When two of my friends returned from India , they
said ‘Julian, it was beautiful but the NGO we visited was so disorganized and
we had a bad experience’. That got me thinking overtime as I had planned on
good quality time with an animal NGO. Immediately sat and searched socially responsible tourism in India.
All the sites offered the moon, but there was one run by a premium Indian
travel operator, which caught my eye. The corporate social responsibility tour they
promised looked authentic. I ran a check and found that they were associated
with various grass root level NGOs across tourist destinations in India through
their very own Foundation named
Shaping Lives.
This socially responsible tour in India gave me options of
not just animal care in Jaipur and Agra but miscellaneous other options. The
travel website of Le Passage to India eventually also helped me to find a local
agent in my city and would you believe it, the NGO location, time and contacts
were inbuilt into my itinerary before I flew in for the holiday. Needless to
say, it was a marvelous experience and the time spent with the animal NGO was
the icing to the cake. Got to work with canines and birds … esp camels. I am ecstatic
and going back for more. That is the essence of good
socially responsible tourism in India and I
have become its marketing agent within my friends circle, I loved it so much.
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