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<div><strong>SustainaClaus’ Never Ending Trek</strong>
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<div>SustainaClaus defends and brings attention to children's letters, drawings and concerns from around the world - without jeopardizing children's safety - relaying the future they want, or the one they fear - directly to the people who make decisions that shape that future.
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<div>In November 2025, an 8-year-old autistic boy in the Brazilian Amazon drew a crying Earth and wrote:
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<div>Take care of the planet.
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<div>Save the forests.
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<div>Do not destroy my future.
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<div>Nature is life, it is peace, it is love.
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<div>Let us live in harmony. Respect the environment."
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<div>- Pietro, age 8, Belem, Brazil
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<div>His caring father carried that drawing to COP30 and placed it directly in SustainaClaus' hands.
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<div>It has since been seen on four continents.
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<div>Pietro is one of thousands of children whose voices the NeverEndingTrek carries forward.
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<div>30 years on the road, 10 UN climate conferences, the length of the Amazon and the Andes, getting home for a bit, then making the way toward COP31 in Turkiye.
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<div>Your donation goes directly to Philip McMaster aka SustainaClaus, the tireless promoter of this mission for the protection of childhood.
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<div>Not to an institution. Not to administrative overhead. Just fuel for the road and a caring adult voice to defend childhood everywhere.
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<div><strong>Please Donate.</strong>
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<div>Then ask a child in your life for their "Letter to the Future", post it to #SustainaClaus and #Childhood1st, and watch where it travels.
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<div><strong>The NeverEnding Trek</strong>
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<div>30+ years of expeditions.
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<div>10 UN climate conferences, from Paris to Belem.
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<div>Covered by the Associated Press (AP), TRT World, BBC, DW, The Guardian, NBC, TV Globo, Comet Mag and many more.
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<div>Since COP30, the NeverEnding Trek has experienced the full depth and width of the Brazilian Amazon, stayed in Andean communities at 4,000 metres, and joined the world's first Fossil Fuel Treaty Conference in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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<div>Next: shifting from South to North America, documenting, repairing and refitting in Canada, crossing the Atlantic, trekking across Europe, COP31 in Antalya and beyond.
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<div>The work never stopped.
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<div>The funding may have lapsed.
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<div>But with your help, the dynamic changes
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<div><strong>How To Join In - for FREE</strong>
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<div>Give a child a pen and paper.
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<div>Ask them to draw or write about the future they want, or the future they fear.
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<div>Photograph them holding it in front of their face.
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<div>Post it with hashtags #SustainaClaus and #Childhood1st.
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<div>Those hashtags are the address. They're how the Sustainies - helpers around the world - find the letters and present them to decision-makers.
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<div>Add your mayor's hashtag, your country's leaders, favourite celebrities or sports stars, anyone you want to reach with important messages from childhood.
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<div>See more at Childhood1st.com and ChildhoodDefense.com
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<div><strong>WHERE YOUR DONATION GOES</strong>
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<div><strong>Direct</strong> to SustainaClaus/Philip McMaster. Travel, accommodation, food, equipment, and the websites that keep this all running. Nothing to overhead. Nothing to an institution. Just fuel for the next leg.
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<div>Peace Plus One, Join the FUN! - SustainaClaus
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<div><strong>Is the NeverEnding Trek AI?</strong>
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<div>Everything you see here is based on the reality of the NeverEnding Trek
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<div>Over the years, ConscienceLAND has accumulated hundreds of thousands of authentic first-person images - real events, real people, real places, real moments of people working hard to bring peace, security and sustainability to the world.
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<div>But no single photographic image could capture the full depth of what SustainaClaus has experienced and plans from COP30 to COP31.
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<div>So we did what most people do today, when they lack a great illustrator: we asked AI.
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<div>The difference is that every element in this image is grounded in actual reality.
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<div>The Rollerblades are real.
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<div>Roger the Reality Rooster and Wednesday the Low Carbon Panda are real plush toys - companions on every trek for the last ten years. (AI took some liberties and showed them walking independently and carrying their own bags. We will take that as a compliment.)
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<div>The children holding Faceless Letters are real.
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<div>The large SDG Banner pictured here really exists and travels on the trek. SDGbanner.com It is not the same as the smaller SDGtoken banner that reached the summit of Everest in 2017-18 - that was a separate, purpose-made piece. Both are real. (The 17 SDG's are now distilled into the Sust10 SDGx - 10 essential goals - at Agenda2029.com.)
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<div>We really did traverse the full width of the Brazilian Amazon, from Para to Acre.
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<div>We really did stay in Andean communities living at 4,000 metres above sea level.
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<div>We really did attend the world's first Fossil Fuel Treaty Conference in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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<div>We really did visit Antalya, Turkiye in 2024 - site of the next COP31- and Demre, the birthplace of the real Saint Nicolas, the origin story of Santa Claus himself.
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<div>The Sustainies really did fly in hot air balloons over Cappadocia and explore the underground cities.
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<div>The Sustainies really did visit Gobekli Tepe, unfurl the SDG Banner, and pose beside the mysterious carved handbags of Pillar 43.
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<div>The beautiful, historic Hagia Sophia in Istanbul really was visited.
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<div>And as for whether Santa is real: ask any parent who does the work without the recognition or the credit.
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<div>The spirit of SustainaClaus lives in many of us and in everyone who wants to make childhood great again.
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