WiserEarth Editors

My name is Kareen Eilon Kohn, I was born in Jerusalem, Israel in June 1973.
Traveling has been a way of life for me since birth, son of an eye Surgeon and an eccentric artist. I grew up in transition through several countries, I had my primary education in 17 schools in different countries, which has allowed me to learn several languages. Once I was growing my thirst for travel only increased, at 17 years I went to New York where he started working with technology, working toward the goal of being able to invest in ongoing experiences. For years as the most eager travelers moving between hotels, restaurants and buses, I lived to travel, and gradually sought to extend my travel time until I became a nomad. In 1998 I had the idea of crossing through the borderline between Ecuador and Peru. I inspired another 3, that trip change my life radically.

The following year I met a group of people from all around the world in India, and managed to inspire a dream in them. That dream that beats in the deepest part of my being became my real every day life, where the thirst for knowing more of this amazing world in a more natural way and work toward offering an alternative towards harmonious living. Over the years I continued to inspired hundreds of people to adopt a new way of life, and to live a transforming, profound and truly free experience.

Within time a whole movement had been born, traveling on horses, with a multicultural peace loving tribe, loving and living with animals and open to nature.
I usually negotiate, train, evaluate, cure and horseshoe the horses. Raise funds, design the cargo and saddle bags, the web pages, coordinate the performances and activities.
Navigate through the mountains, locate and evaluate camp sites. Cook, serve, train and above all to help maintain harmony and discipline among a group of people around the world traveling through the most inaccessible areas, with 20-30 horses with a very limited budget.
Admist the challenge I managed to advance with faith and determination for the past 9 years, I have a lot of energy, which I channel into this movement, as I witness the profound changes that it has generated in me and in through each person it has touched.

Nomads United born committed to providing a change, an alternative to conventional modern travel, through a system of community journeys on horseback, a life more united to nature, through places where there still are stars that guide us, a life in the sun and often not on the clock, where we can live in the natural rhythm with the challenges that the same creator has determined. And after 9 years have passed hundreds of people of more than 35 nationalities have experienced a radical transformation and increased empathy for nature and other creatures. We travel with our horses, eat vegetarian food, and play music from around the world, dance with fire, we share what we have, camp under different landscapes and we take the time to know the places and people and their remote spaces, we exchange our knowledge and experience with the various local traditions and revere our Mother Nature with all the strength of our spirit, which we are trying to protect through our messages and actions.

In Peru after seeing the state of polluted rivers, where we usually would camp.
We started to talk with children and adults on this problem, we realized that we had a lot of power to influence, so we assume this as a responsibility and organically deepened the focus of our intentions, as to create positive changes in the places where we were going. We started to create workshops and using our skills to encourage and inspire change.

Today, our activities seek to discover new horizons, merging art, science and adventure, appealing not only to knowledge but to the emotions, both in environmental education implemented several artistic and cognitive skills, as well as in our reforestation inviting participants camp in paradisiacal places, experiencing a way of more sustainable, planting trees and all this combined with artistic workshops and ecological activities.

Vision in Action, We see it as a new identity that migrates into exodus towards a more natural world, a time when we need a drastic change in our way of life in order to reverse the process of environmental degradation and cultural homogenization.

The movement began as a romantic dream, though within time it became the biggest and most culturally diverse horse caravan on the planet. It proves how a group of people from all over the world, Arabs, Jews, Europeans, Americans, etc, could can be united with a common intention, beyond the differences of races or beliefs. Not as an expedition, tour or competition but as a system of nomadic organic communal life.

9 years have past since its birth and the movement continues growing and touching more remote villages, seeking to open the doors to change through reason and compassion, art and science, so that we can attempt to see beyond the spaces that separates to us, harmonize humans among the animals and the Earth.

We go one organic step at a time, we organize events that are a mixture of ethnic music and dances rescued from several countries, like Arab, African, Flamenco, dancers with fire torches, acrobatics with horses, clowns and everything to spark a festival of planetary sensations. The latest caravan began in Costa Rica in March of 2004, and it's already more than 3 years since the caravan took on crossing rural Central America , stopping town by town, village by village bringing the message of peace and ecology.

In our NGO, we seek to ensure that the members have the opportunity to actually live in coherence with the organizations vision of sustainability so that the experience of living these values gives them confidence when giving this message. This organization proposes a continually evolving process of integrating other NGO's in order to generate a successful wave of action for creating greener world.