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Kate Humble urges travelling Brits ‘stuff your rucksack’ with her responsible travel website

Stuffyourrucksack.com acts as a message board between travellers and small charities and organisations that need things a traveller could easily bring with them on their holiday.

Anyone travelling that comes across a small school, for example, that needs books or toys, can put the details on the website to alert other travellers who may be planning a trip to the same place and could bring those things with them. Kate said, “I started the site out of frustration as I have travelled to many developing countries and come across so many small projects that needed things I could have easily brought with me, had I been able to find out in advance. This is what Stuff Your Rucksack does; let’s travellers know before they leave home what’s needed where they are going. Our logo says ‘Pack a Bag, Change a Life’. It really does! And the traveller gets a unique experience that can’t be bought or found in a guidebook.”

How do charities or organisations register their needs on the site? Some have found out about it and registered themselves but most of the over one hundred projects on the site at the moment have been registered by travellers who have seen the projects for themselves and want to help.

The site is easy to navigate, it is extremely user-friendly, and encourages travellers to post their photographs and videos and share stories of their Stuff Your Rucksack experiences. The Stuff Your Rucksack Foundation was set up by Kate five years ago. With more than 180 charities/not for profit organisations now registered on the site Kate felt it was time to officially launch the site and broaden its appeal and urge anyone travelling abroad this year to log-on to the site and find out what they can pack to change someone’s life. Said Kate; “I would love people to make Stuff Your Rucksack part of their essential holiday checklist. Passport? Money? Visa? Stuff Your Rucksack?”

TV Historian and traveller Dan Snow, said "Like so many other online movements that are changing the world bit by bit stuffyourrucksack.com is brilliantly simple and strikingly effective. No NGOs, governments, charities or middlemen; just you and someone who could use your help. I'll never go abroad again without checking it first."

Journalist and intrepid presenter of ‘Equator’ and Capricorn’ Simon Reeve said “Stuffyourrucksack.com is a fantastic idea for travellers who really care about the places they're visiting and the people they meet. Don't just take a few sweets to give away, take something useful! Not only will your gift directly benefit people in the community you're visiting, but it will give a real sense of purpose and focus to your journey. And that's something that money just can't buy”.

Check out the website at www.stuffyourrucksack.com

mazmedia.co.uk