Erin SchochJ.K Rowling Wants you to #VoluntourNoMoreOn August 21, 2016, J.K Rowling, author of the famed Harry Potter series, took to Twitter to share her disdain for...
Erin SchochAustralia: Fighting Against Orphan TraffickingIn Australia, it is considered a “rite of passage” to partake in orphanage volunteering. With a rise in orphanages across the world,...
Erin SchochThe Voluntourist Vacuum: How Organizations Suck in Unskilled Labor and Spit Out the ConsequencesBy: Tedi Beemer Michael Matheson Miller’s 2014 documentary Poverty, Inc. chronicles how local businesses in Haiti were crippled by NGO...
Erin SchochDefining Voluntourism and Identifying How to Spot itIt’s hard to believe anything referencing volunteering could be negative. However, volunteer tourism, often called voluntourism, is far...