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Join me at The Gates Foundation GOALKEEPERS Conference 2019

I was honored to be included in the 2019 Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Conference. I also attended the United Nations GA 74 SDG 2030 Conference in September 2019 in New York City.

I wrote about both conferences for Ms. Magazine in these two articles:

25 Years After Beijing, What’s Next for Women Worldwide?

[image error]Lisa Niver at UN Women Meeting at United Nations GA 74 SDG 2030 New York City

We Heart: These Seven Feminist Efforts to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

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My video: Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Conference 2019 at Lincoln Center

From the Gates Foundation: “On September 25, 2019, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted the third annual Goalkeepers event in New York City. Goalkeepers is a catalyst for action toward the Global Goals—bringing together leaders from around the world to accelerate progress toward ending poverty and fighting inequality. “

“As a major initiative of The Gates Foundation, Goalkeepers is dedicated to accelerating progress towards the Global Goals. Events feature powerful stories, data, and partnerships to highlight progress achieved, hold governments accountable, and bring together a new generation of leaders to address the world’s major challenges. Goalkeepers 2019 featured global leaders like New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, renown scientists, civil society champions, and other emerging leaders — each committed to fighting global inequality. Hear how they each address the topic posed by Bill Gates of fighting global inequality. Learn how the Goalkeepers think we can achieve greater equality and meet development goals.”

Goalkeepers 2019: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern









Goalkeepers 2019: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez









Goalkeepers 2019: Panel discussion Jacinda Ardern, Pedro Sánchez, and Bill and Melinda Gates.









Goalkeepers 2019: Let’s Change the Odds with Bill Gates









Goalkeepers 2019: Amanda De Souza









Goalkeepers 2019: Dr. Senjuti Saha









Goalkeepers 2019: A Conversation with Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote









Goalkeepers 2019: Defining Bias









Goalkeepers 2019: Melinda Gates on Reframing Bias









Goalkeepers 2019: Blessing Omakwu on Bias in Emojis









Goalkeepers 2019: Drivers of Implicit Bias with Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt









Goalkeepers 2019: Blessing Omakwu on Bias in Design









Goalkeepers 2019: Dr. Joia Crear-Perry on Bias in Maternal Health in the United States









Goalkeepers 2019: Let Love Be Your Bias









Goalkeepers 2019: Lydia Murithi on Bias in Family Planning Access









Goalkeepers 2019: Panel Discussion on Bias









Goalkeepers 2019: Accelerator Announcements









Goalkeepers 2019: Taking Action in 2020









Goalkeepers 2019: Younger and Wiser

Thank you again to the Gates Foundation and Goalkeepers for including me in their incredible conference.

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5 Things You Need To Know To Survive And Thrive After A Divorce, With Lisa Ellen Niver

Thank you to Yitzi Weiner and Kristin Marquet for including me in their series
5 Things You Need To Know To Survive And Thrive After A Divorce



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…Somehow I got back up and recreated my life again and honestly, it has turned out better than I could ever have imagined.

As part of my series about the “5 Things You Need To Know To Survive And Thrive After A Divorce Or Breakup” I had the pleasure of interviewing Lisa Ellen Niver, M.A. Education.

Lisa is a science teacher and an award-winning travel expert who has explored 101 countries and six continents. She is an award-winning television host, travel journalist and passionate artist who sailed the seven seas by cruise ship for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. She is the founder of We Said Go Travel which is read in 213 countries, named #3 on the top 1000 Travel Blog and the top female travel blogger 3 times in 2019. Find her talking travel at KTLA TV and in her, We Said Go Travel videos with over one million views on her YouTube channel. She has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on Twitter, has over 160,000 followers across social media and ran fifteen travel competitions publishing over 2500 writers and photographers from 75 countries.

Niver won a 2019 NAEJ (National Arts and Entertainment Journalism) award for one of her KTLA TV segments in December 2019 and was a finalist for articles published in both Ms. Magazine and Wharton Magazine. Niver won a Southern California Journalism Award for her print story for the Jewish Journal and has been nominated as a finalist for five other broadcast television segments, print and digital articles over the last three years.

Niver has written for AARP, American Airways, Delta Sky, En Route (Air Canada), Hemispheres (United Airlines), Jewish Journal, Luxury Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Myanmar Times, National Geographic, POPSUGAR, Robb Report, Saturday Evening Post, Scuba Diver Life, Sierra Club, Ski Utah, Smithsonian, TODAY.com, Trivago, USA Today 10best, Wharton Magazine, and Yahoo. She is writing a book, “Brave Rebel: 50 Scary Challenges Before 50,” about her most recent travels and challenges. Look for her underwater SCUBA diving, in her art studio making ceramics or helping people find their next dream trip.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?

I have always felt that the quote about the road less traveled explained my career path the best. I thought I would be a doctor but then I left medical school and became a teacher. I loved being a teacher but wanted to scuba dive and then I worked on a cruise ship until September 11th when my company went bankrupt. Then I was teaching and missing traveling and fell in love and traveled more and got married and then everything unraveled and I was getting divorced. There have been so many times when I thought I had a plan and then felt like my entire life was a train wreck. I have felt blindsided several times and had to start all over again. It has been really challenging, difficult and mainly I wanted to just pull the covers over my head and cry every time. Somehow I got back up and recreated my life again and honestly, it has turned out better than I could ever have imagined.

A journey to freedom over three Passovers

Can you explain to our readers why you are an authority about “divorce”?

I know for myself I felt like a complete and utter failure when I was getting divorced. I was embarrassed that the man I had been head over heels in love with had been treating me terribly. I knew our marriage was broken; I just hated having to tell anybody about it. I was living in Asia with him and had quit my job, sold my car and rented my condo. When I left him and returned to America, I felt like I had nothing except culture shock and my ongoing pity party for myself. Many women I have spoken to about their divorces also felt alone and like failures. I think one of the hardest things is feeling like it is only you.

Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you started this career?

One of the hardest things for me was to stop wishing that I had never met the man who became my husband. I just kept telling everyone and especially my therapist, if I never met him, my life would have been so much better. If only, I had a magic wand and could go back in the past and never answer his online dating message! I was focused on how I could erase it all.

I was going to many new classes like kickboxing and hula-hooping because someone told me you could not do new things in the old way and it was a way to remake yourself. I had two new jobs as I was trying to figure out if I was going to keep teaching or try to be a journalist. I got both offers to be a lead teacher at Nickelodeon on Bella and the Bulldogs and contributor for USA Today 10best on the same day. I called a few people for advice about what to do and they said, “Take both!” It was smart advice and it kept me very busy.

I was reading books non-stop and when I read Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success I finally was able to stop looking in the rearview mirror and drive forward into my future:

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different…Forgiveness means breaking the psychological ties that bind you to the past, giving up the quest to change what has already happened…Rather than dwelling on the past, she found herself asking the hopeful and forward-looking question ‘What now?’”

I started to accept that I was never going to have a magic wand or change my past but I could make new and different choices in the present. I felt like I was leaving medical school again and having to find a new job after Renaissance Cruises went bankrupt — all rolled up together. I felt certain that I had made too many mistakes to start over again. Many times, I feared that I had ruined everything. But with the support of my friends, family, rabbis, and therapist, I found a way to create a new life.

In the last three years, I have been nominated nine times in four different awards and won twice in both the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and in the Southern California Journalism Awards.

Supersurvivors: https://www.wesaidgotravel.com/survive-the-unexpected-supersurvivors/

I am a grateful 3x NAEJ Awards Finalist!

Lisa is a winner! National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2019

Can you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?

When I first left my marriage, I told everyone I was living in CrazyTown and hoped to someday move to Sucksville. It seemed like Sucksville would be an improvement over the daily hysteria in CrazyTown. A new friend called to tell me about how her life was going into the toilet and she said she was now living in Sucksville Adjacent. I laughed so hard that day and it was one of the first times I thought anything was funny since I had left Thailand and my now ex-husband. I realized that it was possible that things were going to get better!

If you had a close friend come to you for advice after a divorce, what are 5 things you would advise in order to survive and thrive after the divorce? Can you please give a story or example for each?

When I was first choosing to take back my name and find a lawyer after I left my marriage, I felt like I was stuck in a long dark tunnel. I thought if only I had a flashlight and a friend would walk with me, maybe it would not feel so lonely and I would not feel so badly. After my divorce, when a friend called me upset about her upcoming divorce I told her that I would walk with her and she could borrow my flashlight. I offered that she could call me anytime and we would often have long chats over Facebook messenger as we were in very different timezones.

Therapy is one of the things that helped me the most in my divorce process. I remember telling my lawyer I am not here for crying, I am here for legal advice. I can cry at my therapist’s office. While I did cry at both places, I wanted my lawyer to focus on her specialty. I have offered many friends’ referrals for therapy and told them about how it really made a difference for me. I am surprised how many people are resistant to therapy and getting assistance, especially at difficult times.

As I changed continents as part of leaving my marriage, I had to find a new job and circle of friends. Many people I have spoken to have not had to move or change professions as part of their divorce, but it has still impacted their daily lives, routines, and support circle. I tried many new classes and searched for ways to connect with people. I joined a salsa dance performance team and having a regular place to go with the same group was enormously helpful to me. I have recommended to many women to find a new hobby or reclaim one they had lost.

I had always been involved with my temple and it was one of the things I missed living overseas. When I came back to Los Angeles, I met with my rabbi many times to talk about how I could get more involved and to have discussions about what it meant to be getting divorced. He helped me with the steps for a religious divorce or GET and I created my own mikveh ceremony to start over. Many people ask me questions about the GET process and if they could use the mikveh ceremony I created.

As part of my divorce, I restored my name. I had not realized how many places and how many times I would have to change my name. In the beginning, it felt so aggravating and upsetting. I spoke with my friend, Jessie, about it and she said, “When there is a spider in your room, you STOMP STOMP! and then it is gone.” It became my mantra every time I had to change my name AGAIN, I just thought it was a spider and STOMPED it. Eventually, it just did not bother me so much. I would send Jessie an email and say, “I stomped another spider.” It made me feel better that I had someone to share it with and it actually became kind of humorous after a while. It was weird that it was easier to change my name at any bank than any airline frequent flyer program. At one point, Jessie called me and said don’t be upset, “There was a spider and I called for Ed to stomp on [Ex-husband’s Name]!” I laughed so hard that our mantra to help me had evolved to such an extent.

What are the most common mistakes people make after they go through a divorce? What can be done to avoid that?

For me, the biggest mistake was thinking it would be easy to deal with. My friend Joan called me after I had been home for less than a week and said, “I have known you for a long time and I want to let you know you are not going to figure this out over the weekend.” It was helpful to have someone who knew me tell me the truth. As part of returning to the USA, I needed a car to start my new job. I was test driving cars and my friend Jessica called me and said, “Lisa, this is not going to take one test drive. This is not like buying a sweater. You are going to have to drive cars to different places and see what you like.” I think the biggest mistake is not listening to people who are trusted advisors who can help you figure out your next steps.

Do you have any favorite books, podcasts, or resources related to this topic that you would recommend to our readers?

I loved books by Brene Brown, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Glennon Doyle Melton, Adam Grant and Grit by Angela Duckworth, and Option B by Sheryl Sandberg.

Here are some articles I wrote about their books.

Carry On, Warrior: Share your Brutiful life like Glennon Doyle Melton

Are You Ready to be a Love Warrior?

Forgiveness Is a Favor: Finding my Strength

Daring Greatly: Share Your Story Summer Writing Contest

I recently wrote about feminist fiction books for Ms. Magazine and about how you can read and change your perspective!

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Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote” that helped you in this work? Can you share how that was relevant in your real life?

One of my favorite proverbs is “Fall down 7, Rise up 8.”

I think I learned this lesson as a child in the book, “The Little Engine That Could!” Now I might describe it in terms of Angela Duckworth’s GRIT that when I feel like giving up I can reframe the situation and find new resources and ways to continue learning about the situation and ways to achieve success. No matter what happens I can get up one more time and find a way forward that works for me. I may need to change my goal or my strategy and sometimes I may feel like a derailed train but eventually, I will find a path that works for me.

Are you working on any exciting new projects now? How do you think that will help people?

I am writing a book about the 50 challenges I achieved before I turned 50. It started during my divorce when I chose to work with Dr. Brodney, an optometrist, who correctly diagnosed my eye issues which were never fully understood when I was a child. I had many accidents and believed I was clumsy and not good at sports. It turns out that I had an eye turn which impacted how I interacted in the world especially with any sports with a ball!

During my vision therapy, Dr. Brodney recommended I challenge myself and see what more I could accomplish now that my eyes were working together. I realized I had to try new things and let go of old limitations. It was at the same time I was changing my name and evolving my life after my marriage ended. I found that I could do so many of the things I was afraid of and many of them were actually FUN!

Because of the position that you are in, you are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger.

Where did our Family go Diving for the Holidays? Bonaire

[image error]Arrival into Bonaire. Photo credit Mandy Buttenshaw

From the editor: While traveling around our planet has been paralyzed by the coronavirus, we know that we will travel again. We hope that the travel stories we publish inspire you to add destinations to your bucket list for your future travels!

Mandy and I have traveled and dove all around the world always in search of that next amazing adventure and view, and Bonaire lived up to the hype we had heard and read about. Bonaire is part of the Dutch Caribbean islands and is located only 50 miles north of Venezuela and has a very mild and warm climate all year round, and is only a 2½ hour flight from Miami. Average temperatures range from 90℉ (32℃) with lows down to 77℉ (25℃). Water temperatures are very stable all year round with average water temperatures between 84℉(29℃) to 79℉(26℃). With water temperatures so mild, a 3mm is all that divers require, with many opting to use only shorts and a rash guard. If you get cold, numerous dive centers located all along the coast are more than willing to rent or sell you a wet suit.

[image error]Queen Angel Fish. Photo credit Jason Buttenshaw

Bonaire
has possibly some of the best shore dives and snorkeling in the world with over
105 dive sites located around the island, many all just a short wade and swim
off the shore. Its fringing coral reefs are home to over 350 documented species
of fish and marine life, and so the diversity of marine life has a little of something
for everybody. What makes Bonaire even more remarkable is the care, compassion,
and seriousness the island government and residents take to manage and protect
its reef systems and biodiversity. In our time there, the coral all looked
healthy, full of life with very little bleaching to be seen. The conservation
efforts undertaken by the government and its residents have been so successful
that the United Nations Environment Program has designated it as the model for the
future and similar programs around the world.

[image error]Frog fish. Photo credit Spencer Buttenshaw

We stayed on Bonaire for two weeks over the Christmas break with friends and family in a house rental. There are plenty of accommodation choices available on the island for divers, from resorts with full dining packages and guided dives, to house or apartment rentals available at varying price point options, and you choose your dive schedule. Plenty of good restaurants, as well as well-stocked grocery stores for those who don’t mind cooking on holiday, will ensure no one goes hungry. Car or, in the case of Bonaire, pickup trucks, are essential to the diver who wants to explore on their own and see the island and are available at most of the car rentals and hotels. Tanks are equally easy with all dive operators offering air as well as nitrox to get the most out of your bottom time, diving, and holiday.

[image error]Healthy brain coral. Photo credit Jason Buttenshaw

Our
trip to Bonaire was a bit of a different style trip for us; typically, we will
do boat dives from an all-inclusive resort. For this trip, we wanted to self
cater and have a relaxed, easy family holiday. Neither of us has done many
shore dives, but after two weeks of shore diving can highly recommend it to any
recreational diver and well worth trying. What made it so enjoyable was the
relaxed feel to the day. Everybody gets up at their own pace, sips on a hot
coffee, or whatever the morning beverage of choice may be. Then once everyone
is up, gear can be loaded and then off to the dive site, a look through the
dive guide to give an idea of where to go, and then adventure awaits.

[image error]Spotted cleaner shrimp, photo credit Jason Buttenshaw

There is more to do than just diving on Bonaire; the island has plenty of other and activities if you are in need of a rest day. To the northern end of the island is the Washington Slagbaai national park, which you offers unique landscapes that look out of this world. Driving this national park is an adventure in itself. In the center of the island is the village of Rincon with its own rum distillery open to the public. At the southern tip of the island is the large bay of Lacbai, which is popular with the wind surfers and has relaxing beach bars. Then there is the city of Kralendijk which with the arrival of cruise ships offers lots of small boutique shops to meander and visit, and no trip to town can miss the ice cream shop “Gio’s Gelateria” in the center of town.

[image error]Green Moray Eel, photo credit Jason Buttenshaw

No matter your level of diving experience, a diving trip to Bonaire if you have not been, is well worth it, trust us, we will be heading back soon. The water is warm, visibility amazing, and the pace relaxed. So when you are ready for a new destination consider Bonaire, I can promise you won’t regret it.

Want to go on this adventure or others like it? Contact Jason at Fire Fighter Getaways or Mandy at Downunder Journeys and M&K Journeys for amazing experiences.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Mandy was my dive buddy in Vanuatu and she is a world class adventurer and travel planner! Click here to see some of our expeditions in Vanautu.

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Ms. Magazine: We Heart: These Seven Feminist Efforts to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

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Thank you to Ms. Magazine and Carmen Rios for publishing my article: “We Heart: These Seven Feminist Efforts to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030“



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Starting in 1990, The United Nations established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—measurable, universally-agreed objectives for tackling extreme poverty and hunger, preventing deadly diseases, preserving biodiversity and expanding primary education to all children.

By 2015, the global community had worked hard to make good on those commitments. More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. Child mortality dropped by more than half, as has the number of out of school children. HIV/AIDS infections fell by almost 40 percent.

But those MDG targets got us “halfway there”—and in 2015, 193 nations agreed to adopt 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to “finish the job” by 2030. The five critically important focus areas are people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership—with a need to tackle growing inequalities, empower women and girls and address the climate emergency.

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UN Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon called SDG 2030 “a roadmap to ending global poverty, building a life of dignity for all and leaving no one behind. It is also a clarion call to work in partnership and intensify efforts to share prosperity, empower people’s livelihoods, ensure peace and heal our planet for the benefit of this and future generations.” 

At the United Nations General Assembly 74 conference and the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Conference in New York City, advocates came together to assess progress on the SDG 2030 goals—and celebrate success stories like those made possibly by the following seven programs.

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“Ahlan Simsim”

There are over 31 million displaced refugee children who have lost family members, their homes, endured trauma and have no access to quality early learning. At Sesame Street, with support from the MacArthur Foundation and the LEGO Foundation, and working with International Rescue Committee (IRC), they created “Ahlan Simsim” specifically as a tool for the child and a catalyst for the adult affected by the Syrian conflict.

The show—“Welcome Sesame” in Arabic—is a brand new Arabic-language Sesame Street program designed to bring a playful learning experience to children across the Middle East and especially Syrian Refugees. It will be available in classrooms, health clinics and mobile devices to teach emotional skills and restore hope to these children in crisis. 

The stars, Basma and Jad, are not-quite-six-year-old purple-furred Muppet monsters who jump headfirst into new experiences. (I even got to meet Basma at the United Nations GA 74!) You can sign up for their humanitarian programs newsletter, donate to assist in their work and share the excitement for new programs being available to children in need.

The Rumie Initiative

Over half of the 1.8 billion school-aged children in the world lack access to a quality education and relevant, up-to-date learning resources. The Rumie Initiative takes the best learning content available online to remote, offline, and resource-constrained communities. The idea is to make e-learning accessible and supplement face-to-face traditional teaching methods, which are too often limited or even unavailable in remote and rural areas, with technology-based learning. The Rumie Solution has been implemented in partnership with local NGO’s in 29 countries and has impacted over 40,000 learners from preschoolers to secondary school students and even senior citizens. Through the Rumie LearnCloud, we can all empower learners around the world, without even leaving our homes. Everyone with a computer can participate by helping to build the LearnCloud’s crowdsourced collections of online learning materials.

IsraAID

This Israel-based international non-governmental organization has worked in emergency and long-term development settings in 51 countries since 2001. They partner with local communities around the world to provide urgent aid, assist recovery and reduce the risk of future disasters.

In 2018, teams responded to nine emergencies around the world, from flooding in south India to a volcanic eruption in Guatemala, hurricanes in the U.S. to an earthquake in Indonesia, providing 68,500 people with direct support to recover and restart—and IsraAID was awarded the National Integration Prize by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for their work with refugees.

You can participate by bringing IsraAID to your community through speaking and educational programming, joining IsraAID’s Professional and Volunteer networks, and/or by donating (one simple way to donate is by texting “IsraAID” to “44321”).

Diversability

According to the World Health Organization, “people with disabilities are among the most marginalized groups in the world.” There are over one billion people living with some form of disability.  

[image error]Tiffany Yu, Lisa Niver and Kristina Lutz at the
Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Conference at Lincoln Center

Tiffany Yu is currently 2019 California Miss Amazing Queen, serving as an ambassador for women & girls with disabilities, as well as the founder of both Diversability and the Disability chapter of Awesome Foundation.

You can sponsor a micro-grant at Awesome foundation or join an outing with diversability and change your corner of the world.

The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy

Kristina Lunz, co-founder of CFFP, explained that “feminist foreign policy is a framework which elevates the everyday lived experience of marginalized communities to the forefront and provides a broader and deeper analysis of global issues. There won’t be peace without feminism because research shows that the most significant factor towards whether a country is peaceful (SDG 16) within its borders or towards other countries is the level of gender equality (SDG 5) in a country.” Join her in their work to change the hierarchical global systems of power that have left millions of people in a perpetual state of vulnerability. 

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The Other Bar

Who came up with the great idea of promoting 50/50 value distribution and fighting deforestation by eating great chocolate? The answer is the FairChain Foundation, a Dutch organization which partnered with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to offer high quality, organic Ecuadorian chocolate (72 percent cacao, for the dark) and allow you to track where your chocolate came from and return some of the profit to the farmer who grew it. Each bar has what’s called a blockchain token inside that you can redeem to help a farmer buy more cocoa trees and you can see the exact GPS location of the cocoa tree your token buys.

Ten farmers are participating in the pilot project and 27,000 chocolate bars have been produced. If we can eat all that chocolate and invest those tokens, as many as 6.075 new cacao trees could be planted! This experiment in “Radical Equality” is equal value distribution between country of origin which produces the chocolate and country of consumption to reduce poverty. You can help even more by buying chocolate and making sure the farmers get more trees!

Clean the World Challenge

Hilton Hotels is marking their 100th anniversary by committing to cut their environmental footprint in half and double their investment in social impact projects by 2030—and as part of the Clean the World Challenge, they made a goal to collect bars of soap left behind by guests to be recycled into 2 million bars of new soap by Global Handwashing Day on Oct 15, 2020.

Clean the World Foundation, the world’s largest non-profit organization to recycle discarded hotel soap, will distribute the recycled soap to communities in need in 127 countries around the globe.

2 million bars of partially used hotel soap are thrown away every day in the United States. Because of Hilton’s contribution, 7.6 million bars of recycled soap have been distributed to communities in need across 127 countries over the past 10 years—diverting 2,274,303 pounds of soap and amenity bottle waste from landfills while reducing the death rate of children under the age of five dying due to hygiene-related illnesses by 60 percent and helping 180 people wash their hands.

The SDGs are universal goals focused on our urgent environmental, political and economic challenges. Each nation and each person can help make these goals a reality to build a more sustainable, safer, more prosperous planet for all humanity. What will you do to help us achieve the 17 SDGs by 2030?

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Have you ever been to the Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show? 2020

Do you love to travel? I found the perfect shirt, it says: “I followed my heart, it led me to the airport!”

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I am always ready to go to a new destination and discover what is different about it. I cannot wait to go to Mexico City for the first time and swim with whale sharks again and make my first visit to Brazil! I want to go to Iceland, Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica! Last year, I went to the Galapagos Islands for the first time and it was magical! Where do you want to go? Do you want to sail? hike? travel by train?

Meet me at the Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show to make your travel dreams come true!

Video 2020

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What can you discover at the Los Angeles Travel Show?

Plan your trip with a travel expertMeet travel celebrities Samantha Brown, Rick Steves, Peter Greenberg and Pauline FrommerImmerse yourself in faraway cultures with song and dance on the Global Beats StageDiscover over 350+ destinations from around the globeAttend dozens of educational seminars at the Savvy Traveler and Destination TheatersEnjoy fun for the whole family with virtual reality, zorb balls and SCUBA lessons in the dive pool



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VIDEO 2019: Visit the Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show with me.

What happened at the Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show in

2019: Where to Wander Next?

2018: Are You Wondering Where You Should Travel Next?

2017: Click here to see who I met!  What Inspires You To Travel?

2016: Savvy Travelers visit the Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show

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