Dreams of building a responsible tourism commerce took Amy Carter-Jones on a tough but rewarding journey to Mozambique My dream of using tourism to aid poverty relief and conservation began to take shape before I started university,when I worked on a tourism-funded research boat in Western Australia, and then taught in a rural primary school in Kenya. When at university I met the man who would become my husband, and I told him approximately this dream,and when I graduated (in marine zoology) he said, “Why don’t we just do it?”So, or in our early twenties we started looking for the upright location; northern Mozambique seemed perfect. We moved out there in 2003 to develop Guludo Beach Lodge and then set up Nema (meaning “the happiness felt when suffering ends”) as a charity to work with local communities to relieve poverty and protect the local environment. Success relies on being able to commit your entire life to the project for many years and not expect anything in returnContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com