About VolunTours | Brief History

Cause and Effect
VolunTours™ began as the vision of three cause marketing professionals interested in creating a cause and partnership marketing initiative for the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau. The original mission was to organize the social infrastructure of the San Diego/Baja Border region to create meaningful travel experiences "exploration with inspiration" for inbound leisure and business travelers.

What has evolved is a new home for VolunTours™ in the San Diego/Baja region - Los Niños. With 25 years of experience in delivering meaningful travel expeditions and service learning opportunities to students across North America, Los Niños has become an amazing new home for the continuing development of VolunTours™.

Service Learning - A Form of VolunTourism
VolunTours™ became a program of Los Niños, Inc., in the Summer of 2002. For more than 30 years, Los Niños has been recognized as a leader in Service Learning - the combination of Education and Community Service - for high school, junior college, college, and university students throughout North America.

But how does the Service Learning Program of Los Niños connect with VolunTours™?

The inclusion of VolunTours™ will assist Los Niños in creating short-term, day-long, multi-day, and week-long "Service Learning" experiences for professionals, families, alumni, educators, and researchers from around the world interested in the dynamics of the San Diego/Baja Border Region. These offerings will also benefit alumni of the Los Niños Service Learning Program as they look to expose members of their family as well as friends and business associates to the amazing opportunities to give back in the Border Region.