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'Travelling to rural India to see the water taps we funded was powerful and emotional'

India
Katherine Masters
17 March 2026

'As an industry, we’ve got to continuously ask ourselves, what are we giving back?', says Newmarket Holidays' Rasme Ozdemir, after visiting a Just a Drop project co-funded by the operator

Daha village
© Newmarket Holidays

One of the new taps that have been life-changing for the Indian village of Daha © Newmarket Holidays

It’s a wonderful thing when the simple pleasure of organising a bake sale with your colleagues can lead to life-changing developments for a rural village in India. When a Christmas raffle can help give 300 villagers access to running water they can use to drink, wash, cook and clean with.  


Rasme Ozdemir, head of service delivery and responsibility at Newmarket Holidays, has been a witness to this, through the fundraising that the escorted tours operator has been doing in partnership with charity Just a Drop.