Travel Round the World with Us!
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My name is Teresa Keller and I am a single mom of three children – Jennifer (age 18), Alex (age 13) and Bella (age 12). We have decided to give up our home, school life and job, sell many of our possessions, spend our life savings and borrow against my retirement to backpack around the world. My best friend’s daughter (Meagan, age 17) is coming along to experience the trip with us!
We are covering all of our travel expenses personally by selling our things, using our savings, and borrowing against my retirement funds. All donated funds go to support the projects themselves, which include a well, a community kitchen, a library for a school, a computer lab, a reforestation project, etc.
Through the help of many others, especially my significant other Doug Tilden and the rest of our Board of Trustees, this dream has turned into a formal non-profit called Round the World with Us.
Goals of our non-profit:
1) Raise awareness of global issues, help people to gain a greater understanding of other cultures, and encourage people (especially youth) to see that they have the power to make a real difference in the lives of others.
2) Fund carefully selected humanitarian projects that will help alleviate poverty and other global issues, such as access to clean water, health care and education.
To accomplish goal #1, we have partnered with World Savvy, an organization that distributes content on world affairs issues to thousands of teachers and students, and with the Groton Dunstable Regional School District. Other partnerships are in the works.
Regarding goal #2, you can read more on our projects page but to name just a few, we will raise funds for:
- A new primary school in Cambodia
- Three reading rooms in Laos
- A peer to peer health and sex education program in India
- Reforestation in Tanzania
- A shallow well for a village caring for HIV+ orphans in Kenya
You can make a difference!
- EXPLORE THE WORLD with us on our website and in our blogs to learn more about world affairs issues and the lives of the people we meet
- SPREAD THE WORD – a generous donor has pledged to contribute 5 cents per web visitor per day to our projects!
Note that we are covering all of our travel expenses personally by selling our things, using our savings, and borrowing against my retirement funds. All donated funds go to support the projects themselves.
