Meet the original Charity Travelers in Seoul

27 March 2017. Seoul, South Korea.

After a very long search we have writte occasionally about on this blog, we have finally found a home to live in. It is in Mangwon, an up-and-coming hip neighborhood of Seoul. Our daughter Miru goes to the kindergarden here, which she enjoys very much.

After so many years en route or in temporary arrangements, it feels almost surreal to decorate our own apartment. It's small and dark but that doesn't matter. It's a happy place.

Kamiel plans to take his writing to the next level and to publish on creativechoice.org.
Yeon is teaching English in a neighborhood school and continues working on a picture book.

We want to continue couchsurfing, through the old couchsurfing.org website, but more excitingly through the open source alternative trustroots.org. You can find my profile (kamiel79) on these hospitality sites - I'm looking forward to hosting you, especially when you are a 'charity traveler' and like to do something similar on your journey as we did in 2009-2011.

In solidarity against the horror

Nov 18. Utrecht/Lisbon, Netherlands/Portugal.

Charity Travel feels with the family and friends of all victims of the horrible attacks in Beirut and Paris and everywhere. We stand for global solidarity and are not afraid of Islamic fundamentalism, or in fact any other kind of fundamentalism. The outpour of solidarity in the wake of the Paris attacks stems us cautiously hopeful. We, all humans not poisoned by toxic ideologies, are thrown back on our essence: being kind to each other in our ephemeral moment on earth.