TravelAid's routes can be traced back to the year 2000, when three Oxford University students set out to enable university students to share their skills with communities in the developing world.
Since then TravelAid has enabled almost 300 university students to volunteer their skills and provide microfinance to communities in 15 developing countries across the world. Donating a total of 96,000 hours, TravelAid volunteers have developed microfinance schemes, taught and mentored thousands of children, set up social enterprises and improved sanitation conditions for entire villages.
Project microfinance, raised through volunteer fundraising, has enabled TravelAid to install rainwater harvesting systems in schools, set up an HIV/AIDS clinic and an orphanage, and to provide quality education to countless numbers of disadvantaged children and young adults.