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Discover The World of JoHo WorldSupporter

 

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What is the JoHo mission, vision and concept?

 

JoHo WorldSupporter mission and vision:

  • JoHo wants to enable people and organizations to develop and work better together, and thereby contribute to a tolerant tolerant and sustainable world. Through physical and online platforms, it support personal development and promote international cooperation is encouraged.

JoHo concept:

  • As a JoHo donor, member or insured, you provide support to the JoHo objectives. JoHo then supports you with tools, coaching and benefits in the areas of personal development and international activities.
  • JoHo's core services include: study support, competence development, coaching and insurance mediation when departure abroad.

What is the JoHo target group?

Core target groups

  • Travelers, volunteers, workers, emigrants, and everyone involved in the world around them.
  • Young people, students, interns, and anyone who want to develop themselves further.
  • Projects, initiatives and organizations that are committed to international cooperation.

What are the JoHo core themes?

  • Personal development: Learning, Studying, Working, Applying, Entrepreneurship, Initiating.
  • International cooperation: Help, Travel, Arrange, Emigrate, Immigrate and Inspire.

How can JoHo support you?

  • JoHo supports you with tools, decision aid, advice and discounts on articles, insurance, travel, activities, training, facilities, summaries and media use.

How can you support JoHo?

  • By using the JoHo products and services you automatically support the goals of JoHo.
  • You can also join JoHo online or in the support center as a donor or subscriber.
  • JoHo donors make it possible for JoHo to have committed to successful projects in the field of development cooperation, knowledge sharing and talent development for years. Anyone who supports JoHo can also contribute to the projects and can make use of knowledge, decision aid and discounts.

What have JoHo and JoHo donors already achieved?

What does the World of JoHo consist of?

JoHo WorldSupporter 

  • The JoHo platform for those who also want to do something for others, an online community and marketplace for global citizens, volunteers and involved companies.

JoHo Insurances

  • The JoHo platform for all your insurance, security measures, visa matters, vaccinations & arrangements for short and long stays abroad.

JoHo Memberships

  • The JoHo platform for personal development with tools for study, internship, work, travel and emigration.

JoHo Partnerships

  • The JoHo platform where organizations are enabled to bring their projects, activities and vacancies to the attention of a target group that wants to mean something for the world around them.

How can you use JoHo?

  • You can explore the World of JoHo through JoHo support centers, the online platforms and the events.
  • Visit a JoHo World Experience Center, make an online discovery trip, visit JoHo at an event, or contact us.
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What is the meaning of the term JoHo?

  • The term JoHo has had multiple meanings over the years. Today, reference is made to a more than 2,000-year-old quote from Ashoka. On the banks of the Ganges, the Indian visionary and ruler Ashoka tried to convince his people that all peoples on earth are equal and can learn from each other: "Life is a Journey to Open-mindedness, Helpfulness and Optimism".

 

"Life is a Journey to Open-mindedness,

Helpfulness & Optimism."

 

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JoHo Projects & Initiatives

JoHo Projects & Initiatives

Develop experience, Experience development

Main theme: Global Citizenship

  • Through various promotional, incentive and advisory activities, young people, and nowadays also older people, are made aware of all kinds of possibilities of being abroad and getting involved in development. On the one hand by partner organizations in the Netherlands and abroad, and on the other hand by JoHo support centers in developing countries.
  • Annually, more than 1,000 projects are provided with manpower, funding and other resources through JoHo partners abroad. Because of these projects tens of thousand of children receive education, childcare and teaching materials. Hundreds of disadvantaged young people get the chance to start a study, setup their own business or access free (health) insurances. Hundreds of aid workers are supported when realizing their activities.

JoHo Support Centers

Main themes: Choice Improvement and Sustainable Tourism

  • Through preparation, awareness and advisory activities, backpackers and travelers are encouraged to act fair during their stay abroad. Besides that, they get inspired to use -where possible- organizations that also have proven to be "sustainable" and "world supporting'.
  • Meanwhile, more than 1 million travelers and backpackers use the information activities of JoHo through JoHo support centers.

Smokey Projects

Main themes: Talent Development & Community Based Tourism

The Smokey Tours

  • Smokey Tours are not just tours. They offer experience, believing that deep experience equals deep insight. The tours are unique and honest; a testimony of changing times and our global interconnectedness. All tours are guided by well-trained local Smokey Tours tour leaders, from underprivileged communities to running eye-opening tours around Metro Manila.
  • All tour leaders are part of the JoHo Insurance for Talent Programme which assures them and their families of Health Insurances.
  • Smokey Tours hopes to bring societal change in our communities, either small or on a much bigger scale. It is a huge goal, and they work in small steps. It is not easy, and sometimes things go smoothly, sometimes not at all.

The Smokey Health Center 

  • Providing positive and meaningful impacts on those living in the slums have been the goal since the inception of Smokey Tours. We have distributed relief goods and given qualitative training on health and disaster preparedness that will surely help the slum community cope with the daily challenges that they face. Cooperation and coordination with non-government organizations, people’s organizations and concerned individuals have been vital in successfully addressing these short to medium term social issues as we race to reach our goal.

The Smokey Art & Work Center

  • We believe that mental illness is nothing more than an illness, nothing more, nothing less. That it is not a mental disability if the person affected can function in society provided the illness, like all other illnesses, is properly managed. 
  • In a society that is increasingly becoming insensitive to the plight of people with mental illness, we have taken the cudgels to promote the advocacy of eliminating all shame and stigma and creating a support group for artists with mental illness and their caregivers – Boxless Society.  

The Smokey Library

JoHo World School Bank

Main theme: Knowledge Sharing

  • JoHo World School Bank materials: a multimedia initiative facilitating pupils and students to donate their school materials, extracts and excercises (written in English or Spanish). These materials are made available to pupils and students in developing countries, both online and (partly) in print.

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JoHo WorldSupporter

Main themes: Global Citizenship & Knowledge Sharing

  • A community website for those who actively want to work for a world where everyone, independent of origin, can lead a good life. Anyone can contribute to the community, by creating a profile (resume), and by blogging about activities and experiences that contribute to global citizenship.
  • The main goal of this multimedia platform, for and by 'supporters', is to exchange knowledge internationally and to make already invented wheels more available.
  • JoHo WorldSupporter Magazine operates as a multimedia initiative with WorldSupporter blogs, songs, stories, recipies, advice, statements, photos and videos about global citizenship at work, on holiday, at school or in leisure time.

Millennium DO

Main theme: Global Citizenship & Integration

  • "Millennium Do" encourages and facilitates young people to inspire others, through their own global citizenship, to actively contribute as well. Apart from that, Millennium Do stimulates talent development of young people.
  • The program is focused on the millennium development goals and practical ways to achieve these goals.
  • The program ran between 2011-2015, with a preceding similar program (called "JoHo Xplore") between 2005-2009.
  • Initiative in The Netherlands.

JoHo World market & travel pawn

Main theme: Collaboration & Sustainable Tourism

  • Worldsupporter Market is a thrift store where used or surplus travel items are offered for sale, via the Web and in JoHo support centers.
  • Initiative in The Netherlands.
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Financing

JoHo WorldSupporter is funded out of three sources:

  • contributions of JoHo donors
  • contributions through JoHo activities
  • contributions from sponsorships and grant

Direct effects

  • Already more than 1 million travelers and backpackers used the available information in the JoHo support centers.
    or got inspired by the activities of JoHo and JoHo members.
  • Already more than 11 million online visitors use the choice advice and other tools for sustainable and fair experiences abroad.
  • Since 2002 +/- 20,000 supporters went on the road using JoHo's services. On average they donated 575 euro as a direct contribution to the various projects. Locally one spent an average of 300 euros at local small sized companies. Through the contributions of intermediary organizations an extra 300 euros per person is put into the local economy. On an annual basis, this adds up to more than 2.000,000 euros.
  • Annually, more than 1,000 projects are provided with manpower, funding and other resources through JoHo partners abroad. Because of these projects tens of thousand of children receive education, childcare and teaching materials. Hundreds of disadvantaged young people get the chance to start a study, setup their own business or access free (health) insurances. Hundreds of aid workers are supported when realizing their activities.
  • The "Millennium Do" participants reached with their fundraising for their projects an amount of > 1 million Euro.

Indirect effects

  • An average of 50,000 friends and family members are directly involved in JoHo member activities through social media and direct contact.
  • 30% of these friends and relatives plan to become active themselves too, in the Netherlands or abroad.
  • 1% of these friends and relatives actually visit them and spend another 850 euros on average.

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JoHo Smokey projects & JoHo WorldSupporter

 

JoHo & The Smokey Projects

JoHo & The Smokey Projects

Smokey Projects - The Goals & Initiatives

Smokey Projects - The Goals & Initiatives


Smokey Goals, Projects and Initiatives

  • Smokey Projects hopes to bring societal change in our communities, either small or on a much bigger scale. It is a huge goal, and we work in small steps. It is not easy, and sometimes things go smoothly, sometimes not at all. 
  • We try to do the things the best way we can, and we always try to find ways to be more sustainable.
  • Thank you all very much for supporting us!

The Goals

  • Smokey Projects aims to improve the living conditions in Baseco’s, and other slum areas in Tondo, Metro Manila.
  • Providing positive and meaningful impacts on those living in the slums have been our goal since the inception of Smokey. We have distributed relief goods and given qualitative training on talent development, health and disaster preparedness that will surely help the slum community cope with the daily challenges that they face. Cooperation and coordination with non-government organizations, people’s organizations and concerned individuals have been vital in successfully addressing these short to medium term social issues as we race to reach our goals.

The Projects & Initiatives

  • In 2022, during a Baseco Tour, a guest witnessed a fire in the area where the tour was being conducted. After the tour, the guest kindly donated 60 fire extinguishers to the community where the tour is held. Since then, a number of fires have been prevented and at least seven units have been refilled. Two years later, in the first quarter of 2024, the project was replicated to cover more areas, distribute another 60 units, and train more people in operating extinguishers.
  • Since the beginning of 2023 has BYSMP Bless the Children taken over the operations of Smokey Tours. All skills and best- and worst practices have been shared. A new facility has opened in Baseco with a small outlet shop to give livelihood to the tourleaders and other people in the community.
  • Several large boxes of travel materials were shipped to the Philippines in the fall of 2023. Bless the Children has a souvenir corner in the just-opened office in Baseco, where the slum tour ends, which includes travel supplies. 
  • Smokey Tours works with the pay-it-forward system. A guest does the slum tour, and the guest thereby supports the local tour leader and also for a small part the projects of Bless the Children. Sometimes the slum tour guests donate energy, goods, or money. Among other things, former guests donated shoes. A total of 586 shoes were donated. Many families do not have the budget to purchase shoes for their school-aged children. The shoes are required to attend school.
  • A project of Bless the Children's Philippine Summer was a talent development activity. The "Laro ng Lahi" (literal = games from our ancestry) is an annual event. Being out of the slum environment for three days allowed 1.200 children to recharge, have fun, and gain insight into their own qualities and talents. 
  • From 2020 until now we have started working together with BYSMP Bless the Children Foundation and Project Propel more closely. The goal is to exchange skills and talents. Smokey has helped with our tourleaders to start the Talent Development in the slum community that our partners support. The covid situation has made the local work al lot harder, but only more needed.
  • After we have done a Baseline study in Baseco. We have focussed our Energy on Talent Development. We want to help people help themselves, to gain confidence and to be able to provide for their families. We give Talent Development Programs in Baseco, with the goal that people can find a paid job. 
  • In 2020 Business/families in charge of water filter system have been selected in partnership with Project Propel and through ocular assessment with the following criteria: Each resident was hand selected due to their community reach, accessibility, and proximity to water hose/source. 10 Families and their communities can have life long clean water, which will decrease diseases and the families can drink cheaply more clean water.
  • Another project with Project Propel is the start of the Floating gardens in area of mangroves of the PRCMO in Baseco as livelihood of 10 families with the goal of Nutrition.
  • In 2019 with donations we have funded our Baseco Recycle Worker Project, where we have trained 6 Baseco Recycle workers and their communities. After 6 months, they were able to function by themselves, with the tools needed, saved and partly funded, like a Tribike or a cart to pick up Garbage.
  • We have started after the fire disaster to give loans to community members, with coaching and money, they are able to rebuild their businesses and to provide for themselves. 
  • In 2018 we continued our Efforts in the Community in Health Projects, we support a group of 45 pregnant ladies. With folic acid and with skills training regarding healthy food, living and breast feeding. 
  • In 2017 we opened a Health Center - for the people of - Aplaya in the barangay Baseco, Manila. Aplaya is the part of Baseco that hardly receives any help from NGO’s because of its remote and isolated location. The Health Center has been a place where individuals and/or families can go to check on their physical and mental well being, for medical consultation and treatment and/or to obtain medicines - if necessary. The goal is to improve the conditions of the people of Baseco by treating diseases or illnesses and providing them with clean water, so they will be able to avoid water borne diseases. The local Health Workers are visiting the community to check and help the weak and sick people. 
  • From 2016 we initiated and facilitated the Smokey Art Center: Boxless Society.The Boxless Society will help the community in Baseco with art workshops, with the goal to discover Talents of the residents. In a society that is increasingly becoming insensitive to the plight of people with mental illness, we have taken the cudgels to promote the advocacy of eliminating all shame and stigma and creating a support group for artists with mental illness and their caregivers. We believe that mental illness is nothing more than an illness, nothing more, nothing less. That it is not a mental disability if the person affected can function in society provided the illness, like all other illnesses, is properly managed. 
  • In 2015 we started with Smokey Tours. The project that empowered, trained and gave livelihood to people from impoverished areas to run safe and eye-opening tours for our guests in Manila. Our freelance tour leaders were an example in their communities; they learn, learn to take the lead and help others. It has been a journey to teach our tourleaders work ethics and to coach them finding a future job somewhere else. Smokey Tours wants to be a stepping stone for our tour leaders, after 2 years they made place for new tour leaders. We aimed to raise awareness about social issues and to bridge the gap between people from different backgrounds. Our Slum Tour in particular gave our guests a chance to experience something unique. We planted a seed in their conscience so that they think about the world and about helping out. 
Smokey Projects - The Job & Training Center

Smokey Projects - The Job & Training Center

 

Smokey Job Center & Talent Development

  • In 2019, we have started a small Job Center in Baseco, so we can inspire and help, people to help themselves.
  • We will recruit and train more Freelance Tour Leaders, and they will help the community with their Talent Development.
  • In slum communities, as in any other place, are a lot of people with talents and skills, you will see.
  • It is just a way of helping others to discover their talents and to help people to find a job, with job application training and intensive coaching and guidance.

Smokey Baseco Recycle Workers Project

  • In the last quarter of 2018, we have started together with the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC): the Baseco Recycle Workers Project.
  • Every 6 months, for the duration of 1,5 years, 3 Recycle Workers will be paid and trained to segregate and recycle waste.
  • Together with the households in their own communities, trainings on Solid Waste Management are given. 
  • After 6 months, the Baseco Recycle Workers own their own cart and can provide for their own Livelihood.
Smokey Projects - The Tours

Smokey Projects - The Tours

 

Smokey Tours Social Impact

Our Tour Leaders

  • We empower, train and give livelihood to people from impoverished areas to run safe and eye-opening tours for our guests in Manila. Our freelance Tour Leaders are an example in their communities; they learn, learn to take the lead and help others. It has been a journey to teach our freelancers work ethics and to coach them finding a future job somewhere else. Smokey Tours wants to be a stepping stone for our Tour Leaders, after 2 years they make place for new Tour Leaders.

Our Guests

  • We aim to raise awareness about social issues and to bridge the gap between people from different backgrounds. Our Slum Tour in particular gives our guests a chance to experience something unique. We hope to plant a seed in their conscience so that they think about the world and about helping out. 

Our Communities

  • We use 100% of the profit of the Slum Tour to improve the living conditions in underprivileged communities. We work towards the goal that our communities are equipped and empowered to create social change for themselves and others. We focus on Talent Development and we want to empower them and to help them to help themselves, so that they may learn to stand independently.

Our Covid Situation

  • BYSMP Bless the Children is educating, with the help of Smokey projects, new tourleaders to continue with the slum tour. To book tours, please contact them directly.

 

 

Smokey Projects - The Community Library

Smokey Projects - The Community Library

     

    • The Community Library collects educational books to freely lend to the kids in BASECO, by creating a habit for reading, kids may eventually elevate themselves from their impoverished state of affairs.
    • Smokey is supporting by soliciting guests to donate books and funding to build shelves and a roof for all the books, to be kept safe and dry. 
    • In the Community Library are also activities being held for the kids, like origami by our Japanese volunteers, remedial teaching by our Dutch volunteers, reading and writing by our own tourleader(s)
    Smokey Projects History: The Health Center

    Smokey Projects History: The Health Center

     

      History

      The Health  Center

      • Bearing great news last 2017, all the planning and hard work bore fruit as we established our health center in collaboration with the residents of the slum of Baseco. On 13 May, the newly constructed community health center began its arduous task of attempting to treat about 4.000 adults and children for the first 12 months and consequently increase the number as the years progress. This is approximately 15-20 residents a day, 6-days a week. As we provide free health care to the people, we will also provide them with skills and knowledge to avoid and prevent diseases and to be able to live healthy lives in the best way possible given their dire situation. Smokey Tours also provides a livelihood to community trained health care workers who would otherwise be peeling garlic for a living and earning a measly PhP 60 a day.

       

       

      WorldSupporter: What is JoHo Worldsupporter Project?

      WorldSupporter: What is JoHo Worldsupporter Project?

       

      Worldsupporter Website 

       

      The 'WorldSupporter' platform

      • The JoHo WorldSupporter project is an online community in which individuals and organizations inspire and help each other on a local and global level
      • You can share and find everything to help someone else, travel responsibly, study well, develop yourself and work for an organization that creates a better world
      • You can gain knowledge, share experiences, answer questions, post comments and publish your own WorldSupporter CV
      • You can share your summaries, photos, blogs, magazines, events, sustainable recipes and tips for others
      • You can meet committed Supporters from over 150 countries and help make the world around them a better place

      How do you use WorldSupporter?

      • You can create a WorldSupporter account in a few minutes and it is integrated into your Personal WorldSupporter profile.
      • Your WorldSupporter profile is comparable to your own platform for all content that you create or disable on WorldSupporter.
      • Your WorldSupporter profile also shows all content recently created by the organizations, groups and people you personally follow.
      • Your WorldSupporter profile indicates what you powerfully contribute to the world around you. It shows what you do for others, during your education, during your work, on holiday or in your spare time. The goal is to inspire others to contribute more to the development of the world of specifically your favorite projects and charities. Moreover, it is also a tool with which you can create a good picture for yourself or those around you of your activities, the role you play or the goals you want to achieve in life.
      • Snce WorldSupporter is an independent platform with its own mission and objective, you will also be asked to create your own WorldSupporter mini-CV so that your fellow supporters can get an idea of ​​you and you get a good idea of ​​the people and organizations you would will follow.

       

       

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      Why Insurances through JoHo

      • Specialized: in emigration, work, internships, study and travel abroad.

      • Service: JoHo offers multiple travel insurances by multiple companies. Thanks to JoHo's extensive experience, it can offer support in case of problems with insurers, as well as advice and fast and personal handling.

      • Safe: JoHo is recognized as a trustworthy intermediary for insurances.

      • Social: by purchasing an insurance through JoHo you provide a talented student in The Philippines with health insurance

      Why Should You Take Out A Travel Insurance?

      • The chance of getting injured or ill is generally higher than when you would have stayed at home. The medical care you will need can be very expensive, even more so if you are treated in a private clinic.

      • If you have to fly back because of family circumstances, the flights might be more expensive than your original flight because you have to fly on short notice.

      • You might have to deal with the damage, loss or theft of your luggage.

      • In case of emergency it can be difficult to figure out what to do. A good travel insurance will have an assistance team on standby for you 24/7 and will be able to tell you what steps to take.

      Why Should You Specifically Take Out A Travel Insurance For A Long Trip Abroad?

      • Often regular travel or health insurances only cover trips for a maximum number of days (for example 60, 90 or 180 days).

      • Depending on your home country, your health insurance might not offer any coverage for treatment abroad.

      • During a long trip you might consider specific activities, like paid work or volunteering. Regular travel insurances often don’t cover these kind of activities. The same goes for adventurous/ hazardous sports like skydiving, scuba-diving and bungee jumping.

      More on why to use JoHo

      • JoHo is one of the few organizations where you can directly purchase a comprehensive range of foreign insurances from a variety of insurers. As with our other products and services, we believe that you should be able to choose between the best, the most cost effective and the most specialized insurance.

      • JoHo offers various possibilities from combining insurances to assisting in transferring from one insurer to another.

      • When you purchase an insurance policy through JoHo, you will not pay more than if you had purchased it directly from the insurer. Sometimes (through special collective agreements) you will even pay less.

      • JoHo offers support with problems that may arise with the insurer. Sometimes disagreement with claims, cancellation notice or insurance premiums can occur. In this situation it helps if you have the assistance of an organization who has an established relationship with the insurer.

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