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Our projectsIn the following sites you will find projects of the foundation Trekkinchile. One tree by each tourist
Project start: 2011 Sponsors: Conaf Description: Responsable Companies are helping their customers compensating CO2 footprint caused by tourism. FairChile is supported by the Nationalpark Service CONAF, the university Catolica del Maule and the ministry of the environment. » read more Driving school for children
Project start: september 2011 Sponsors: Police department, Mutual de seguridad Description: The Driving school for children, located on the Foundations property, is used once a week by schools throughout the region. Our brochure is used as a guide for teachers to teach their students about the ways of the road and how to bike safe and responsibly. » read more Traveling accessible for everyone
Project start: may 2011 Sponsors: Conaf, Blindenverband Description: Traveling South America is a big challenge for people with disabilities. We don’t see this getting better anytime in the near future. We are hoping that through our project we can make traveling accessible for everyone. Our project aims to help Chilean tourism companies understand how to improve their infrastructure so they too can make our goal possible. » read more FairChile donate 2000 native trees
Project start: 24.04.2010 Sponsors: members of FairChile Description: FaiChile give credits to schools, foundation y plant nurseries. The finance interest of 19% have to be paid back once a year in form of native trees at a price of $ chil. 175 for trees with a age of 1 year. This plants we donate to public institutions, in order to reforestate Chile with native forest. » read more Geocaching helps the earthquake region
Project start: April 2010 Sponsors: Centro GPS Description: To promote the 7th region Maule after the earthquake, the Foundation TrekkingChile and Centro GPS Garmin hide 16 Geocaches in the provinces Cordillera, Valle Central, Costa Cordillera and Costa. With your attendance you help the victims, use the intact touristic infrastructure and show the world, that Maule is not gone for touristic activities. We need you! » read more Women Aid Program
Project start: 21.3.2010 Sponsors: Claudia Troncoso Description: Women Aid Program - handicraft » read more Earthquake relief II
Project start: 19.03.2010 Sponsors: many sponsors Description: Three weeks after the worse earthquake, the earth is still shaking. The media reports of huge relief projects, but in practical a large number of families was in deed not visited by help organizations. Luckily the earthquake itself, caused only few human victims, but the catastrophe shows itself even more everyday. The infrastructure of whole cities is destroyed. No special goods are missing, it is just missing everything. » read more Clowns are visiting earthquake victims
Project start: 18.3.2010 Sponsors: Clowns on the road Description: Clowns on the Road” is a social project with the target to bring back the SMILE to places where it is most needed. “Laughing is the best medicine” is the slogan of “Clowns on the Road” which brings back joy and humor into everyday life. » read more Start of reconstruction of demaged houses
Project start: 17.3.2010 Sponsors: many donors, especially foundation Georg Kraus Description: The afthershocks are not going to end, neither the donations of our numerous donors , our foundation Trekkingchile and Codeff » read more Education for earthquake victims
Project start: 11.3.2010 Sponsors: Georg Kraus Stiftung, Marketing Coop, FairChile, TrekkingChile Description: Children living in the earthquake region Maule had vacation for the last two month. Just a few days before the school wanted to open their doors again we suffered one of the haviest earthquakes in history. Schools are partly or completly destroyed. Many of them want start soon school saison. Specialests have to exermine the constuctions first. » read more Earthquake Help Chile 2010
Project start: 3.3.2010 Sponsors: Georg Kraus Stiftung, Marketing Coop, FairChile, Codeff, Stiftung TrekkingChile Description: The foundation “Trekkingchile” dealed mostly with environmental projects and eco-tourism. That changed promptly when the earth shake in the morning of the 27th February 2010. The actual situation force us to attend relief projects in favor for the victims of the earthquake. Our environmental budget was rededicated. This decision is supported by our foundation directors and the dispensers are informed about that. » read more driving school for children
Project start: may 2009 Sponsors: police Chile, municipality Talca, Hotel Casa Chueca, foundation Trekkingchile Description: After a construction time of 6 month we are finishing the first chilean driving school for children. Additionally we plantd 60 different species of native trees around the school. For parents or teachers we built a small coffee shop where we are storing the Kettcars during the nights. » read more International school project between Chile and Austria
Project start: june 2009 Sponsors: catolic church, foundation Trekkingchile Description: School children from Chile and Asutria are exchanging information about their live, their sourrounding and their country. They are in contact via internet, sendig paintings and letters. » read more 3000 native trees for reforastation
Project start: 14.05.2009 Sponsors: FairChile Description: At the 14.05.2009 the municipality of Talca and the NGO foundation Trekkingchile signed an agreement on the mains square of the city. During the same event the foundation donated 3000 native trees to the municipality and the forest office CONAF. » read more Naturfriends international
Project start: 18.03.2009 Sponsors: NFI Description: The NGO Naturefriends international signed the partnership with Trekkingchile, the first partnership with a soutamerican NGO in history. » read more Solar pond in the Altiplano
Project start: September 2008 Sponsors: Corfo Innova, La Chakana, Foundation Trekkingchile, vivest, Wikinger Reisen Description: The richness of nothern Chile is not only cupper, but also the hardly used sun force. For financial reasons the constructions of photovoltaics are not accesible for the comon people. At night temperatures falls above the OC. For heating they use in the desert or Altiplano the Tholabush or the quite rare bush Llarreta. Solar ponds produca in a very cheap way hot water for heating and the shower. Bigger settlements can produce with the pond energy. The foundation Trekking Chile is looking for sponsor for the first pond in the northern Altiplano at the alture of 3.500m. » read more Small hydroelectric power plant
Project start: Sponsors: Foundation Trekkingchile, Municipality of Talca, vivest Description: n Chile to built common hydroelectric power plants it is only accessibly to enourmous groups because of the required quantity of water, the gigantic volume of construction and for the political reasons. However, an Austrian patent can produce in a simple and cheap way, electricity where you only need a low hight of fall and a little water volume. These power plants can be used as well in little settlements, and the electricity is not only produced as well the water will be enriched with oxygen. Already 14 families are supplied with the energy. » read more Map Bag
Project start: June 2008 Sponsors: Trekkingchile, Marketing Coop Description: The foundation Trekkingchile uses the european marketing concept “map bag” to support the women union Aurora. This produces hand crafted bags on which different road maps of Chile are shown. » read more Fair Chile
Project start: April 2008 Sponsors: foundation Trekkingchile Description: 1000 km by air plane, 2300 km by car or 5600 km gone by train release approx 200 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – pro person. This greenhouse gas is one of the causes of climatic change. Although these changes have always existed, it has not been happening that fast since two million years. The effects on our planet are threatening and we as responsible people are the only ones who can change something. » read more Construction of seminar building
Project start: Oct.2007 Sponsors: Trekkingchile Description: The TrekkingChile foundation is constructing a building to house seminars and courses in the tourism field, 250 km from Santiago. » read more Marketing Coop
Project start: 2007 Sponsors: Sercotec Description: The TrekkingChile foundation is specially focused on social projects with tourism background. Training of guides, First-Aid-Courses, tourism related English for people working in tourism or building of a museum for native cultures are projects we already accomplished. All of them have one thing in common – they need the right Marketing and promotion. For this very reason we founded a special purpose association “marketing coop”. » read more Museum La Chakana
Project start: März 2008 Sponsors: Wikinger Reisen Description: In many South American countries traditions get lost while the society is modernizing and progressing. The youth of traditional living communities, like indigenous people or shepherds, leave their original home and settle in suburbs of cities. In most cases that means losing contact to their community and additionally not being able to establish contact to the modern community of the city. Leftovers are: left villages, unemployed youth and lost traditions. To counter this problem, the foundation TrekkingChile, together with Wikinger Reisen, is building a “museum-village” in 3,500 m height, just outside Putre. » read more First Aid Outdoor
Project start: December 2007 Sponsors: Sercotec Description: In the very north of Chile our accommodation and native museum “La Chakana” offers First Aid Courses for local mountain and trekking guides. They are supported by the Outdoor-School-South and funded by Sercotec. The course is tailor made for the specialities of the region and the needs of the local guides. » read more Clowns on the Road
Project start: starting may 2008 Sponsors: Trekkingchile Description: “Clowns on the Road” is a social project with the target to bring back the SMILE to places where it is most needed. “Laughing is the best medicine” is the slogan of “Clowns on the Road” which brings back joy and humour into everyday life. » read more history
Project start: 1997 Sponsors: goverment, catolic church, Wikinger Reisen, Codeff Description: As tour operator we have supported various social and ecological projects in Chile for many years thanks to the support of tourists, the chilean goverment and members of the Catholic Church of Austria. » read more |
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