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A travel service could operate a call center in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamey Niamey] and use the call center to teach, among other things, the languages French and English.
A travel service could operate a call center in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamey 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.
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.


: See: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Niger Languages of Niger]
: See: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Niger Languages of Niger]

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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.

Pegasus

  • allows to collect the full commission of 8% (to 12%) for hotels.

Example

(The example page shows affiliate links for the two 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.

See: Languages of Niger

See also