Trip Idea - Plan : 2009 or 2010 - Ecotourism - Environment - Charity -
Sponsorships



Duration 1 to 2 to 3 years.



Group.Size To be determined.



Plan - Travel around the world.

1. Go to every region of the world. In the name of the environment and
charity organizations. To raise awareness for environmental responsibility
and charity organizations. To be able spread the message to other nations of
the world of the cause and promote environment responsibility.



2. Raise money for the charity or charities we represent



3. Be sponsored by many companies for the duration of the trip or
single portions of trip etc.



4. Do charity work in different regions of the world. Represent a
charity the do charity in regions eg. Costa Rica - Save the Turtles, Habitat
for Humanity



5. Travel and then stop for a while in one region and work, charity
work etc and check out all sights, explore cultures, peoples etc.



6. Travel for charity, sightsee, do trekking adventures, out door
adventures. Eg.trek to mt everest, camel journey across Sahara desert, train
across Siberia, etc.



7. If possible, get in touch with a film crew. To film and document the
whole project. Eg. Get film students, crew, get in contact with various tv
stations of travel/adventure shows if possible.



Transportation - Uses of public transportation - buses, boats, kayaks,
canoes, walking, trekking, hiking , biking rollerblading etc. Use Trains
and buses and any public transport.

Try not to use taxis or personal motor vehicles of planes due to large
amount of carbons produced by these modes of transportation.



Route - To be determined - the following is predetermined, may change - open
to suggestions as research is made



Start in the UK - then venture around in European Countries. Venture in to
Greece, Greek Isles. Africa. Russia, Asian Countries. China, Vietnam, Japan,
etc.

India then over to Pacific Region, Australia, New Zealand etc.



Do South American Countries, try to do all countries there within in region.
Then up to Central America - Costa Rica, Mexico etc.



Then to North America - USA, Canada etc.



Representation - Travel in the name of a charity group. Eg, Parkinsons
Disease or a few others as our main purpose.



Have funds by all our sponsors.



Have a positive experience on the world.



Create a Message to follow by. Our motto.



Individuals.



Ideas- Anyone out there, know any languages - read and write would be
valuable. In other languages.



This idea is for anyone who is willing to sacrifice and drop everything for
a long duration..



You don't have to do the entire length of trip. One can do one portion or
small portions.



Looking to set up name of the team/group this will be called.



Open to suggestions/ideas from anyone out there/



Feel free to msg your admins or myself, for questions or ideas u may have

Feel free to research areas of the world or offer advice on things that can
make this adventure interesting.



Will be adding more later on this.



email me at koss78b@yahoo.ca

or on here. This is an idea of the life time.

Three words... GET A JOB.

Save your money like everyone else. On the other hand if you can find some company to fund your trip I say more power to yah.

I agree with Eric, it will honestly be quite difficult to get "sponsored" and have your travels paid for regardless how noble your cause is.

You could get a job, save some money, buy a decent HD video camera, travel a bit and record some of your adventures and/or humanitarian work THEN possibly sell your footage to a news agency, tv station etc.

This is basically freelancing. If you are interesting enough, and the news/tv station likes your footage then they might give you some cash for future episodes. It is a very competitive market; but it can be done if you are a very creative person

Good luck!

Luke

That is more of the plan. To really just work and pay for the entire budget ourselves.

Then have sponsors on the side etc. To supply items. Help out abit.

I doubt anyone would fund the entire thing from a corporation.

Working on it.

Anyone interested in pursuing this.

email me directly
at koss78b@yahoo.ca

DUDE!!!! Make a reality show about the Peace Corps... seriously I'm not trying to be snarky this time. That is pure gold and my idea from me to you. Sell it to PBS and radio rights to Air America.

Peace Out

I agree with u all. I just wanted to get a public opinion poll.

To make or see if such a thing was possible.

i didn't think by a long shot.

However thanks to you guys. I won the bet!!

cheers!

More show ideas

Vagabondage for late nights on HBO

Peace Out - Peace Corps Reality Show

The Real No Reservations - getting a room at midnight in a
place you have never been.


and...

WTF!?! - a cultural perspective.

Don't let these peeps discourage you too much. There are options. I met a guy in India that was biking from Australia to Switzerland, and he had tonnes of different companies sponsoring him.

his website is: www.alexkaeslin.com

Good Luck!

you mean something like http://www.expeditionequus.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDun92kOVU (she crossed India on an elephant, blind)

I was sponsored on a trip once. They gave us team jerseys, and offered to sell us $500 sunglasses for "only" $250.

I don't think sponsorship works the way you're thinking. Unless you're famous, and I mean Lance Armstrong levels of famous, no one is going to pay you to have fun.

I met a woman who paddled across the Pacific. She had major sponsors - but hardly enough to cover her trip.

I've met documentary film crews overseas and here, but they front their own costs and then hope that they can sell their product afterwards.

Those charities you want to work for don't pay you. You pay them, and you often pay them far more to work for them than you would pay if you just stayed in a local budget hotel.

This is a nice fantasy, but, sorry, I can't see it being anything more than a fantasy. In the real world, you need to pay your own way. No one is going to do it for you.

The problem I see with your project is that it looks like you want to do it to travel around the world without paying. I'm not saying that it's what you want to do, but that's how a potential corporate sponsor might see it. I'm not sure of the impact you would have in all these different locations if you stay little time there, maybe you should pick one location to start with, to gain experience and credibility. I'm not saying that you should abandon your project, but you should approach it step by step.

Something that you could do right now is to work for local charities where you live. You will gain exprience and I'm sure some valuable contacts that will help you develop and fund your project. Then you could start by shooting documentaries about the people in need of your own community, once again for experience and credibility building. The competition is huge for TV shows, you better build a name for yourself before thinking about producing one.

If you really want to do it, everything is possible. But don't try to do something too big at first. Start small and build your way up.

That sounds like great work if you can get it. If you have a track record, of producing quality TV it might be a little less impossible. Do you have any samples that you can show potential sponsors? Maybe head out for a short spell, shoot some video of what your show will be like, then approach people.

Leaps of faith ain't cheap. I spend $8K on a trip that I thought would make a good book. I got lucky; a publisher picked it up shortly after I returned. But the odds were against me. I could have just as easily got stuck with $8K in debt. (Of course, we all know that the travel experience was worth way more than that!)