Introducing your tour lead, Betsy Benoit
I'm so excited to travel with you!
For me, traveling isn't about ticking a box or collecting passport stamps - at least, it isn't now. It changed for me when I went on my first volunteer trip to Ghana in 2012, to help support a village that wanted to build a school. I learned so much about myself - and it was wildly humbling. From then on I was hooked on entwining travel with helping/volunteering/supporting local communities. I put my new passion into action, and became a Global Health Fellow for the pharmaceutical company I worked for, living and working in Cambodia for 4 months in 2014. After coming home and missing the exhilaration and challenges of international development, I took the plunge right into it - retiring out of corporate America and into leading the US branch of the Ghanaian non-profit with whom I had volunteered.
I led volunteer trips to Ghana, and loved showing others different places and cultures, and the joys and hardships of volunteering. From there I worked as a Fellow for the crowdfunding/fintech organization Kiva. Luckily they discovered my passion for travel and travel planning, and hired me to create and run their internal international learning and travel program, which included leading a group to Medellin, Colombia. Sadly, Covid came shortly afterwards and that career ended. As international travel became possible again post-pandemic, it seemed everywhere I went all I could think of was, "If I brought a group here, how could I make it a different experience than anything they've done before? How can I bring people's desire to help, together with the desire to explore, in a really awesome way?"
While visiting Namibia in the Fall of 2023, I finally decided to act on those ideas, and soon after created Today is My Someday Travel. Namibia will be my first tour with my own company, and I am enormously excited to have you come with me!
Let's do good stuff together, somewhere really amazing!!
