Leisure, Travel & Tourism - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Camp Borneo is a wholly owned subsidiary of Camps International.Camp Borneo has a number of camps established within marginalised rural communities across Sabah, where local community members are employed to staff and manage the camps. The camps allow visiting gap and school teams to stay within a safe framework whilst discovering local culture and working on worthwhile, long term and sustainable environmental and community based projects.Camps International is a social enterprise that balances profits with philanthropy. Camps operate a permanent network of international volunteer camps in the heart of rural communities and wildlife conservation areas through their wholly owned operations in Latin America, East Africa and SE Asia. Camps are located where poverty levels are high and/or there are significant environmental and wildlife conservation challenges. Most camps are established on community land and they employ local people to build, staff and supply their camps, with each one acting as the hub from which they run their wide range of sustainable volunteer projects and adventure activities for young people from around the globe. Projects vary from constructing school classrooms and supplying drinking water to terrestrial and marine wildlife conservation, reforestation, environmental education and micro finance initiatives.