Social Solutions

11 years ago we built a school in this Amazon community where our travel partners send groups to experience home-stays. Over the years we have continued to support the school's needs, most recently with the installation of a new roof. Read More ›

Bal Prakash is a program that helps at-risk children in the midst of the Thar Desert (Ajmer, India) regain their skills in community agricultural practices and food security. This centre is aimed at providing the children with an education, and the skills needed to help them develop into self-sufficient adults that aims to conserve the... Read More ›

This project was in partnership with an institutional donor. The overall initiative, once completed, will directly benefit 46,431 children between the age of 0-5 years and 59,478 children between the ages of 15- 24 years. Read More ›

Located in the midst of the world’s biggest shantytown, on the high slopes surrounding Rio de Janeiro is a community-run centre where over 50 children are provided with educational activities, nutritious meals and health care. Read More ›

Located in the midst of one of Buenos Aires' most famous tourist areas is La Boca, a neighborhood that suffers from poverty and injustices that require intervention from a community action and outreach centre to serve its members by providing a warm meal every day, and opportunities to learn skills and join cooperative businesses. Read More ›

This project, in Playa Matapalo, Costa Rica, supported a recycling program and an environmental education course at a technical high school in the community. This micro-enterprise program enables disadvantaged youth to earn an income through the newly established recycling initiative. Read More ›

Once considered the heart of the Inca Empire, Cuzco is now a tourism Mecca where you will see children either working or begging on the streets. We purchased a permanent home that gives these children the opportunity to learn valuable skills, break the cycle of poverty and create a brighter future and now with STA... Read More ›

Cataracts account for 74% of Banteay Meanchey's preventable blindness and current estimates suggest that backlog of cataract cases in Cambodia exceeds 80,000 people with a further 19,000 developing cataracts each year. The G Adventures 20/20 Vision Project is expected to screen and treat over 2000 people annually through screening camps and outpatient services, 1000 people... Read More ›

The Hope Africa Children's Day School aims to provide children, many of whom are orphaned or unable to afford tuition, with the opportunity to begin their education, and become involved in organized activities during their formative years. Read More ›

This cross-cultural experience enables travellers to take part in the daily lives of the villagers, and gain a deeper understanding of life in rural Kenya while providing economic benefit to over 20 families. Read More ›

This centre provides many abused, abandoned, poor and sick children with the basic necessities of life, as well as creating a caring environment to help them reach their full potential. Read More ›

Planeterra is supporting long-lasting sustainable, community education on the periphery of one of Egypt’s top tourism destinations. Your donation will support the establishment of a new community library and youth programs in the village of El Tod, just outside of the center of Luxor, Egypt.  Read More ›

The Mulberry Learning Centre provides access to education for over 90 Burmese migrant children, ages 2-12. Read More ›

Give a child who once lived and worked on the streets of Delhi the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty. Your support will provide scholarships with vocational training in trade schools, universities and jobs placements based on the area each child’s individual interest. Read More ›

The Mobile Library in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua serves as a lending library and community center, offering text books for students, internet access and mentoring for those looking to start lending libraries in other small communities. Read More ›

Planeterra is working with a village on Ometepe Island of indigenous Nicaraguans who currently have no running water in their homes. They have to collect water from the lake using a horse and jerry can solution. There are at least 900 people without water and with a system that was half-built but never completed -... Read More ›

Operation Safe Drinking Water identifies indigenous villages in Bocas del Toro without access to safe drinking water, and installs systems that provide clean water at central schools to improve the health of whole communities. Read More ›

Developed out of worldwide concern for the polar bears population, this scientific research project was developed to identify the effects of exposure to pollutants and climate change on the health of polar bears in the Arctic. Read More ›

Through this initiative, children in the poverty-stricken Red Hill Township are able to attend school 5 days a week and are provided with two meals each day and educational activities. Read More ›

This science-based conservation program protects female sea turtles, nests and hatchings against poachers and predators by protecting them in a turtle hatchery before releasing them into the ocean. Help us be a leader in protecting sea turtles in Costa Rica. Read More ›

Planeterra is supporting a maternal health in Sierra Leone.  Read More ›

STA Travel and Planeterra are raising funds to build a Pediatric Ward at the Kikuyu Hospital in Kenya. This new facility will accommodate 25 patients and will be designed to meet the specific needs of young patients and their families. Read More ›

STA Travel committed to fundraising $25,000 to install ten rainwater catchment tanks in indigenous villages in Panama and purchase a customized boat to provide the area's first ambulance service for indigenous communities. They reached their goal in just seven short months! Read More ›

Project Goal Reached! Providing Thai communities in Tsunami-affected areas in Southern Thailand the opportunity to build and develop a community tourism training centre for homestay and ecotourism training programs, children's environmental education, women's handicraft development, and environmental conservation programs. Read More ›

Tibet has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world. Each year we sponsor a microsurgical eye camp in a rural region of Tibet and have helped restore sight to hundreds of people with a simple 15-minute cataract surgery. Read More ›