MASSIVEGOOD enables travelers to make a micro-donation with a simple click every time they purchase a travel product. Your micro-donation is added to the price of your reservation. Our technology is fast, accurate and compliant with the most rigorous data security standards available for credit card transactions.  For customers, it’s safe, secure and meaningful. For businesses, it is easy to integrate and is a powerful way to show your company’s commitment to global health. Where can you give:

 

A video we made for our campaign with the Spanish Red Cross showing how to click

When you make a travel reservation in Spain, you can give on these sites at the end of the purchasing process: www.iberia.com, www.rumbo.es, www.viajar.com, www.halconviajes.com, www.rusticae.es,  www.viajesecuador.com and www.pepetravel.com. Before you click “confirm,” check MASSIVEGOOD and your donation is made!

 

In online portals such as www.barceloviajes.com  or www.viajeselcorteingles.es, the MASSIVEGOOD donation box is be located before or after the purchasing process, on their website, or on an e-mail confirmation. Clicking will direct you to our donation form, where you can make your contribution.

 

House of Travel

In the USA, MASSIVEGOOD is available in select travel agencies that use the following Global Distribution System (GDS): Amadeus, Sabre or Travelport. It is also available on Travelocity’s “Travel For Good” website, and on Accor Hotels’ online booking platforms. You can also give on www.iberia.com when booking a flight to Europe.

Check out a video (right) of a MASSIVEGOOD travel agency, the House of Travel in Aventura, Florida. Travel agents talk about how they are doing a little bit of GOOD every day and getting their business done.

You can make a direct donation on our website by clicking the DONATE tab.

MASSIVEGOOD works with the most respected global health organizations to ensure that your micro-donation matters. Individual micro-donations are combined for maximum impact to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Discover our current partners below:

In December 2010, MASSIVEGOOD launched the “Niños Sin Malaria” [Children Without Malaria] campaign with the Spanish Red Cross. From December 2010 until June 2011, Spanish travelers making reservations on our Spanish partner network of online ticketing agencies or over 3,000 travel agencies can give to support Red Cross projects to fight malaria in Gambia and Tanzania.

The Red Cross is combating malaria among children in the Upper River Region of Tanzania and in the Kigoma region in Tanzania. Malaria, transmitted through a mosquito bite, is the leading cause of infant mortality in these countries and kills over a million people a year. MASSIVEGOOD donors can help the Red Cross fight this disease in three crucial areas:

Testing: The Red Cross uses rapid diagnosis tests to detect the malaria parasite within 15 minutes, so treatment can be given to the child before it is too late

RDTs save time, so we can avoid complications to proceed with proper treatment as soon as possible. Before the use of RDTs, patients used to wait for a long time and we were only able to attend to a smaller quantity of people per day. Paul Magare, Red Cross Lab Assistant, Nyarugusu refugee camp

Treatment: Children infected with malaria are provided with ACTs, the most powerful malaria treatment available today, to ensure that a simple fever doesn’t become deadly

If the rapid diagnostic test is positive and the child shows symptoms of uncomplicated malaria, they will be given ACT treatment. If they have a complicated form of malaria, they will undergo a course of intravenous quinine. This strategy has saved many lives.
Dr. Ernest Athumani, Health Coordinator in Kigoma

Prevention: The Red Cross distributes long-lasting mosquito nets to families in affected areas and trains local health workers on how these “bed nets” can protect whole families from mosquitoes

I know it is very important to protect my child and prevent her from cold and mosquitoes. All members of my family, including my children, use mosquito bed nets and for that reason, malaria is not very common within my family members.Belinda Morris, Congolese Refugee, Nyarugusu camp

» Learn more about this campaign and where you can contribute at www.ninossinmalaria.org

 

When you give through our US partners or on this website, your micro-donation goes to UNITAID, an organization created in 2006 to increase access to treatments against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries.

Using market-based solutions to reduce prices of quality medicines and increase their availability in poor countries, UNITAID has achieved remarkable results in its short existence. Three out of four children on HIV treatment globally are able to survive thanks to UNITAID funds. Up until now, the bulk of UNITAID’s budget has come from a small tax on airline tickets in France, Chile, Norway, Korea and a growing number of African countries. Its operating costs are below 5% of expenditures and 94 countries receive UNITAID funding today.

 

“We need scientific and technologic innovation, such as new medicines and vaccines, but we also need innovative ways to ensure that scientific progress benefits those who need it. That's where UNITAID makes the difference.” Bill Gates, February 25th, 2008.

In addition to treating almost 300,000 children for HIV/AIDS, many HIV-positive mothers give birth to HIV-free children thanks to medication made affordable through UNITAID’s programs.

Test Kits: An HIV test kit for a pregnant woman costs one dollar and allows centers like the Hope Clinic in Uganda to provide treatments early enough for mothers to give birth to HIV-free babies

I was so hurt and worried about how I could tell my husband I was HIV-positive. I didn’t want to lose my baby. But a counselor told me how I could give birth to a healthy baby and continue my life with HIV treatment.
Jackie Ampire, patient at Hope Clinic Lukuli.

Treatment: With antiretroviral drugs, HIV-positive patients can go on living normal and productive lives. They can also be used to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

UNITAID funding allowed for the design and development of the new “Mother-Baby” pack, a color-coded kit to help HIV-positive pregnant women take the right combination of antiretroviral drugs to give birth to a healthy, HIV-free baby. It is currently being distrubted in Kenya by UNICEF so the more than half of Kenyan women who give birth at home can use the drugs and antibiotics in the box.

UNITAID is one of the world’s largest suppliers of tuberculosis medicines, providing key treatments to fight a disease that still kills almost two million people a year.

Providing a steady supply of treatments is a key element of the strategy to eliminate TB. A six-month program can cure tuberculosis. UNITAID supports a line of TB programs, in co-operation with the Stop TB Partnership, including the First line project to reduce the cost of TB drugs and increase their availability, the Scale-Up Program to increase access to the special treatment needed to fight drug-resistant TB and a program to triple the amount of drug-resistant cases that are diagnosed. Finally, the Support for Pediatric Tuberculosis Project produces child-friendly drugs that combine several treatments in one pill .

UNITAID has supplied over one million people with insecticide-treated bed nets to protect against malaria-carrying mosquitoes and over 45 million malaria “ACT” treatments have been distributed.

ACTs, or Artemisinin-based combination therapies, are the most effective drugs currently available for treating malaria. Artemisinin, or “sweet wormwood” has been used by traditional Chinese herbalists for over 2,000 years and it has proven to be the most powerful treatment today for malaria around the world.

Meanwhile, long-lasting mosquito bed nets can protect entire families at night from mosquito bites. Only $10, bed nets are the most effective prevention against malaria available.

 

UNITAID channels its funds through partners active in the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis to achieve the most effective results. As of the beginning of 2011, UNITAID's active partners included The William J. Clinton Foundation, HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNICEF, World Health Organization and other organizations.

 

There are many innovative ways to do good today. The “social web” provides new tools to raise awareness and funding for pressing issues, both local and global. Meanwhile, “crowd-sourcing” – leveraging the power of many through today’s web technologies – can accomplish huge tasks with small acts.

MASSIVEGOOD was born in this context– and the travel industry offers a fantastic channel. After all, the travel industry generates almost one out of every ten dollars spent in the global economy. Every year one billion people fly. Responsible and sustainable tourism is a “must” for professionals in the industry today and the commitments we’ve received prove it.

But challenges remain. Governments are hard-pressed to raise additional funds for global health and the ongoing economic crisis continues to pressure developing countries. Poor health also hurts growing economies. According to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, malaria is responsible for a “growth penalty” of up to 1.3% per year in some African countries. About 70% of TB patients in India are between ages 15 -54. Other numbers speak for themselves

Every 45 seconds a child dies of malaria. Only $10 can provide a mosquito bed net to protect an entire family

• About one million people die of malaria each year, 90% of them in Africa
• 85% of all deaths are children under five years old

 

Every 15 seconds someone dies of tuberculosis. $20 can cure it.

• Each year over nine million people become ill with TB and nearly two million people die
• Eight million people will die of TB by 2015 without more funding

 

Every 13 seconds someone dies of HIV/AIDS. $100 can buy child-friendly treatment for a year

• There are 33.3 million people living with HIV. Of these, 10 million still don’t have access to treatment that can help them live healthy lives.
• An estimated 370,000 children were newly infected with HIV in 2009, the vast majority of them through their mother

MASSIVEGOOD responds to these challenges while taking advantage of today’s technological opportunities. We hope to give those who so desire an easy and accessible platform with which to do a little bit of good during their day.