Tours – Community Service

This is one of our more specialist tours – we operate trips to Borneo that have a community work component. We believe that one very important aspect of tourism is giving back to the community; and we strive to incorporate a community work component in most tours we organise. We have planned exclusively community-based tours before; and we will continue doing so in response to, hopefully, increasing demand.

Who might be interested in this?

School Groups

School groups or clubs that would like to conduct a community service project in Borneo, while at the same time having a holiday, of sorts, can contact us – we have contacts in many localities that are conducive to group work. We have placed groups in Long Pasia, Togudon (Tambunan), Kota Marudu and Papar, building houses, building steps on hills for kindergartens, participating and assisting in local celebrations, and the like

Tourists Wanting a Homestay Experience

For foreign tourists who would like more than just a homestay experience, we can ring up our many localities and arrange participation in a community project. Past tourists have lived in a village in Togudon, enjoying the hospitality of the local villagers while helping to repaint the local kindergarten; and another group revelled by night in the Long Pasia Christmas countdown, while slogging to assist the community’s Christmas preparations in the daytime.

Partner Organisations

We work closely with a few partner organisations in Sabah and Sarawak that allow us quick access to community projects:

Habitats for Humanity

This organisation builds houses for villagers who cannot afford it, in and around KK – all sites are a maximum of an hour’s drive, to prevent overloading of village resources on hospitality towards volunteer builders. They primarily work on buiding sites on weekends, but have been known to arrange for weekday trips for interested groups.

These sort of projects require minimal skill – anyone can build and paint a house, all the harder jobs are reserved for the specialist engineers and architects who lead the organisation.