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Please take a look at the information below, and click on any of the highlighted names to link directly to each members website for further information.
The Yachaqui Way Responsible Travel Center is owned and operated by members from the Quechua mountain communities of Vicos, Humacchuco and Huaripampa in partnership with NGO The Mountain Institute in Peru and non-profit community based tourism organization in the U.S., Crooked Trails. Yachaqui Wayi, “House of Knowledge” in Quechua, was developed in 2005 as a place where travelers and locals could come together and share and celebrate cultural diversity. The center’s main aim is to provide educational tools that help tourists travel in a more respectful and responsible way. The center boasts a tour office for booking and learning about community-based tourism, a 10 room hostel, traditional weavers demonstration site and handicrafts store, full kitchen, garden with native plants and hammocks for relaxing and a large educational interpretive center full of books, movies, demonstrations and information on how to travel more environmentally and culturally sensitive so that our visitors can be a part of the positive change in tourism in Peru. Their stay helps support the protection of the natural and cultural heritage of Peru and our communities to achieve socio-economic progress!”
Year Out Group is an association of leading organisations that was launched in 2000 to promote the concept and benefits of a well-structured year out, to promote models of good practice and to help young people and their advisers in selecting suitable and worthwhile projects. Year Out Group has over 30 member organisations that annually place some 30,000 people in projects in UK and over 70 other countries. Members are required to adhere to the Group’s Code of Practice, which includes a statement on ethical considerations. It is intended to expand on this statement, to encourage members to be more active in the field and to monitor progress. By expanding the statement they will increase the awareness of the issue in the minds of those predominantly 17 to 24 year olds who are planning and taking their gap years with the help of Year Out group members.
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