Trek Escapes Renews its Support of SOS Children’s Villages Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, June 4, 2009—Trek Escapes, one of Canada’s leading Small Group Adventure Travel Companies, has renewed its support of SOS Children’s Villages Canada, the world’s largest orphan-serving organization, for a second year. From January 26 to February 17, 2009 the company held their annual “World in a Weekend” event in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, raising funds for the orphan-serving charity through admission.

World in a Weekend is a two day event bringing together 10 Adventure Travel Experts and 42 Slideshows, for over 40 hours of exciting information on the world’s most spectacular travel destinations. Evening shows were also held in Courtenay, Kamloops, Kelowna, London, Ottawa, Regina, Saskatoon, Victoria and Winnipeg.

IAbove: SOS Children’s Villages Partnership Program Manager, Kelsey Lemon, receives a donation from President & CEO of Trek Escapes, Dallyce Macas

The funds collected will contribute to SOS Children’s Villages‘ mission of providing a loving home and opportunity to orphaned and abandoned children.

More specifically Trek Escape’s donation will be directed to SOS’s new all-Canadian funded SOS Children’s Village in Ondangwa, Namibia as well as to the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School in Vientiane, Laos; the SOS Children's Village Khajuri Kalan for Children with Special Needs in Bhopal, India; and the SOS Family Care Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

Trek Escapes began operating in 1972 and is Canada’s longest established adventure tour company offering in excess of 5,000 special experience holidays in over 130 countries catering to all ages, fitness levels and budgets.

Trek Escapes operates locally in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. Trek Escapes is part of FC Adventures Canada Inc., a TUI Travel plc company. Their well-respected brands include; The Imaginative Traveller, Exodus, Peregrine, Geckos, Quark, and Trek’s own Africa in Style.