{"id":9356,"date":"2016-08-31T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2020-10-27T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:58:51","slug":"duncan-magic-myanmar-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/duncan-magic-myanmar-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Myanmar holiday changed Duncan&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>We invited Duncan, founder of our destination charity: Heal Kids, to talk about how travel inspired him to set up the foundation. On his visit to Bagan, he met a group of streetchildren all wishing they could go to school. Struck by their drive to learn, he went back out just a month or so after returning from his holiday to make a difference and start empowering locals to improve their own lives.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CXnher1zYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>If Duncan&#8217;s story has struck a chord with you, do read more about his current projects in the country at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healkids.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.healkids.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can also\u00a0join\u00a0in our efforts to raise funds for more opportunities for Burmese children here. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>At the moment a key activity is building\u00a0accommodation\u00a0for children who live too far away from\u00a0secondary school to travel from home everyday so that they can still study at a higher level. The buildings have to be specially constructed to withstand the monsoon and separate quarters need to be designed for girls and boys. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>There is also another project to provide vocational training like motorcycle repair and sewing to school leavers to help their employment prospects. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Finally money is being raised for particularly\u00a0disadvantaged\u00a0families to afford books,\u00a0stationery, uniforms and bags for children at primary school.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.virginmoneygiving.com\/ExperienceTravelGroup2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9366 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/btn-donate-now.jpg\" alt=\"btn-donate-now\" width=\"222\" height=\"64\" data-id=\"9366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/btn-donate-now.jpg 222w, https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/btn-donate-now-150x43.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invited Duncan, founder of our destination charity: Heal Kids, to talk about how travel inspired him to set up the foundation. On his visit to Bagan, he met a group of streetchildren all wishing they could go to school. Struck by their drive to learn, he went back out just a month or so after returning from his holiday to make a difference and start empowering locals to improve their own lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":9369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1314],"tags":[1350],"coauthors":[1316,1261],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myanmar","category-your-travel-story","tag-travel-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3153,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}