Social Commitment
We have established two main action plans under our Social Commitment strategy:
Our primary focus here is partnering with selected Andean communities by integrating them into our activities and designing programs that help promote their development, while ensuring total respect and fair trade and payment to them.
2 To regularly select and actively monitor different existing initiatives and/or design projects aimed to benefit CHILDREN and WOMEN, which we consider to be the two most socially disadvantaged groups in Peru.
Our children’s focus is to improve their wellbeing, their access to opportunities and, above all, their education. Women’s help is directed towards creating work opportunities for them, increasing their independence and helping them earn their own income to contribute to the domestic economies.
ozzie travel chooses to work with the active workforce available in the communities in which it operates. This includes the training and recruitment of men and women at least 18 years old. These communities are our primary source of recruitment of porters, employed exclusively along the Inca Trail and its variants, and also of wranglers, whose work (and that of the pack a ey own and manage) is necessary for all trekking routes other than the Inca Trail. A community-trained member working for ozzie travel earns an average of 8 times more than the normal agricultural wage.
ozzie travel participates with several Andean communities in the design of genuine “community experiences” offered to our guests. These are designed together and operated by the community itself and include sharing with them, having lunch, workshops on textiles, visiting interpretation centers and specific activities for which each community is responsible (potato harvesting, textile dying and weaving, alpaca breeding, and other activities).
ozzie travel regularly supports and donates school materials and clothes to the communities with which we work.
ozzie travel regularly supports NGOs and projects linked to causes that we consider key in Peru. We focus on select initiatives, making sure they are managed in an ethical way and directly monitoring the allocation of donations and funds. Please visit our Social Projects section to learn more.
Whenever a client chooses to help any project, organization, orphanage or other cause, whether through economic or material donations, will match our client’s support, partially if not totally, thus also getting involved in our clients’ initiatives.
Renowned NGOs and Foundations choose Peru as a destination to operate charity challenges for fundraising projects. ozzie travel supports these institutions by applying our “at cost” policy: we design and quote trips to support their programs, just adding a small administration fee, so that the trip is almost operated at cost and the rest fully benefits their cause. Organizations we have worked with include Kids with Cancer and Save the Children.
ozzie travel invites all of its clients to support our neighboring communities through the donation of clothes and other materials that are of no further use to them. We gather all this material and organize donations to communities regularly. Alternatively, the donations can be organized to be a part of the activities in a program, so that our clients can live this social-aid experience for themselves.
