MOSCOW, 29 Sep – RIA Novosti. In Australia, the locals are helping “stuck” in the country due to the closure of the borders to tourists, according to Lonely Planet.
Many travelers do not have time to return from Australia to your country before international flights were suspended due to a pandemic. They were without shelter and livelihood.
In late March, Miguel Enrique Fuentes, Filipino, living in Perth, and a tourist from the Netherlands Nikki Werd made in social networks with an appeal to local residents to take stranded travellers to my home, to provide them with a spare room in the house, if there is one, to share a place for camping in the garden and even help with work on the farm.
During the month the number of group members only in the state of Western Australia rose to 5.5 thousand. In other regions also appeared similar community. The hosts offer accommodation in exchange for help around the house, and tourists get a fee for the work.
Helen Hale, a nurse from Perth, was one of the first locals who took tourists. “I felt sorry for the travelers who were forced to put up a tent on the side of the road lived there without water, electricity and toilets,” she says. Helen invited them to his house. “Lucille, Pierre and Adrien installed in our backyard tent, live there and do some work on the site for a fee,” she said.
Debbie Noonan invited the tourists who failed to leave the campsite in the vineyards to remain free in his boarding house, which, after the start of the pandemic was empty.
“lucky for Us, helped us, provided accommodation in exchange for work on a farm where we cared for the kangaroo,” — noted American tourists mark Stansbury and Brian Bowman.
