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Global Eco-Spiritual Tours
Basic Information
Address: 250 S. Ocean Blvd. #266, Delray Beach, FL 33483
Phone Number: 561-266-0096
Fax Number: 561-266-0092
Email: global@paradista.net
Director: Christopher L. Perry
Additional Information
Causes Served: Environment; Culture Immersion; Education
Clearances Required: Yes
Background Check: No
Population Served: About 10,000 in Leh-Ladakh, northern India; Himalayan Mountains
Ages for Volunteer: Responsible teens to hardy seniors.
Hours of Service: About 40 hours per volunteer
Minimum Hours Required: No minimum required, Usually about 40 hours per volunteer
Days of Service: We offer a 12-day, set itinerary that the group follows together.
Mission Statement:
“Our primary goals are to make contributions to the educational and health care needs of impoverished children through our member donations; to improve the environment in our tour region with simple sustainable development projects through our member work; and to introduce and educate our members to expand their perspective of other cultures in our tour region.”
Philosophy/Belief Statement:
Our non-profit tour program is based on participant funding where Tour Members will do simple volunteer work in areas of alternative energy, biodiversity, water resources, waste cleanup, agriculture, endangered species and glacial movement. While on tour, members will be immersed in the spiritual nature of the region by visiting ancient monasteries, interacting with Buddhist monks and lamas, attending summer harvest festivals, learning Buddhist meditation techniques and making sand mandalas. Global Eco-Spiritual Tours is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that donates proceeds from the tour to local schools in our tour area through our member donations.
Program History:
Since 2001, we have provided a unique travel adventure combining eco-tourism and spiritual awareness in the area where our groups tour. For the donor member, this is a charitable contribution that you participate in as you travel. If you are a spiritually oriented, ecologically minded person with a sense of adventure, then come join us for a trip of your lifetime.
Events:
Our program offers trips that combine ecotourism and spiritual awareness. As a part of the ecotourism aspect of the trip, volunteers undertake ecological volunteer projects such as planting sapling trees, installing solar panels on remote homes, cleaning up littered campsites along mountain trails, installling garbage bins at heavy trash areas, locating and identifying endangered species for scientists, bottling pure mountain spring water for local charities, and marking glacial retreats during the summer melt. Volunteers also participate in local cultural life by visiting and exploring monasteries, participating in summer harvest festivals at watermills, attending meditation and prayer sessions at monasteries, constructing sand mandalas and visiting with local families.
Additional Information:
Volunteer for an adventure in the heart of the Himalayan Mountains in Leh-Ladakh, this June, July and Aug. 4-15. A charitable contribution you participate in as you travel, tour members spend 10 days in the environmental landscape and ancient culture of northern India. The combination of a strikingly beautiful, fragile ecology and the mystical rich heritage of the Buddhist culture provides the ideal setting for combining eco-tourism and spiritual discovery.
Student rates available.