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"I do not understand how you can ask people to fund your trip which is voluntary. If you don't have the resources to go, why did you volunteer? Why should strangers have to pay your way?"

Thanks for the question! I'm not asking anyone to pay my way... if you don't want to contribute -- please don't. I'm offering people the chance to support the cause that I believe so strongly in -- people give financial support to politicians all the time for campaigns, when that money typically goes toward negative campaigning and/or promoting the politician. Here's the chance for someone to support a very specific, very urgent cause by supporting this trip.

...and while I *do* have the resources to go, those who know me know that I've also worked for a nonprofit most of my working life -- a choice that I've made, and will gladly make again... and that I'm currently putting myself through graduate school along very similar lines as this training. So finances are tight for me.

Some people don't have the time to do this kind of training or don't have the time to learn about the issue of climate change -- thus, the opportunity to invest. Instead of thinking of it as a win/lose: "donor gives money, Tony gets money" it would be good to think about it as win/win/win resource sharing... "donor gives money, Tony gives time, world learns."

Does this answer your question?