Newstart

Newstart NewStart is a travel agency that gives backpackers fulfilling, meaningful and responsible travels. Responsible volunteering ? So what is our main goal?

Our travel agency is in place to work towards ‘responsible volunteering’, this is a phrase heard more and more these days as people begin to realize the importance of it. To make sure our volunteers are always educated and have a good understanding of why they are here, what they are here to do, and how their help is important. Unfortunately, volunteer travel has grown and become a profitable mar

ket for many companies. Many companies are sending out volunteers without doing any background checks or assuring that they are suitable for the role they intend to take on. In many cases this can do far more harm than good. To do so, we must focus on getting more travel agencies to take responsibility when it comes to providing volunteers to third world countries. Industry growing why ? The current growth of the orphanage industry is startling; in Cambodia alone it is thought that 3 out of every 4 children in an orphanage has one or more living parents. Unfortunately Cambodia is just one example out of many. Instead of being a safe haven for children, orphanages are becoming a business and a money making scheme. Our priority is getting to the core of this issue, beginning with the families that are giving up their children to this industry. We focus on working towards developing sustainable communities by helping create jobs so local individuals can earn salaries to support their families. Working alongside the locals we are able to listen to their wants and needs. By doing this we feel we can really direct our help to the right places and instead of enforcing our ideas on the communities we can provide the support to turn their own ideas into a reality. There is no overnight solution but piece by piece your help makes a world of difference to the communities and families we work with. Our first priority is 100 % safety of the children we help ! Our number one priority is the safety of the children. We work closely with each organization by educating them on the importance of protecting children and helping them to fully enforce the policies that secure the safety of every child. We work directly on the ground with each organization, we are not a third party company, this means we can make sure your money goes into the projects where it is needed most and does not get lost in the admin costs of an international company.

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The British David Fletcher, sentenced to 10 years in prison for the r**e of a 16-year-old girl, had his appeal declared ...
21/05/2014

The British David Fletcher, sentenced to 10 years in prison for the r**e of a 16-year-old girl, had his appeal declared inadmissible by the Appeal Court last Friday, since it was filed after the time limit.
Fletcher, who fled to Thailand in 2010 and was sentenced in his absence, was arrested by Thai police and extradited to Cambodia last year, where he now is serving his sentence.
Read the case's history: http://aplecambodia.org/media-center/field-updates/2003/173-02-october-victim-finds-justice-after-years-of-waiting.html

In the afternoon of the 1 st of October, 67-year old Briton David John Fletcher has been extradited from Thailand to Cambodia.

Offenders who travel globally to sexually abuse children and call it sex-tourism - eTurboNews.com. Read the whole story ...
18/05/2014

Offenders who travel globally to sexually abuse children and call it sex-tourism - eTurboNews.com. Read the whole story here !

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See how you and a friend can win a trip with Newstart to Cambodia. Its all inclusive and we guarantee that your stay wil...
11/05/2014

See how you and a friend can win a trip with Newstart to Cambodia. Its all inclusive and we guarantee that your stay will be an unforgettable adventure =)



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Newstart will in a couple of weeks go into training by "Childsafe" to be certified as a child safe travel agency. We hop...
10/05/2014

Newstart will in a couple of weeks go into training by "Childsafe" to be certified as a child safe travel agency. We hope more agencies will follow and do the same :)

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Today we had a lot of activity on our page. We are so happy to see that people are opening their eyes for respo...
08/05/2014

Today we had a lot of activity on our page. We are so happy to see that people are opening their eyes for responsible volunteering and responsible tourism. Please help us share this page so we can reach 1000 likes today :)

Check out PangeaTrails new website, they do great work in South Africa. Their trips will give you an experience for life...
07/05/2014

Check out PangeaTrails new website, they do great work in South Africa. Their trips will give you an experience for life. If you are planning to travel to South Africa this is definitely worth a look :)

Pangea Trails offers tours, language courses and volunteering in aSouth Africa for backpackers and budget travellers.

Hi everybody, The last year we have been working on a new concept called "repsonible volunteering" our travel agency web...
06/05/2014

Hi everybody, The last year we have been working on a new concept called "repsonible volunteering" our travel agency website is now ready to be launched. I have been travelling a lot the last 6 years, and learned from my mistakes. now i need help from you guys to share my website and spread this word. This means so much to me and the Newstart team. I hope you all will help me sharing my website. If you share it on facebook you can also win a trip for 2 to cambodia as a prize Please take your time to see it and share it


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ConCERT – "Connecting Communities, Environment & Responsible Tourism" - is a not-for-profit social enterprise based in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

We just started an awareness presentation for free at otres 1. We do presentations everyday at 7.30pm . Was amazing to s...
28/03/2014

We just started an awareness presentation for free at otres 1. We do presentations everyday at 7.30pm . Was amazing to see that so many came over for the presentation on our first day.

We discuss these topics:

1. voluntourism
2. orphanage tourism
3. Western pedophiles in cambodia
4. Child safety

A big thank you to Otres lodge and all the staff that let us use their facilities to raise more awareness around these problems.

Newstart wants to thank everybody who helped out handling out flyers for M'Lop Tapang, ChildSafe Network and Action pou...
18/03/2014

Newstart wants to thank everybody who helped out handling out flyers for M'Lop Tapang, ChildSafe Network and Action pour les enfants. Promoting awareness for these organizations is a pleasure. We will keep focusing on educating volunteers about orphanage tourism, and the damage it does to the children in Cambodia. We will in the next couple of days launch our new website, we`re looking forward to fight even harder for responsible volunteering.

Best regards
Newstart team

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Krong Preah Sihanouk
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