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2 weeks ago

#GATN APAY E-news : UNWTO 7th Global Summit on Urban Tourism & 3rd Seoul International Fair and Sustainable Tourism Conference

"Over tourism to Fair tourism : Tourism for Life, Sustainable City... Hundreds of high-level representatives from National Tourism Administrations, city authorities and related tourism stakeholders, and offered a venue to share policy strategies and action plans to handle overtourism and to promote harmonious relationships between all stakeholders / co-creators of the tourist experiences, including travelers, host communities, tour operators.."

"Impact of the Networking... Participating in such high-level meetings and events has provided tremendous opportunities for APAY to network as well as to promote the work of GATN" ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

#GATN APAY E-news: GATN in Disaster Relief Work - Pangasinan YMCA

'G'ood 'A'ction 'T'owards 'N'atural Calamities – our immediate response.

"Dagupan City where YMCA of Pangasinan is situated was hit by floods two times — in July and August. The YMCA of Pangasinan strengthened its collaboration, as a member of the Federation of YMCAs in the Philippines, and also thru the Global Alternative Tourism Network (GATN), for immediate responses and actions towards disasters and natural calamities." ... See MoreSee Less

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GATN in Disaster Relief Work By Global Alternative Tourism Netwok GATN in Disaster Relief Work – Disaster Relief and Management Program(DRMP) of Pan...

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2 months ago

What can we learn from Farm working?? Not only trying to experience physical pain. Taichung youth learning how much sweat is needed to get rice. They are experiencing a farmer's life and rural life from GATN program. #GATN #Alternativetourism #APAYToday, Taichung's volunteers visited Kompong Thom Province in north west Cambodia. What alternative tourism program aims is bringing volunteers to connected with farmers or local people. We have honored to planting rice with them. Currently It’s rainy season at the moment, and everyone is busy out planting rice. Everywhere we went, there were seed beds, seedlings for transplanting, and paddy fields already filled. Depending on the variety of seed and the way it’s planted, the harvest will take 2 to 4 months to come.

And whilst they wait for the harvest from August to November, there is often not enough rice left to eat . So our first port of call were a community rice bank, a bank for lending rice as opposed to money. What the community members do is divide up the rice in the bank around this time of year, each family getting around 100 kg each. This will last them about 1 month out the 3 months that make up the hunger season. The other months they will still be short of rice, but they can do manual labour to help earn money to bridge the gap. Then in November, when the harvest comes in, they pay back the rice they owed to the bank together with around 10%

Alternatively, some farmers are starting to use improved planting techniques to harvest better yields. So often it is assumed that larger harvests come with using improved seeds or more fertiliser, inputs that poorer farmers cannot afford. What we saw instead were farmers planting their seed beds more carefully. Firstly they would space out the rice seeds in the seeding beds instead of scattering them freely. The resultant seedlings are then transplanted around a month later into a paddy field where the earth has been completely flattened. This is instead of the traditional way where the field is churned up and left undulating. In the new way, seedlings are then placed in lines (to help weeding) instead of wherever the planter decides. Finally only 1 or 2 stalks are put into the ground as opposed to a clump of 10.

Using these simple techniques, farmers are talking of double, triple, even quadruple yields compared to using traditional ways: nothing like a technique that is costs nothing to make such a difference to people’s lives.

Writing about rice has little to do with running, as this blog is normally about. However the reason I’m putting it down is that athletes are often very careful about their food. And we just wanted to stop to realise what a luxury it is to be able to pick and choose what food we want. And how fortunate We are to have enough food to eat all year round. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

GATN is all about an experience the different kind of tourism, a life-changing program. Is a two-way traffic, you give and you receive, you may not satisfy in the first two days as is a totally different world where you came from, but you will fall in love when you started to serve. The response from the community touched you, their smile, their appreciation, their live made you hard to say GOODBYE...... These memories will always in your heart as it came from your heart....A heart of LOVE - Dorothy Ong, GATN manager
#GATN #APAY #YMCAKEDAHGATN is all about experience the defferent kind of tourism, a life changing program. Is a two way traffic, you give and you recieve, you may not satisfy in the first two days as is totally different world where you came from, but you will fall in love when you started to serve. The respond from the community touched you, their smile, their appreciation, their live made you hard to say GOOD BYE......
These memories will always in your heart as it came from your heart....A heart of LOVE
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