Pay It Forward
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We're Patrick and Carl from CP Travels and our goal is to help make international travel more accessible to everyone.
CP Travels began as a way for Carl and I to share some of our travel stories with more people in the hopes that it'd encourage them to travel more. Over the past few years it has grown into something much bigger than that.
CP Travels has evolved into a platform where travelers can share their valuable perspectives on life; it is a network for people to meet new travelers and have shared experiences; and in 2017 it's looking to make dreams come true.
In 2017 we will be launching our year long, Pay It Forward travel initiative.
Pay it Forward; the eventThe event is comprised of 10 international group trips that will take travelers through 6 continents and will cover 14 unique countries. During each trip we will be helping the travelers complete items from their bucket lists.
This event doesn't just serve the group of travelers. We will be 'paying it forward' throughout the trip by raising awareness and collecting donations for two organizations that are very near and dear to us: The Lupus Foundation of America: Heartland Chapter and The Bee Foundation for Brain Aneurysm Awareness.
Carl's mother has thrived through two Brain Aneurysms, and my mother was diagnosed with lupus in 2005.
They are the reason that we have set out on this journey around the world and why we want to encourage so many others to do the same.
Life is short and unpredictable and there are lots of big, scary things that can happen at any moment and change whatever plans you might have had before. Our mothers journey's have inspired us to live a life of adventure and to help as many people as we can.
Once it's all said and done we not only want to make a meaningful impact in people's lives via traveling, we also want to be in the communities of each of the places we visit and make an impact in those areas as well.
Pay It Forward; the purpose
When we first started planning this event, the question that we kept going back to was, "How do we give back? How do we make a difference?"
That was the root of our company too.
We began as Black Men Travel, then Brown Men Travel, and finally ended at CP Travels. The name itself was us saying that we want to see more people like us having some of the experiences and opportunities that we've been fortunate enough to have. We wanted to show people just like us and change their minds about what traveling was and who could do it.
If they thought it wass impossible, we wanted to show them that it wasn't, and not only were we living proof, but they could be too.
I hope that what we've done has reached others in some way, and has changed some perspectives, and even encouraged some to think differently.
Pay It Forward is not just about travel, it's about knowledge.
This initiative aligns with our core values.
Travel is fun and pictures are cool, but it's what learned from travel that we value the most. As we lead groups that's how we hope to pay it forward. As we raise awareness for causes close to our hearts that's how we'll pay it forward. Let's get others to pay it forward with us. Everyone has something to give. Everyone has a story.
Share it with us.
How to contribute
There are several ways to take part in the Pay it Forward travel event:
1) Participate in one of the group trips.
2) Pay it Forward by donating to this GoFundMe page. Your contributions not only help someone fund their trip, but 60% of your contribution will be donated to the organizations mentioned above.
3) Subscribe to our newsletter and stay connected as we travel around the world, looking to make an impact.
What's in it for you?
Well obviously, you'll be making a valuable contribution to one of the afformentioned charities. Your contribution will also be used to help someone on the trip complete one of the items on their bucketlist.
Together, we can make a great big impact.
Live Adventurously,
Patrick & Carl
We're Patrick and Carl from CP Travels and our goal is to help make international travel more accessible to everyone.
CP Travels began as a way for Carl and I to share some of our travel stories with more people in the hopes that it'd encourage them to travel more. Over the past few years it has grown into something much bigger than that.
CP Travels has evolved into a platform where travelers can share their valuable perspectives on life; it is a network for people to meet new travelers and have shared experiences; and in 2017 it's looking to make dreams come true.
In 2017 we will be launching our year long, Pay It Forward travel initiative.
Pay it Forward; the eventThe event is comprised of 10 international group trips that will take travelers through 6 continents and will cover 14 unique countries. During each trip we will be helping the travelers complete items from their bucket lists.
This event doesn't just serve the group of travelers. We will be 'paying it forward' throughout the trip by raising awareness and collecting donations for two organizations that are very near and dear to us: The Lupus Foundation of America: Heartland Chapter and The Bee Foundation for Brain Aneurysm Awareness.
Carl's mother has thrived through two Brain Aneurysms, and my mother was diagnosed with lupus in 2005.
They are the reason that we have set out on this journey around the world and why we want to encourage so many others to do the same.
Life is short and unpredictable and there are lots of big, scary things that can happen at any moment and change whatever plans you might have had before. Our mothers journey's have inspired us to live a life of adventure and to help as many people as we can.
Once it's all said and done we not only want to make a meaningful impact in people's lives via traveling, we also want to be in the communities of each of the places we visit and make an impact in those areas as well.
Pay It Forward; the purpose
When we first started planning this event, the question that we kept going back to was, "How do we give back? How do we make a difference?"
That was the root of our company too.
We began as Black Men Travel, then Brown Men Travel, and finally ended at CP Travels. The name itself was us saying that we want to see more people like us having some of the experiences and opportunities that we've been fortunate enough to have. We wanted to show people just like us and change their minds about what traveling was and who could do it.
If they thought it wass impossible, we wanted to show them that it wasn't, and not only were we living proof, but they could be too.
I hope that what we've done has reached others in some way, and has changed some perspectives, and even encouraged some to think differently.
Pay It Forward is not just about travel, it's about knowledge.
This initiative aligns with our core values.
Travel is fun and pictures are cool, but it's what learned from travel that we value the most. As we lead groups that's how we hope to pay it forward. As we raise awareness for causes close to our hearts that's how we'll pay it forward. Let's get others to pay it forward with us. Everyone has something to give. Everyone has a story.
Share it with us.
How to contribute
There are several ways to take part in the Pay it Forward travel event:
1) Participate in one of the group trips.
2) Pay it Forward by donating to this GoFundMe page. Your contributions not only help someone fund their trip, but 60% of your contribution will be donated to the organizations mentioned above.
3) Subscribe to our newsletter and stay connected as we travel around the world, looking to make an impact.
What's in it for you?
Well obviously, you'll be making a valuable contribution to one of the afformentioned charities. Your contribution will also be used to help someone on the trip complete one of the items on their bucketlist.
Together, we can make a great big impact.
Live Adventurously,
Patrick & Carl
Organizer and beneficiary
Patrick Springer
Organizer
Spanish Lake, MO
CP Travels
Beneficiary
