Posts by Lynnea
Happy World Elephant Day!
Yes, Happy World Elephant Day! World Elephant Day is an international annual event on August 12, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants. The video snippet above showcases a herd of sacred elephants we spotted on our safari day at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve June 3, 2015. Gandhi Satyagraha Tour of South Africa 2015 Another fabulous video taken from Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve, South Africa: Satyagraha Tour of SA 2014 I spot another elephant with a “Tower of Giraffes” further behind the giraffes in the bush. The elephant spots me with my camera, and is as curious with...
Read MoreArun Gandhi Pietermartizburg Railway Station Address June 7, 2015
Another spot on address by Arun Gandhi in Piertermaritzburg during the Satyagraha Tour of South Africa. He talks about the purpose of the Gandhi Legacy Tour in South Africa. He continues on with: “The thing that touches me most about my grandfather, is the statement that he made just a month or so before his assassination, when a journalist asked him, what do you think is going to happen after your passing to your philosophy? And he made a very prophetic remark when he said, “the people will follow me in life, worship me in death, but not make my cause their cause.” That unfortunately, is the tragedy with not just my grandfather, but for all the...
Read MoreMeet Miss Fikile Lucia Ngcobo
The Valley Trust A CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION Valley of the Thousand Hills near Durban South Africa A visit with the NGO, The Valley Trust (“TVT”) – A Center for Health Promotion – in the Valley of the Thousand Hills near Durban will highlight Day 6 of the Satyagraha Tour of South Africa. Celebrating over 60 years of service in rural and peri-rural communities similar to the Valley, TVT has been assisting communities to take charge of their development and realize their potential by building educational capacity to secure employment, create financial stability, and develop sustainable healthy and holistic communities. In anticipation of the Tour and the...
Read MoreGLT Continues to Support World Responsible Tourism
Third Consecutive Year!
World Responsible Tourism, in association with the UN’s World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), is a universal movement, helping to build a solid, sustainable future for responsible, philanthropic and eco travel and tourism. Since its introduction seven years ago, World Responsible Tourism has captured the hearts and minds of responsible and philanthropic travel facilitators everywhere. Gandhi Legacy Tour (GLT) has received permission to proudly display the World Responsible Tourism emblem to emphasize commitment to “responsible travel” for a third consecutive year 2015. Responsible and philanthropic travel honors sustainable projects across the planet, underscoring a...
Read MoreThe Waterman of India
A tip of the hat goes to Tushar Gandhi for introducing us to this amazing innovator Rajendra Singh … We have just added his NGO “Tarun Gharat Sangh” as a stop on the Gandhi Legacy Tour of India itinerary. Rajendra Singh is a man on a mission – he wants to stop a Third World War from breaking out because of water shortage.Singh, known as the “waterman of India”, is a celebrated water reclaimationist from the Alwar district of Rajasthan India. Singh won the Stockholm Water Prize, an award known as “the Nobel Prize for water”, in 2015. The prize honors individuals, organizations and institutions whose work contributes to the conservation and protection of...
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