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Be A Responsible Traveller

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who warmly welcomed us in their community.

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GATN ADVENTURES WITH THE YMCA OF KUALA LUMPUR
UNWTO 7th Global Summit on Urban Tourism & 3rd Seoul International Fair and Sustainable Tourism Conference
GATN in Disaster Relief Work
YMCA of Penang : See all of Asia on our island of Penang
Recruit External experts for GATN Project Evaluation

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1 month ago

Temple tour is one of the most interesting activities as we always arranged to international volunteers while they visiting Cambodia. Our purpose is bringing volunteers to connect with Cambodia's richest cultures, histories, civilizations and temples. We are so proud to host Victoria of YMCA Australia. Keep moving to other destination around Cambodia. Let's enjoy with Us - Hem Thel, GATN manager of Cambodia YMCATemple tour is one of the most interesting activities as we always arranged to international volunteers while they visiting Cambodia. Our purpose is want to bring volunteers to connected with Cambodia's richest cultures, histories, civilizations and temples. We are so proud to host Victoria of YMCA Australia. Keep moving to others destination around Cambodia. Let's enjoy with Us. ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

VictoriaYMCA from Australia do community volunteer work in Cambodia 👍👍 They are involved in community children feeding project, visited child care center in a slum area, explored Floating Village etc. Hope to they enjoy their meaningful work.Today, Cambodia YMCA has an very honorable to hosting the group from Australia (Victoria of YMCA). We had been doing any activities as below:
🌱 Community Development Project- Rice Soup Program. We already served the soup program with 72 kids and 15 elderly people in the community.
🌱Community visit-We already explored about situations in local community in Siem Reap. Our aims is to bring international volunteers to connect with local people and authorities.
🌱We brought 9 volunteers to learn about church in Siem Reap and do any activities as pastors requirements.
🌱We had been visiting Siem Reap Child Care Center, which is one of the Cambodia YMCA project that we supporting 25 children. Then, we learn about the center and surrounding slum community.
🌱Lunch in Siem Reap Homestay's lotus farm and enjoy local cooking and desserts (Green Banana, Lotuses fruit).
🌱We explored to Floating Village (Eco-Based Tourism) and observed with local infrastructure and Tonle Sap lake. Thank everyone for being a part of YMCA project. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

GATN Task Force&Mentors Meeting was successfully completed in Metropolitan YMCA of Singapore from 10 to 14 December. This year meeting, participants focused on the analysis of the external evaluation report and discussed deeply how can we develop next phase of GATN. After completed 6 years GATN movement, external evaluation was a good chance to look back on how we worked together with various subjects and what is out a strong and weak point. Base on this it was able to discuss how can we develop our weak point at next phase of GATN. Additionally, Dr. Marc van Loo’s s resort “Loola” case study and Mr.Na Hyo Woo’s alternative tourism social enterprise concept was motivated participants to develop our thinking one more step. Hopefully, GATN movement is grow up together with the various idea and people more and more #GATN #APAY #AlternativeTourism ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

#GATN APAY e-news : GATN ADVENTURES WITH THE YMCA OF KUALA LUMPUR

"The YMCA of Kuala Lumpur’s GATN program began in 2013 and have hosted 13 groups from different local YMCAs in Asia Pacific. The YMCA KL’s GATN Projects essentially focused on the Environment, Culture and Heritage, Adventures and Cultural Immersions and of the Disabled Community"

"The YMCA KL currently has five areas of focus in our GATN Programmes which are spread out into components of Rural Harmony of Homestay in Malaysia, Environment Immersion & Advocacy, Indigenous Immersion of Carey Island, Borneo Adventures & Cultural Immersion, Living through the History of Malaya & Journey to the Silent World" ... See MoreSee Less

GATN ADVENTURES WITH THE YMCA OF KUALA LUMPUR – Global Alternative Tourism Network

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GATN ADVENTURES WITH THE YMCA OF KUALA LUMPUR By Global Alternative Tourism Netwok Adventures with the YMCA of Kuala Lumpur’s GATN are not just fun ...

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3 months ago

Cambodia YMCA is very honored to welcome Danish's volunteers to work with our program for more than a week. We believe that after mission complete one community will improve, our volunteers will learn about cultural, people lifestyle and will get a wonderful experience with Cambodia's people. Through those activities, We will build local community stronger through alternative tourism program. Thanks, everyone for being a part of our program. - Hem Thel, Cambodia YMCA #GATN #APAY #AlternativeTourismCambodia YMCA are very honored to welcome Danish's volunteers to working with our program for more than a week. We believe that after mission complete one community will improve, our volunteers will learn about cultural, people lifestyle and will get wonderful experience with Cambodia's people. Through those activities We will build local community more stronger through alternative tourism program. Thanks everyone for being a part of our program. ... See MoreSee Less

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3 months ago

GATN session in 2018 APAY Advanced Studies program. With 7 Countries YMCA secretaries, we shared and interact about alternative tourism concept and what is YMCA way of traveling. #GATN #APAY #AlternativeTourism ... See MoreSee Less

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5 months 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

UNWTO 7th Global Summit on Urban Tourism & 3rd Seoul International Fair and Sustainable Tourism Conference – Global Alternative Tourism Network

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UNWTO 7th Global Summit on Urban Tourism & 3rd Seoul International Fair and Sustainable Tourism Conference By Global Alternative Tourism Netwok The Wo...

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5 months 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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6 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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Global Alternative Tourism Network shared Dorothy Ong's post.

6 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
#GATN #APAY #YMCAKEDAH ... See MoreSee Less

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