Charitable Travel Partnership with Sand Dams Worldwide

Published in January 2023

Sand Dams Worldwide has partnered with Charitable Travel to offer budding travellers a chance to donate to our charity with your next getaway booking.

How it works:

Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell them you want to support Sand Dams Worldwide. Our charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. See their current offers here!

About Charitable Travel:

"Every penny of profit earned by Charitable Travel, everything we do and everything we offer our customers, supports charity fundraising and good causes. We are a registered social enterprise and a financially protected travel agency. Our purpose and mission is to help you with your holiday plans and at the same time support the great work that UK-based charities deliver around the world. When you book a holiday or cruise with us, we sacrifice travel agency commission so you can make a free 5% donation to your choice of registered charity through our dedicated JustGiving website. We pride ourselves in offering travel expertise, a wide choice of holiday options, quality, great value and a unique way of creating travel-for-good for our customers as a true not-for-private-profit social enterprise."

Please donate what you can and help to create lasting change with sand dams:

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£30 could provide a community with drought tolerant seeds, to grow a reliable source of fresh food for their children

£60 could provide a community with a roll of barbed wire, to reinforce and strengthen their sand dam during construction

£120 could provide a community with a wheelbarrow and 10 bags of cement, to help them construct their sand dam

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