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Jenny Ley-Meek “We have
downloaded the letter by Lucy
Huxley to chancellor Alistair
Darling calling for APD to be reformed”
W
hen TTG launched its Travel returned to the same village laden with
Gives Back campaign in 500 blankets to distribute. Over the past six
November, I thought about years, they have continued to revisit the
what I could do to help. village, each time taking hundreds of
But with the comings and goings blankets bought from donations collected.
of Christmas, like many I quickly This should remind us how
forgot my silent resolution to important it is to support the
make a difference this year – Travel Gives Back campaign.
until the postman dropped At Superior Travel, we
my TTG through the door downloaded and photo-
last Friday. copied the letter by
Spotting the Travel TTG editor Lucy
Gives Back logo, my Huxley to chancellor
thoughts started racing Alistair Darling,
again as I remembered a which calls for APD to
heart-warming story I had be reformed (TTG Janu-
read a few years ago about ary 16), and have asked
a lady who had spent a all members of staff to
night in a hill-tribe village send it to their local MP.
in northern Thailand while I have also asked they sign
travelling with friends. the Fair Fares petition on
The villagers were poor and lacked
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk
basic necessities; all were without shoes /APDtax
and slept on bags of rice. Despite daytime These two small actions only took one
temperatures of 33C, the nights were hour. I might not have climbed mountains
freezing and their thatch-roof huts to deliver blankets (yet!), but if this can
provided little warmth. encourage any agents to get behind Travel
Neither suitably dressed, nor packed for Gives Back, I’m fulfilling my resolution.
such cold conditions, the group was facing
a dangerous night – until several villagers
approached them offering the few
blankets they had.
This selfless act of putting the well-
being of their guests before their own
deeply touched this group of friends,
who vowed to repay their generosity.
And they did. After saving and Jenny Ley-Meek works for homeworking
collecting donations, they soon company Superior Travel
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