Big Giving - From Books to Bricks

A History of Big Giving

Since 2004 i-to-i Meaningful Travel has been helping our projects with items to help them do the great work they're already doing. For the past 6 years this has been through annual funding to provide tangible items that our projects tell us they need. Since July 2010 we have combined the larger donations we already give with more regular funding for our projects that need smaller items; look out for the Big Giving logo for our range of projects that benefit from the Big Giving funds!

See what i-to-i have contributed in: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011

2011

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2010

  • Purchased a shipping container and the funds to renovate it into a classroom at our Paint a brighter life for the disadvantaged children of Cape Town, South Africa project
  • Funded the building of a new new play room and counselling room at our Build to rebuild the lives of Costa Rican children project
  • Built brand new classrooms at our disadvantaged communities project in Costa Rica
  • Sent through over US$12,000 of regular funding to projects in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Kenya and South Africa. Here are some examples of what we’ve done:
  • We’ve bought a whole classroom of chairs and tables in Cambodia and Kenya
  • Kept the animals at our animal and park maintenance project in Ecuador with regular vitamin supplements
  • Purchased tools, building supplies and countless bags of cement for our building projects in Kenya and Costa Rica
  • Kitted out school kids with new uniforms in Goa, India
  • Improved the books and resources for our projects in Cambodia, India and Kenya
  • Purchased turtle tags and applicators at our turtle projects in Costa Rica, plus material to improve the permanent structures there
  • Bought wetsuits and surfboards for our project in South Africa

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2009

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2008

  • Renovated 4 classrooms, 2 new computers and bought equipment for football and hockey at one of our projects in Ghana
  • Provided furniture for the newly built education centre through our Building with underprivileged communities in Kenya project
  • Supplied a specialised sewing machine for vocational training at our Community work with special needs children in Jaipur, India project
  • Supplied 25 tables and chairs for one of our Work with orphans in Cambodia centres
  • Rebuilding bathrooms damaged by fire at one of our orphanages in Malaysia
  • Bought a new cooker for one of our Community work with children in San Ramon, Costa Rica projects
  • Purchased a wooden door and 2 iron protectors for windows for one of our Community work with orphans and underprivileged children in Lima, Peru projects

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2007

  • Bought our Animal rehabilitation work in Posadas, Argentina project materials to improve the size of cages helping to give a higher quality of life to the animals at this under-resourced centre
  • Purchased new bedding, toys, books and nappies for one of our Community work with children around Xi'an, China projects
  • Provided materials for a new turtle beach shelter at one of our Sea turtle conservation on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica projects
  • Bought 3 new cribs and mattresses for our Community work with children in Honduras project
  • Painted, re-floored and damp-proofed one of our Community work with children in Darjeeling, India projects
  • Bought 3 bunk beds and 6 mattresses at one of our Teach English in Mombasa, Kenya projects
  • Provided the funds for a hybrid cow and shed accommodation at one of our Community work with children in Mombasa, Kenya projects
  • Bought a power amplifier and set of speakers for one of our projects in Kuala Lumpur
  • Purchased 4 bunk beds, 8 mattresses and blankets for one of our Community work with orphans and underprivileged children in Lima, Peru projects
  • Provided new garage doors for our Community work with orphans near Cape Town project in South Africa
  • Bought children's books and games for our Help children to read near Cape Town, South Africa project
  • Donated funds for beds, mattresses, mosquito nets and blankets at our Community work with hill tribe children in Northern Thailand project

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2006

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2005

Following the tsunami at the end of 2004 we helped our projects heavily hit in Sri Lanka to get back on their feet

  • Paid for the materials and building of new premises for one of our Community work in coastal Sri Lanka projects
  • Renovated one of our Community work with children in Sri Lanka projects to improve sanitation and remedy the health and safety hazards in the house at. The funding allowed them to add four bathrooms, four toilets, and a kitchenette.
  • Replaced 2 tanks, fencing and a water pump at our Sea turtle conservation in Sri Lanka project so that volunteers could carry on their work.  We also supplied them with computers so they could continue to maintain a database of turtle activity allowing definitive measurement of turtle behaviour in this area.
  • Repaired the plumbing and water system at another of our Community work with children in Sri Lanka projects to fix the damp problems that were making the centre unliveable.

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2004

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