J.K Rowling Wants you to #VoluntourNoMore
On August 21, 2016, J.K Rowling, author of the famed Harry Potter series, took to Twitter to share her disdain for...
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Australia: Fighting Against Orphan Trafficking
In Australia, it is considered a “rite of passage” to partake in orphanage volunteering. With a rise in orphanages across the world,...
Cambodia: Exploiting Children for Volunteers
Chan, a nine-year-old, was forced to sing and dance for volunteers who visited her orphanage. She, along with the other children who...
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...
The Voluntourist Vacuum: How Organizations Suck in Unskilled Labor and Spit Out the Consequences
By: Tedi Beemer Michael Matheson Miller’s 2014 documentary Poverty, Inc. chronicles how local businesses in Haiti were crippled by NGO...
Defining Voluntourism and Identifying How to Spot it
It’s hard to believe anything referencing volunteering could be negative. However, volunteer tourism, often called voluntourism, is far...