What Backyard Tour is all about?
Backyard Tour is a new social enterprise that connects locals in Sarawak with travelers to empower them financially through community-based trips.
We makes it possible for locals from places of high tourism potential to explore the opportunity of community-based trips in their own backyards. We collaborate with the locals so that they are able to operate their own tour-guiding services and generate income.
Through this venture, we hope to:
- Break rural Sarawak's poverty cycle
- Reduce rural to urban migration
- Reduce unemployment & alcoholism
- Preserve culture & tradition that is dying out
How Backyard Tour operates?
We work closely with the locals through the following steps:
Why do we start Backyard Tour in the first place?
We started this venture in February 2015 with a realization that the locals in Sarawak have valuable assets on natural beauty as they live in the Borneo forest rich in flora and fauna, along with their diversified culture and tradition.
We have experienced meaningful trips on our journey identifying these places and working closely with the locals. We hope you could experience it on your own as well.
What does Backyard Tour need?
All this while, Backyard Tour has worked with limited resources. Helps from friends and family members made it possible for us to continue connecting the locals with travelers.
However, in order for Backyard Tour to discover new places, make travelers feel more comfortable to travel with us and to help locals to generate more income, we need help in purchasing a vehicle and a camera.
Make your donation no matter what amount you give, be part of the movement to change the community, one trip at a time.
Backyard Tour focus especially on youths; they are to be trained as Backyard Tour Guides.
How will Backyard Tour reward you?
A big 'thank you' for every dollar you give. We believe even a $5 can make a difference. However, we can only reward you more with a minimum $30. We will reward you with a postcard of our beautiful operating sites and also accessories made by the locals as follows.
Postcards - each one will be written by our locals personally for you
Earrings made by the locals - each package has different design
Bracelet - made by the locals with whom we collaborated
With a minimum of $1000 donation, we will provide you free transportation when you book a trip package with us along with a package of either necklace and postcard or bracelet, earrings and postcard!
On top of all, with a minimum of $2000 donation, we will provide you free day trip plus the package mentioned above.
Find out more on:-
Website: www.thebackyardtourguide.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/thebackyardtourguide
Twitter: twitter.com/TheBackyardTour
Instagram: www.instagram.com/backyard_tour
