Thank You Virtuoso For Supporting Passports With Purpose

Look at the smile on that face. This is the image I’ll be keeping in mind as I process the fact that Passports with Purpose 2009 has been a tremendous success and that because of this effort, some child may one day smile just like this. At a desk, in a school, learning to read and write.

Virtuoso gave us a fantastic start by committing to be our Platinum Sponsor. Virtuoso partners, the Four Seasons Seattle and the Fairmont Olympic supported by donating some excellent prizes. We’re excited to have spear-headed this effort which brought together so many different people from the online and offline travel community and truly humbled by the impact of what this community has done.

Our initial fund-raising goal was $13,000. With the support of some excellent sponsors, led by Virtuoso, and a great community of travel-bloggers, we blew past this goal within our first week. As Pam said in her post on the PwP blog, where do we go from here? We met for coffee to discuss our options. Within minutes, we came to the decision to keep going and double our fund-raising goal so that we could supply the school with fresh water, basic medical care and food.

As of today, we’ve passed $26,000 and donations are still coming in. The prize giveaway is now closed and we’ll be announcing all prize-winners on Jan 5th. If you didn’t get to donate in time to win a prize, you can still support this effort here.

Thank you!

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