This Photo Friday, we want to acknowledge how grateful we are to be in the travel business. And that gratitude is best expressed by supporting the people we've visited and the places we love.

The Bodhi Tree Foundation was established to do just that. The foundation aims to enlist the support of socially responsible travel providers and compassionate travelers, and harness their significant resources to help fund charities that promote education, healthcare, environmental initiatives, historic preservation and economic development in underserved areas around the world.

Photo descriptions are online, or see highlights after the jump!

FXB International was established in 1995 in the wake of the AIDS pandemic and devastation from the genocide to provide support to families and communities faced with the challenges of caring for thousands of orphans and vulnerable children left homeless.

Visit www.fxb.org or click here.

Fundacion Haciendas Del Mundo Maya was established to rebuild highly marginalized indigenous communities in the Yucatan Peninsula by developing and implementing social projects based on five areas: health, education, housing, environmental and productive projects.

Visit www.haciendasmundomaya.com or click here.

The African Wildlife Foundation provides support to the people of Africa to ensure protection of the continent’s wildlife and wild lands. The Foundation is funding conservation efforts directed at the endangered black rhino population of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. 

Visit www.awf.org or click here.

Banteay Meanchey boy with looted beads, courtesy of Heritage Watch in Cambodia. Heritage Watch is dedicated to protecting Cambodia’s cultural treasures by working to prevent the looting and illicit trade of antiquities while promoting responsible, sustainable tourism and economic development.

Visit www.heritagewatchinternational.org or click here.

The Southern Environmental Association in Belize (SEA Belize) works toward improving stewardship and the environmental integrity of key marine areas in southern Belize, including the Belize Barrier Reef System, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the second-largest coral reef in the world.

Visit www.seabelize.org or click here.

The Bodhi Tree Foundation is proud to be working with The Spirit of Big Five Foundation to support Edeyo in their effort to rebuild Haiti. The mission of The Edeyo Foundation has been to rebuild Haiti from the ground up, to educate and empower a new generation of Haitians. 

Visit www.edeyo.org or click here.