Kimberly Kaplan
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Conscious Travel- Embracing all involved
During a vacation in Peru, Kimberly Kaplan was touched by the courage and genuine smiles of the children she encountered in the high Andes, despite lives of extreme poverty and hardship. Called by both their plight and their potential, she reached out to her community in St. Louis to help her establish a non-profit organization to raise funds and bring awareness to those orphaned and impoverished children. The Sacred Valley Initiative was born, taking its name from the Andean heartland.