Welcome!

Hi,

We’re two moms living in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re very excited to launch Little Passports!

It’s been a fun and challenging journey getting here. It seems like a very long time since we started with two concepts in hand. The first was that we both felt a deep and personal drive to help raise a generation of children who are more empathetic to people and cultures around the world. This has been a theme for us throughout our lives. We both have degrees in International Studies, have lived and worked in other countries and speak multiple languages. The second concept was a little less noble, but just as important to us. We remembered the joy we experienced as kids when we received personal mail. We wanted to find a way to deliver that same excitement, surprise and delight to children via good old snail mail.

Once we had our ideas in hand, we researched toy, entertainment and educational products available on the market. We were very surprised and disappointed at the lack of innovative and fun products that introduce children to the global world.

We then got to work on developing an early version of Little Passports that we tested with parents around the country. We were very encouraged by the reasons parents wanted their children to receive a Little Passports subscription and by how much they and their kids loved our product. Kids often told their parents that they felt like they had actually traveled to one of the countries in our trial. We received one particularly heartwarming story from a mother a few months after the trial ended. She wrote to tell us that as a result of our Japan mailing and the sushi eraser that came with it, she and her 6 year-old son were having conversations about Japan and Japanese food. Her son decided that he wanted to try sushi for the first time and they tried it that week. This is an example of the type of conversation, experience, and inspiration that we’re hoping to engender.

We realize we’re launching our company in the midst of a recession but we’re moving full steam ahead because we truly believe in our product and the impact we can have. We know that there’s a need for Little Passports and that kids will have a lot of fun along the way. We’re really looking forward to having children experience the countries our characters, Sam and Sofia, visit.

We appreciate all the people who have helped us along the way. Thank you so much. It was amazing to meet people who were inspired by our company and who introduced to their friends and their friends and their friends…We hope you’ll do the same and help spread the word about Little Passports by telling your friends and family.

We’ll try to update our blog regularly to let you know how things are going. We’re also interested in hearing your feedback and thoughts. Please send us email at: feedback@littlepassports.com.