In a recent survey, 71 percent of this magazine's readers said they want hotels to support local health programs. From Vietnam to Dominica to South Africa, these companies are doing just that, running clinics and helping ensure that the neighbors are well fed

Buffalo Tours
Keep Your Children Well
tran trong kien trained as a doctor before he launched Buffalo Tours to serve Vietnam's emerging, and more lucrative, tourism industry. But he didn't leave behind his concern for public health. Thirteen years later, his company—which brings 16,000 travelers to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos annually—has virtually adopted the 43 children of Hanoi's Binh Luc Orphanage, where it sponsors a nutritional program that's monitored three times a month with height and weight checks. On occasion, the company even brings tourists to help prepare the meals. "When I first visited, the children had yellow eyes and little confidence," says Kien. "Now they are more cheeky, and their schoolwork has improved." Buffalo Tours also funds a rehab center for victims of Agent Orange, which was used by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, and hosts doctors who treat patients in the Mai Chau Valley, where the company has built wells and waste systems for ethnic-minority villages.

Jungle Bay Resort & Spa
Caring For The Disabled
The Dominica resort has given more than $22,000 to the House of Hope, a local orphanage and residential care facility for the physically and mentally disabled.

Spier
Fighting HIV/AIDS
This hotel and winemaking estate outside Cape Town runs an HIV/AIDS peer education program among employees, offers free condoms and testing, and supports hospices and day care services for afflicted children.

Tswalu Kalahari Reserve
Combatting TB And Hunger
The reserve maintains a clinic that's open to all Tswalu workers as well as members of the local community, and its War Against Malnutrition, Tuberculosis, and Hunger program helps staff build their own produce gardens and supplies nutritional supplements.