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We’re all becoming more caring and sharing, according to a new poll which claims that an increasing number of people are opting to use their holiday time for ‘altruistic travel’.

According to the research, there has been a 67 per cent rise in the number of people taking ‘meaningful travel programmes’, for example carrying out community work in Mombassa or painting favellas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Almost three quarters of these travellers are female and one in ten is aged over 40, with one in three aged between 25 and 40.

I’m not surprised. These experiences are so incredible that people who take them up probably get more out of them than those they are helping. It also makes us feel good by doing something worthy.

All of us who have a roof over our head and money in our pockets are far better off than the majority of people in the world, regardless of how much we like to have a good moan.

Helping others appeases our guilt about driving to the recycling centre in our 4X4s, doesn’t it? What do you think?

Guest Article by Jeremy Skidmore

Monday, April 9th, 2007