Social Impact & Sustainability Charitable Giving Program

Since 2004, Ciao Bambino has played a central role in inspiring and enabling families to explore the world. We have witnessed time and time again how travel challenges and transforms families, offers a broader lens to our diverse, multicultural world and extends education beyond the classroom. After living through the COVID-19 pandemic and the radical loss of travel, it’s clear that there is truly no substitute for the value and impact of in-person connections and experiences. We also learned that global communities are more deeply connected to one another than ever.

Purposeful travel is more important than ever.

Taking Action to Travel For Good

We’re putting our money where our mouth is! We are thrilled to announce our social impact and sustainability charitable giving program at Ciao Bambino that offsets the carbon footprint created by travel, while finding ways to accelerate the social impact created by preserving and empowering the communities we visit as we celebrate diversity and inclusion. Ciao Bambino is partnering with two thoughtfully vetted non-profit organizations and donating $30* per completed trip from our quarterly profits to the organization specified by each family who travels with us.

*Trips valued at $5,000 and up taken from June 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023 qualify for the $30 per trip charitable giving program.

Bess The Book Bus instills a love of reading in asset limited communities by supplying high quality books to children, caregivers and educators and making the joy of book ownership a reality. Trips planned with Ciao Bambino will build home libraries for 125 preK through second grade students and classroom libraries for 8 teachers at a vulnerable school in Tampa.

Trips with Ciao Bambino have provided $3,000 for veterans, service members, and military families in need.

Feeding America is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States operating food banks, food pantries, and community based-organizations. Trips planned with Ciao Bambino have provided meals to 30,000 families.

Success for All This helps bridge the literacy gap in the United States. Trips with Ciao Bambino have provided early reading literary materials to 60 students for a year.

One Tree Planted participates in global reforestation, working with a network of ecologists to plant native tree species. Trips planned with Ciao Bambino have resulted in 6,680 trees planted.

Books For Africa fights book famine in Africa, donating educational materials to children in all African countries. Trips planned with Ciao Bambino have donated 6,420 books to Africa.

Direct Relief provides humanitarian relief to the world’s most vulnerable people. Trips planned with Ciao Bambino provided emergency medical backpacks to first responders on the ground that will help treat approximately 1,400 people in Ukraine.