Past Sponsored Projects

Travel Elevates is fostering a growing global community. You will find the details of our past sponsored projects below.

Human Connections

Headquartered in Bucerías, Mexico, Human Connections is a non-profit that connects local people with international audiences through travel programs and curated experiences. It’s mission is to increase empathy across cultures and strengthen communities through responsible travel experiences.

  • With the Travel Elevates grant, Human Connections was able to serve both artisans and travelers via virtual learning and partnership development. While this involves new programming, it also directly furthers Human Connections’ mission to increase empathy and strengthen local communities during the pandemic and beyond.

MarAlliance

MarAlliance inspired and enables positive change for threatened marine wildlife, their critical habitats and dependent human communities in Panama, Honduras and Belize. Due to limited access to technology and internet, remote and rural communities in these countries were disproportionately affected by the pandemic and further disconnected from access to educational resources and systems.

  • With the Travel Elevates grant, MarAlliance was able to build on its considerable educational work with an innovative and scalable educational strategy to improve education access and equity across key sites in Panama, Honduras, and Belize.

Conservation Lower Zambezi

Conservation Lower Zambezi is a non-profit organization committed to the protection of wildlife and the sustainable use of natural resources in Zambia’s Lower Zambezi. Founded in 1994, its four pillars include: wildlife protection, environmental education, community empowerment, and wildlife reintroduction and research.

  • The Travel Elevates grant supported scholars and teachers from 60-plus schools that reach over 2,000 scholars annually. This was done through environmental and human-wildlife co-existence education — teaching that there is a symbiotic relationship critical to the vibrant communities in the Lower Zambezi.

Education Africa

Established in 1992, Education Africa delivers quality education to underserved communities. It’s mission? With 30-plus years fostering real change, it provides poverty alleviation via education. With a culture of learning and teaching, it strives to reach and uplift the most vulnerable with opportunities to improve access to relevant education, in turn enabling students to eventually participate in the global economy.

  • The Travel Elevates grant helped address the lack of high-quality early learning opportunities available for South African children. Direct beneficiaries included 113 female educators and 70-percent of youth (ages 18-35) from low socioeconomic status. Indirect beneficiaries included up to 250,000 vulnerable children (ages 3-5) over an average 30-year career span per educator.

Project Luangwa

Established in 2010, Project Luangwa has constructed and built infrastructure for 12 schools, impacting 4,500-plus children in education each year. The backstory: Several of the valley’s tour operators realized the need to empower communities and show the incredible benefits that wildlife and an unspoiled habitat bring to the region.

  • The Travel Elevates grant supported a project titled DigiLearn, which made learning more accessible. The grant enabled Project Luangwa to purchase equipment, including tablets, projector screens, solar panels, and batteries. With the program now fully up and running across multiple sites, it directly impacts nearly 2,000 children every year and has life-long positive results for their families and communities.

PINCC

PINCC’s mission prevents cervical cancer in low and middle-income countries by employing low-cost, yet effective technology. It creates sustainable programs in patient education, medical personnel training, and facility outfitting.

  • The Travel Elevates grant supported HPV self-testing to help conquer cervical cancer. The initiative increased health access and education among reproductive-aged women via the provision of the lifesaving thermoablation device, training in technology use, training in screening, and continued long-term support for education and equipment.