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Schoolies to be unleashed in Thailand
Unleashed Travel has launched more "socially responsible" options for school leavers who wish to combine their "schoolies week" with a less traditional holiday: community volunteering in Asia.
Jot Lynas, CEO of Unleashed Travel, said the company is seeing increasing demand among school leavers for greater cultural experiences.
"Volunteering is growing in popularity. Our existing Project Unleashed programme, which manages the donation of books and stationery to Fijian children, has already seen considerable involvement among our travellers."
Unleashed Travel’s new volunteering travel packages to Thailand – Community Volunteering and Elephant Conservation Volunteering – will kick off in November 2013, and are on sale now.
In 2013, Community Volunteering will be dedicated to building a home for refugee children in Sangklaburi, a village located near the Thai-Myanmar border.
Elephant Conservation Volunteering will take travellers to Tha Thum ("District of Elephants") in far-north Surin.
Volunteers will assist with maintaining and planting crops, which provide the elephants with a vital source of food, and washing the elephants at a local river.
Jot says, "Our volunteering packages have been designed to cater for school leavers who wish to contribute to overseas communities while experiencing authentic day-to-day living in a variety of villages."
Each year Unleashed Travel takes more than 3000 students overseas to locations in Fiji, Bali and Vanuatu.
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