Come with Us to Africa
Traveling to Africa can be a once in a lifetime opportunity. CPAR’s African Village Tour will take you on an unforgettable journey to a CPAR program country – giving you an experience that is not your typical adventure.
What is the CPAR African Village Tour?
CPAR’s African Village Tour is a great opportunity to experience development on a grassroots level.
The Tour takes you beyond the cities and the regular tourist destinations and into the actual rural villages where CPAR’s work takes place. You’ll be welcomed into villages and be able to talk with individual farmers and their families. You’ll travel with CPAR staff who develop our programs and meet the community leaders and committees that we partner with. You’ll experience life in rural Africa and learn about the challenges and the change CPAR is helping community members to achieve.
What Will You Experience?
On the African Village Tour you will visit and learn about CPAR programs that build healthy communities from the people actually doing and participating in the work.
The issues that will be explored include:
- Root causes of poverty in rural Africa
- Water, sanitation and hygiene
- Maternal and child health
- HIV&AIDS advocacy and support
- Nutrition and food security issues
- Secure livelihoods
- Environmental sustainability
- Importance of partnerships in development
During the two-week Tour, your days will be spent traveling down dusty roads to witness community development. You will visit villages and farms, water points and health clinics, schools and tree nurseries, and see grassroots change first-hand.
At night you’ll have a chance to relax at your lodge and reflect on the events of the day with your travelling companions and Tour leader. In some of our program countries, at the end of the tour, you’ll also go on safari to see some of the area’s natural wonders and enjoy some of the world's most amazing wildlife.
Here’s what past participants have said:
"If you are interested in being invited into an African farmer's house, in sitting down to a meal with women living with HIV, if you want to be incredibly moved and impressed by how these people face hardships in their lives, go on a CPAR Tour."
- Sarah Swan, Tanzania 2008 participant
"This Tour will change the way you think about African farmers, their lifestyles, and the enormous problems they confront with courage and determination."
- Dr. Margrit Eichler, Tanzania 2008 participant
Read the stories written by previous Village Tour participants.
Come with us to Africa this year!
2011 African Tour Destination: Tanzania
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For more information contact us at
africatour@cpar.ca or 1-800-263-2727 ext 28.