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Trustroots Stories and News April Edition
Contents:*Experiences is Launched!*HospEx Summit May 8th*Meet the Member*Say Hello to Warmshowers Refugees*On the Road as a Hobo for 14 Years*Bea’s Journey into the Multiverse*A Photo Says More Than A Thousand Words*How to Write a Hosting Request!*Relevant Links Now you can Share an Experience about anyone on Trustroots Experiences is launched! What is experiences? It is…
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Trustroots Can Now Be Translated
Hallo, Hola, Hello, Salut, Ciao, There’s a lot going on behind the screens, and we have volunteers working on different fields to improve our platform. One of those fields is translating Trustroots to multiple languages, and we’re happy to say we’re releasing translated Trustroots in five of those languages! From this day forward, you can…
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Trustroots Travel Stories and News February 2021
Greetings Trustrooters and readers! Hoping you and anyone you are with are well in this unique time in human history. As the pandemic continues to encourage governments to close borders, impose lockdowns, curfews, and other restrictions, it is good to remember that it will be over soon enough. Vaccines will be more readily available, borders…
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Trustroots Changelog — December/January
Let’s see if this becomes a habit, but the idea is to highlight all the small improvements and continuous efforts that go on Trustroots, thanks to all our volunteers! 👏 The search got a bigger upgrade under the hood — it’s now smoother and faster, especially on mobile. Visuals got refreshed a bit, but primarily…
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Trustroots Travel Stories and Latest News
Greetings Trustrooters! Happy Winter if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere or Summer if you’re in the Southern. The world continues to change and shift everyday, and we sincerely wish you are doing well in the midst of everything, and that you are able to experience some joy and love in the midst of it all. …
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The challenges of diversity
How to not get into a situation where you are surprised to be in a flat of paleo-nudists who asks you to be nude and only eat meat
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Decolonising Into Circles
You might be wondering why Trustroots is changing the name of Tribes. In this collaborative article we will try to explain what’s behind the change and why this matters. It has mainly been written by Mariyano, a Brazilian backpacker currently under lockdown in Buenos Aires due to the pandemic, and Martin A. who spent a…
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Journeys Through the Night
Community Stories, Vol. II Welcome to the second part of our community letter to ourselves! In case you missed the first one with Covid-19 lockdown experiences, you can find it here. This time around we are travelling through the night – sleeping at police stations in Pristina, trainhopping to escape from where nobody stops for…
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How is Trustroots different from Couchsurfing?
The elephant in the room Couchsurfing, the largest hospitality exchange network has announced on the 14th of May, that they will be requiring many of their users to pay a monthly subscription. Since Trustroots is also enabling hospitality exchange, this is very relevant to us. While Couchsurfing hasn’t claimed to be a charity or a…
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Covered in covids
Dear friend, you are looking at the first letter from the Trustroots community to itself. I hope it finds you in good health during this time of plague and forced sedentariness. This letter, and the ones that will hopefully follow every two or three months, is about stories. I want to tell you of some…
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Spring Hackweek
With a pandemic rolling over Europe and borders being closed, it might not be the time for traveling right now. But we think it’s a good time for working on a traveler’s network and pushing it to the next level. So, we didn’t cancel our hackweek that we were looking forward to. Instead, we’re doing…
Travellers' community for sharing, hosting and getting people together.
