Emergency Tour Guide Funding
Please help if you can. The 2nd wave of Covid-19 is putting even more colleagues into serious problems to keep food on the family table. Share this campaign with anyone who still has an income.
The whole world is struggling. While some tour guides do have employment insurance and access to stimulus packages, many others are independent contractors with no access to government help. And no Plan B.
By now, tour guides have lost over a year’s salary even though the year has not come to an end yet. Winter is coming and the season, hopefully, starts in March 2021. Tour directors are finding it difficult to feed their children and themselves. Please donate if you are able to.
Adopt an Amazing Tour Guide Today
Do you have a specific tour guide in mind that you’d like to help? A colleague, a friend, an amazing guide? You can help that person directly.
Email our non-profit team member specialist, Gina Pillsbury – Gina@eastguideswest.com – with any suggestions / instructions for where your donation can make the greatest impact.
We are currently reaching out to our tour guide community around the world to see which guides are unable to pay even for basic living. We will allocate donations based on those immediate, emergency needs.
Adopt an Amazing Tour Guide
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Apply For Help
Are you a tour guide needing assistance immediately to buy basic necessities? Get in touch today.
Download our PDF tour guide crisis application form. Send back with a photo to Gina@eastguideswest.com. Do please share your story with us.
Share Your Story
Meet Guide Yohanes “John” from Indonesia who needs your help today. We’re racing to send 250 to his family in the Flores and Komodo islands. Here is his story that seriously touches our ♥️:
Guide Yohanes “John” from Indonesia who needs help today! …
“Guiding in Flores and Komodo islands is only in the months of May, June, July, August and September. These are the only times we work as many tourists come…September last year was the last time I worked and have since made no income..Normally, each year we survive on tourism and could feed the family but with current global crisis we really just can’t… In my household, I am the only man and the only one that works to feed the family of six… my family goes hungry with only a meal per day… we’re running out of rice…
If we still get no assistance hunger would be much more dangerous and life-threatening then COVID-19 itself. So, on behalf of my starving family, from the very bottom of my heart, I am asking for your immediate help very kindly and respectfully to keep us alive. I can’t stand seeing my three little girls crying… It’s just so sad. Your kindness and generosity would forever be in our heart and we would forever be grateful for it.”
Please consider donating just €19 in the link above to help out! That’s a way to make COV19 a positive #.
Transparency and Trust
Our promise is to keep you updated on the progress of EastguidesWest’s relief fund. We’ll post how much has been raised, exactly where the crowdfunding has gone, and how that has made a life-changing impact.
Our goal is to save, support and adopt tour guides, tour directors, and tour managers around the world in this difficult time.
When will tourism bounce back?
The million dollar question. Nobody knows. What we DO know is that this situation is NOT permanent. Our tour operator network tells us that guests are postponing tours, NOT cancelling.
So let’s make sure that amazing tour guides are still here when tourism comes back. They are too valuable to lose to other industries in this crisis.
Please help if you can. And please share this campaign.
While there are NO jobs, please join us in donating to protect our valuable community of guides.
Thank you on behalf of all tour guides around the world.
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