Great photogear for travellers to be won at Passports with Purpose

If you’re a regular reader of this and other Travel Blogs you’ll already know about Passports with Purpose and the great prizes you can win by making a $10 donation for the prize draw against the prize of your choice.

The Travel Blogger’s Charity Fundraiser is in it’s second year, and this year we’re raising money to build a school in Cambodia. The initial target of $13K to build the school has been reached thanks to your support, and now we’re going for a further $13 to fund a school nurse, clean water and a vegetable garden for the school. Knowing how lucky I and my family are in the education we’ve received and take for granted, I’m pleased to try and give something back in a part of the world that’s still recovering from the 1970s, when the Khymer Rouge practically destroyed the educational system in Cambodia.

There are many great prizes on offer from books & music, cameras, hotels stays and holidays, great travel gear and product vouchers. You can read all about the Flip Camera I’m giving away on my previous post here, but let me remind you that this neat little video camcorder is perfect when you’re travelling light or want to have some fun with video.

In this post I’d like to focus on on some of the other great camera and photography prizes on offer – you can see all the Passports with Purpose prize details here.

At Whatboundaries there’s another Flip Mino Video Camera on offer – I don’t need any convincing on that one, and as I can’t enter for my own prize, I shall be crossing my fingers that I win this one instead.

My friend Anil at Foxnomad has a Casio Exilim EX-S5 10 Mega Pixel Digital Camera - this is the camera that Anil uses and recommends as it’s small, durable and has a great feature set for it’s size. As Anil’s a bit of a gadget fiend, I’ll take his word for that – I do hope it’s in blue as you’ve shown, as it’s my favourite travel colour, makes me thing of cloudless skies and crystal clear seas.

Debbie at DeliciousBaby is one of the brains behind Passports with Purpose and has a Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera as her prize which is another great pocket sized Video camera similar to the Flip, ideal for capturing those special moments with family and friends.

At Two and a half Travelers you’ll finjd a Fuji Instax Mini camera  and film. Apparently this cute camera is your old-fashioned Polaroid’s younger, hotter brother. It instantly prints credit card-size photos and just happens to be one the holiday seasons hottest gifts. Read more on Photojojo.

And if there’s something photographic you have in mind then enter the draw for the $100 Gift Certificate to B&H Photo and Video on offer from Wendy at Escape from New York. Wendy’s a preofessional photographer and I always enjoy her interesting shots, each with a little story behind them.

So do take a look at the great prizes on offer and make your pick. I’m donating $10 against a prize for each member of may family, choosing the gift I think they’ll enjoy most. I’m sure you can also thing of lots of ways you can incorporate this into your Christmas giving, or perhaps ask your loved ones to make a donation for the prize you’d like as your Christmas gift.

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Passports with Purpose and a Flip Video camera to giveaway

Today sees the launch of Passports with Purpose, the fund-raiser by Travel Bloggers to support those in the developing world who need our help. Last year we raised $7,000 for Heifer International and this year the target is to raise $13,000 to build a school in Cambodia.

Build a school in Cambodia

All donations to this year’s Passports with Purpose Fundraiser will go to the charity American Assistance for Cambodia to build a school in rural Cambodia where the population experienced so much trauma during the Khmer Rouge regime. The project establishes schools in poor, rural areas where children have been deprived of any educational facilities or been forced to learn outdoors for lack of funds to construct schoolhouses.

The AAfC uses matching funds World Bank and Asian Development Bank together with the $13,000 that Passports with Purpose hopes to raise, to cover the construction and start-up costs of the rural school. You can find out more about the AAfC’s Rural Schools Project here.

Flip Video Camera Prize

There are many Travel Bloggers offering travel related prizes as part of the Passports with Purpose draw. On the Passports With Purpose website you can find a list of all the prizes and the blogs where the details of the prize are posted.

I’m thrilled that Flip in the UK have donated one of their Flip Ultra Video Camcorders as a Passports with Purpose prize, as it’s a neat and fun little camcorder to take you when traveling or to record special moments with your friends and family. If you’ve been wanting to start shooting video but were afraid of all those camera settings and wizardry, then this is the video camera for you.

You shoot what you like and then upload directly through the USB port of your computer, with the option to email to your friends or upload to sites like Myspace and Youtube. Because it’s so small and self-contained, you don’t ever have to worry about missing that magic moment because you didn’t have the right gear – just pop it in your bag and go.

How the Passports with Purpose Draw works

From today, November 30th 2009, the Passports with Purpose website will show a list of all the prizes on offer, and each one will link back to a full description of the prizes on the blogger’s website. For each $10 in donations that you make to AAfC, you will will be entered to win a prize (or prizes) of your choice.

The fundraiser begins on November 30th and closes on December 21. All proceeds go directly to AAfC. You can donate $10 for the prize of your choice, or multiples of $10 for a favourite prize if you want to increase your chances, or $10 or more for several different prizes that take your fancy. It’s a great thing to make a donation as a gift on behalf of someone and if they win the prize that’s a bonus.

Next Steps

By now I’m sure you’re convinced that this is a charity worth supporting, particularly if like me you’re aware how lucky you and your family are in their opportunities for education that we all take for granted in the West.

So please go now to the Passports with Purpose website and make your donation for the Flip Video Camera or another prize of your choice. If you’re worried about what to buy for that person who has everything, go and buy them a $10 ticket and a chance to win a prize as a bonus. And if you feel you’d like to treat a child you’ve never met to a great Christmas present of a school and an education, then go to the Passports with Passport website and make your donation, or ask your loved ones to do so as your Christmas present.

I’ll be making updates about Passports with Purpose throughout December until the fundraiser closes on 21 December, so keep and eye on this blog, on the Passports with Purpose Website and follow the tweets at #pwp.

A Big Thankyou

• Thankyou so much in advance for your support
• Thanks to Flip in the UK who donated the Flip Video Camcorder as a prize
• Thanks to the key sponsors of Passport with Purpose who have got the fundraiser off to a cracking start
• Virtuoso is the industry’s leading leisure travel network. This by-invitation-only organization comprises more than 6,000 elite travel advisers associated with over 300 agencies in 22 countries, as well as over 1,000 of the world’s best travel providers and premier destinations.
• Got Passport: Will Travel, We’ll Serve
  Living Small, Giving Large. We are a family of three, with a passion for travel, seeking out new experiences, meeting new people, and living simply.
• HomeAway, Inc. operates the world’s leading and most-established vacation rental websites around the world, including HomeAway.com, VRBO.com and VacationRentals.com.
• Raveable.com is the fastest way to find the perfect hotel and is the first and only website that creates hotel review summaries based on the common rants and raves found in millions of online hotel reviews.
• Travelfish.org produces original travel content for the independent traveller heading to Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Recommended by Rough Guides, Footprint, Lonely Planet and others
• TravellersPoint is a vibrant travel community dedicated to seriously passionate travellers. Upload photos, create a blog or travel map, share travel tips in the forums, and contribute to the wiki travel guide
• Last but not least, thanks to Debbie Dubrow, Pam Mandel, Michelle Duffy and Beth Whitman, the bloggers behind Delicious Baby, Nerd’s Eye View, WanderMom, and Wanderlust and Lipstick who are working hard behind the scenes to organise Passports with Purpose.

Passports with Purpose thanks

What a fantastic result was achieved by the Passports with Purpose Raffle in raising $7420 for Heifer International. It was supported by over 60 travel bloggers who put forward prizes, countless sponsors who donated them and of course all of you out there who bought tickets.

My two prizes of a Christmas hampers of Travel Inspiration; stationary, books and DVDs to kick off your travel dreaming in 2009 were won by Marilyn Burgess from Bristol, UK and Jen Lacenda who blogs at Folie a Deux. About 20 more of you also won a bonus prize of the fabulous Paperblanks Year Planners.

I was also lucky enough to win the raffle prize of some Lonely Planet books and guides from Caitlin at Roaming Tales. I’m planning to make use of the Syria and Lebanon guide to plan the trip to Lebanon I’m so hoping will happen in the early summer.

I’d like to thanks my generous sponsors; Lonely Planet, Time Out, Alastair Sawdays, Paperblanks, Pocketcomms , Michael Palin and Indus Films, who donated the raffle prizes as well as all of you who supported the raffle. We must also give a pat on the back to the girls over in Seattle who came up with the idea and brought it to fruition in such a short time scale – well done to Pam of Nerd’s Eye View, Beth of Wanderlust and Lipstick, Michelle of Wandermom and Debbie of Delicious Baby. The Passports with Purpose raffle is planned to take place again next year, so look out then for some more great prizes to win.

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