2025 Sponsored Projects
Travel Elevates is pleased to announce eight grant recipients for 2025. You will find details of the sponsored projects below and additional information about these charities on their websites.
Enhancing Educational Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future
Tanzania, Africa | Children in the Wilderness aims to facilitate sustainable conservation through leadership development and education of children in Africa.
This grant will include construction of a new classroom, renovating older educational rooms and providing solar energy to Gwikongo Primary and Manyara Secondary schools. In addition, funding will also provide specialized training for teachers and help support the growing eco-club conservation activities in both schools.
Mbirikiri Primary School Renovation
Tanzania, Africa | Wild Impact recognizes by preserving ecosystems and educating the next generation, the communities they serve will become resilient and grow.
This project aims to address overcrowded classrooms and inadequate sanitation at the Mbirikiri Primary School. The grant will provide the renovation of three classrooms, construction of two additional ones, and sixteen new ablutions for the school. These additions will improve the educational outcome and hygiene for the students 4-11 years of age.
Sostenibilidad
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic | Fundacion Grupo Punta Cana works to serve social and environmental challenges by creating a vision of Caribbean development that balances economic growth and community empowerment.
This grant will support helping to build alternative economic stability for former fishermen and young marine biology graduates through education and skills training in sustainable fish farming, marine conservation and aquaculture. The program will include paid internships, PADI certifications for technicians and aquaculture workshops.
Empowering Futures: Community Learning & Digital Skill Labs
Peru & Colombia | Make a Miracle works to bring lasting change to travel destinations in Colombia and Peru by partnering with their communities to transform lives through education and community projects.
Travel Elevates will establish computer and learning labs in three key communities of Peru & Colombia. The new labs will provide technical and digital skills training for students and community members. Funding will also include the purchase of computers, resources and internet, along with training that will include coding workshops and job assistance.
Memorable Travel Group (DMC)
Sardinal High School CSR Program
Sardinal, Costa Rica | Memorable Travel helps to transform lives through education and opportunity in Sardinal, a community challenged by poverty and limited resources.
This newly established program will help provide future job opportunities in the tourism sector to students who are at a high-risk of dropping out. The Memorable Travel Group in collaboration with Travel Elevates this year, will provide English and IT lessons to low-income juniors and seniors at Sardinal High School, located in the rural coastal area of Guanacaste. Expansion to help more students in other regions is the plan.
Training Center for Joy & Healing
Port-au-Prince, Haiti | Life is Good Playmaker Project teaches educators and parents how to help kids heal from trauma. The goal of the project is to help children build positive relationships and shared experiences to heal, grow and thrive.
This project addresses ways to help children better heal from the trauma experienced due to extreme poverty and gang violence in Haiti. The Playmaker Project trains local teachers, parents and caregivers on providing positive support and build joyful relationships with young children (3-12 yrs). The Travel Elevates grant will train 400 teachers and impact 1,000 children. Funding will also help renovate the program’s community center.
Transforming Lives Through Education in Zambia
Zambia, Africa | Abercrombie & Kent Philanthropy projects create real transformation through education and conservation to foster connection between travelers and locals.
This grant project will help continue the expansion of the Nakatindi Primary & Secondary school which has been part of an ongoing partnership between AKP and the Nakatindi community. Travel Elevates grant will fund two new science labs and one home economic building to be used by the school’s 1,200 primary and secondary students.
Sewing for Empowerment & Sustainability
Cape Town and Groblershoop Northern Cape, South Africa | Uthando (Love) South Africa works to support a collection of community development projects that include a focus on children and education.
This initiative addresses poverty, gender-based violence and unemployment by providing women and youth the opportunity to be trained by professionals, learning how to create, sew and produce eco-friendly merchandise. The goal is to help provide permanent employment in the sewing rooms at the Philisa Abafazi Bethu (Heal our Women) Center in Cape Town.