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 SchochCambodia: 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...
Erin SchochWho 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...
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...
