilitate a series of environmental education workshops for the Guarani Community Kagui Pora from Argentina's Comandante Andresito. The workshops are specifically designed for the children of the Kagui Pora Community. The curriculum …

Adventure Life partnered with our local office to provide sports supplies to the kids at Antonio Jose de Sucre School. Check out some of the photos from the event!

Just returned from an unforgettable couple of weeks in the Amazon -- where Adventure Life is working on a project with the Rainforest Alliance and USAID to strengthen, lend and receive advice from community-owned lodges in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Had the pleasure to spend time with Achuar, Huaorani, Kichwa and Secoya communities.

Adventure Life partnered this year with our amazing travelers, Karol & Richard Popkin, for a grant to the Hogar de Niñas girls shelter in Granada, Nicaragua. The girls come to the shelter as orphans or if they are not able to live at home due to abuse or poverty. Out of these troubled backgrounds, the nuns at the shelter strive to give the …

Adventure Life partnered with the Legacy Fund to provide a $5000 grant which funded an educational student field trip and reforestation project. The Torres del Paine Legacy Fund is a non-profit travel philanthropy fund that works to enhance the visitor experience and long-term health of Torres del Paine National Park and its surrounding …

The Mantay Shelter in Cusco, Peru, experienced flooding this past year which damaged the bathrooms in the facility. Adventure Life provided funding for repairs to be completed in a timely manner. The Mantay Shelter supports adolescent mothers in reaching a life of dignity for themselves and their children and we at Adventure Life are proud to …

Adventure Life partnered with our local office in Costa Rica to fund a Holiday Party for the students at Cuarros School in December of 2011.

Adventure Life partnered with the Waponi project to purchase lamps and signs for the Secoya Lodge that started its operations officially in January this year. Here are images of the equipment being transported from the fields and rivers to finally reach the community. The Waponi project works to empower local communities to receive guests and …

Adventure Life has funded the building of a retaining wall in Comalapa, Guatemala. The grant project was initiated by Long Way Home and dubbed "The Great Wall of Comalapa".

A whirlwind tour of 6 Ecuadorian lodges in the Amazon! Adventure Life is working with the Rainforest Alliance and USAID to lend support to community owned lodges in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The goals of this project include the preservation of at least 200,000 hectares of Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador -- combined with training and technical …

The Greenberg family decided to give back to the area they were visiting in Peru. They participated in a home restoration Volunteer Service Project in Cachicatta community. They continued their tour on the Salcantay Trek where they ended on the Inca Trail at Machu Picchu ruins.

Adventure Life helped sponsor a holiday party for Galan Community Center, a local community school in Costa Rica. Here's a handful of pictures of the celebration.

The 2009 Art Festival in Antigua, Guatemala has several goals. Our primary goal is to promote art in the associations and communities around Antigua. We began the Art Festival in 2009 and invited five community organizations to participate. Two of the associations already had art programs, but three art programs were created just so the …

Teddy Romero, one of our local Peru guides, ran a naturalist workshop for a group of school kids. Adventure Life sponsored 18 kids, ages 8 to 13, from San Borja School of Cusco. Next year we hope to make this number 50. Teddy hopes these one-on-one workshops will be instrumental in teaching local children about conservation in Peru.

Adventure Life is honored to donate $2,000 to support Hearts in the Ice, an ambitious project headed by Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby. Hilde, from Norway, and Sunniva, from Canada, will be spending 9 months in the high Arctic of Svalbard, Norway. They will serve as citizen scientists, collecting data for Arctic research relating …