Travel Bug Website and Fellowship

In light of the recent events in New York City, Washington D.C, Northern
Ireland, the Middle East and Afghanistan, it is even more apparent that
international travel is an important and vital tool for tolerance and
communication across all boundaries. We at My Travel Bug, Inc. hope you
share our belief that ours is a small world and we need to respect all
peoples and cultures in it.

MISSION STATEMENT
My Travel Bug, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that promotes the
innumerable educational benefits of international travel. We believe
international travel teaches tolerance, cross-cultural awareness and
communication skills, wisdom which cannot be learned in a classroom.
International travel is increasingly indispensable as the world's economies
merge and its cultures meet.

PROGRAMS

www.MyTravelBug.org
My Travel Bug, Inc. publishes a website of travelogues from around the
world. By collecting and publishing stories, pictures and audio of people's
travels as they occur, we educate and engage our readers in their quest to
learn more about our planet, the cultures of its peoples and the creatures
that inhabit it.

Travel Bug Fellowships
My Travel Bug, Inc. will be offering travel Fellowships, starting in the
Spring of 2002. These Fellowships provide stipends to top quality writers
for trips overseas for 1,2 or 3 months. Anyone over the age of 16,
regardless of race, gender or religion, may apply for a Travel Bug
Fellowship. The basic criteria are financial need, intellectual curiosity
and the ability to write clearly and honestly about your travels along the
way. These stories, pictures and audio will be published on our website.
Depending on fundraising efforts and annual budget, we hope to offer
Fellowships twice a year. (See Fellowship Application for more information.)

Educational CD-ROMs
In addition to the Fellowship Program, we plan to produce a multi-media CD
Rom each year incorporating the best writings of the website. Depending on
the yearly budget, CD's will also be distributed to public schools and
libraries for educational purposes.