At Corporate Travel Connections we believe community and social values are fundamental to our core business principles and we believe it is the appropriate way of doing business. We have made a commitment to build a sustainable future for our clients, our staff and our community.
Our program focuses on three key areas where we are seeking to make a difference:
- Our People
- Our Environment
- Our Community
CTC has pro-actively been involved with and has encouraged staff to be involved with :
- Royal Children’s Hospital
- Movember
- Cancer Council- jump for men’s cancer
- Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave
- The Mater Mothers’ Hospital – Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU)
- ST. Judes – Tanzania
CTC actively encourage our staff to be involved in socially responsible practices and provide additional leave for staff wanting to partake in practices which will not only enhance themselves, but also the community we live in, or the wider community at large.
Michelle Wilcox – General Manager Queensland
Michelle has been encouraged and supported by CTC in her commitment in “helping others”. This is Michelle’s story :
Women Adventure Challenge – Nepal
During the 11 day adventure challenge for women in Nepal, Michelle & Karen Cross (a client of CTC) joined other teams from all over the world to complete the challenge and support a local village. Part of their tasks and missions was to contribute to a local community, with real participation. Lake Titi, a village in the Annapurna Mountains, has about 14 families, and around 25 children of school age. There are almost no jobs here so teams made use of “homestays” in Titi Village. Each family received a simple mattress for each guest, and host participants in their homes with an evening meal.
Teams also helped the community upgrade the local village school and open a small library. Team Australia also raised enough money for each home in the village to receive a solar cooker heater.
Michelle’s time in Nepal and the villages she assisted
Jennifer Murphy, Operations Manager Victoria
Jen has also been encouraged and supported by CTC in her commitment to “helping others”. This is Jen’s story so far.
Jennifer travelled to Rwanda as a tourist and then decided to return on a volunteer program. Jen approached Nick for extended leave without pay and returned for a 2 month volunteer placement in Kigali (Rwanda’s capital city). Jen worked on an income generating program with ten women that were supported by a local charity organisation (NGO). These women lived in violent relationships and extreme poverty (like 80% of Rwanda’s population) She assisted with teaching them basic business, life skills and English. Most of the women either didn’t work at all, or had a small stall at the local market selling produce. This only provided a very small income to help support their families.
Of these women, all had many children, but none attended school, as the families could not afford the yearly US $50 school fees. All the mothers were illiterate and two of the women didn’t actually know the ages of their 3 children, they could not read their birth certificates (which caused a few problems when we later tried to enrol them into school)
Today, 8 children aged between 10 and 16 are now attending school and have school uniforms supplied from the work Jen did while overseas and since she has returned.
Post Rwanda, Jen is also actively involved with further community work for the families she was supporting while taking her extended leave. She held a Grand Final day event this year and raised $4000 to assist with school enrolments and uniforms.
CTC and Jen are also organising an annual “High Tea” to raise money to again continue the work she started with the Rwanda families. The High Tea has also been actively supported by our suppliers.
Jennifer and her Rwanda class
