-J.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 voluntourism--especial...
-Australia: 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, Aust...
-Cambodia: Exploiting Children for VolunteersChan, a nine-year-old, was forced to sing and dance for volunteers who visited her orphanage. She, along with the other children who call...
-Who Are You Really Helping?“It is incredibly unfair for you to impose yourselves on a village where you are so linguistically deaf and dumb that you don’t even unde...
-The 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 in...
-Defining 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 f...
