Travel reservations
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A travel reservation portal could allow the traveller to spend the commission in a goodgifts.org-like shop with the Special Laptop Program as one choice.[Semipostal stamp]
One could form a non-profit organization to operate a travel reservation portal to provide funding for the associated charities. The portal could make use of Opodo and Pegasus, to allow travellers the full convenience of Opodo while allowing hotel-only reservations to provide more funding.
Opodo pays
- up to 1% for flights
- up to 5% for hotels
- up to 5% for cars
and can reserve holiday packages, rail + hotel etc.
- allows to collect the full commission of 8% (to 12%) for hotels.
Example
- Demonstration page - the credibility of the page would obviously benefit from an official certification from the OLPC Foundation.[Certified OLPC fundraiser]
(The example page shows affiliate links for four parent education courses now.)
Some ideas
A travel service could operate a call center in Niamey and use the call center to teach, among other things, the languages French and English. Lower cost of living would probably allow some additional luxuries (teachers, additional education), while allowing sufficient salaries. Low salaries could even be seen as a feature here, so as not to make such an employment attractive for sufficiently wealthy people (Any office work may appear attractive for larger societal circles in a developing country).
One could try to outsource a call center to (e.g.) T-Mobile or another call center operator interested to help. One could also certify call centers with educational facilities in developing countries with a separate certification process.
- See: Languages of Niger
