Win a trip to India with Intrepid

Raise funds to help street kids in Delhi and win a trip to India

If you’re a member of the Toronto Travel Massive, you could be on your way to India with Intrepid Travel soon! All you need to do is support the fundraising project for Deepalaya through The Intrepid Foundation. Whoever raises the most money between the Toronto Travel Massive meetup on September 29 and October 26, 2011 will win Intrepid’s 15-day Classic Rajasthan trip to India, generously donated by our friends at Intrepid Travel. The winner will be announced at the Toronto Travel Massive meetup on October 27, 2011.

Here’s what you need to know about The Intrepid Foundation, Deepalaya and the contest and how to enter (see below).

Note: Contest open ONLY to members of the Toronto Travel Massive (formerly Toronto Travel Tribe). How do you know if you’re a member? If you’ve been to one of our meetups (between August 2010 and September 2011).

About Deepalaya

It is estimated that Delhi alone has over 100,000 street children. Deepalaya started in 1979 to help these children for whom the street is their place of work and home. The sad reality for most of these children is a life of hard labour and work in environments that no child should be exposed to, such as prostitution and drug trafficking.

Deepalaya social workers counsel these children and place them at the Home for Boys in Deepalaya Gram in a village called Gusbethi, 60 KM from Delhi. Deepalaya has educated more than 44,000 underprivileged children from slums of Delhi and rural areas in Haryana. At present the Home for Boys has 52 children staying there. The school in Gusbethi imparts formal schooling to the boys and children from the surrounding villages of Tayru. The school has over 250 children.

Deepalaya is also involved in a Vocational Centre which provides technical training for the boys and for girls from the surrounding villages of Mewat. They learn skills in tailoring, computer hardware and software, electronics, air conditioning and refrigeration. Construction of a girls’ hostel is nearing completion. The hostel will accommodate 60 girls.

Your support for Deepalaya will help to provide: food and board, health care, meaningful education and vocational training, counselling and career guidance, understanding, friendship, warmth and solace in terms of loneliness for these children.

About The Intrepid Foundation

The Intrepid Foundation provides travellers with an opportunity to give something back to the many wonderful communities Intrepid travels to. By donating to The Intrepid Foundation you can make a difference in local communities – in health care, education, human rights, child welfare and the protection of wildlife and the environment.

The Intrepid Foundation facilitates support for organizations that work to improve health care, education, human rights, child welfare, sustainable development, environmental protection, animal welfare and wildlife protection.

Through fundraising and supporting projects such as Deepalaya, The Intrepid Foundation aims to raise the self reliance and skill base of the communities in which Intrepid travels.

About the contest

Participants can raise funds in any way they desire: by holding bake sales or garage sales, through social media networks, etc. The Intrepid Foundation will be offering an additional prize to the most creative fundraising effort.

For every dollar raised, Intrepid will match the donation. As Intrepid covers all administrative costs for The Foundation, this means that 200% of every donation will go directly to the project

The person who raises the most money within the one month time frame will be awarded a trip to India on Intrepid’s 15-day Classic Rajasthan trip, including flights to and from Delhi. During the tour, you will visit the Deepalaya project in Delhi.

To enter: Create a profile on The Intrepid Foundation – Deepalaya and share it with your friends and supporters, They can donate directly to your profile.

Note: Contest open ONLY to members of the Toronto Travel Massive (formerly Toronto Travel Tribe). How do you know if you’re a member? If you’ve been to one of our meetups (between August 2010 and September 2011).

If you need more information please contact Katy Rockett at katy.rockett@intrepidtravel.com.